Long Silk road Poems

Diary Notes: Lamentable laissez-faire

                     …the lêche cul is
back
       ...

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Columbus in the New World

Three ships sailed under Spanish colours
(The Santa Maria, Niña, and La Pinta)
And dropped anchor off the shores of San Salvador,
For Columbus and his crew manning the oars
To set foot on terra...

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The sand is stained red
with our bygone blood,
the blood that brought us from Ararat to the Alti,
a tribe trekking intrepidly through the Eurasian terrain,
caravans of Caucasians clad with Celtic tartan twills
plaids upon the pale horse...

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This town, this Silk Road had no toll to pay
  yet from the east caravans again fill its
pharaonic marble and glass temples. Monolith

malls rise its clefts, eco-wilderness morph
  into multiplex cinemas; mini golf...

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I have waited for the New Age--that Tranelike return to my Mediterranean Sundance Always and Forever missing the  journey of the Caravansary of old.
Hence, Only Time and the touch of the Rio Ancho, its...

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Alright have to admit that whole drole Bazball or Baz Bat cool cat vibe…rabbit out of hat tribe.. is taking its toll..sunk in a hole..losing it’s goal and soul..not being a vitriol troll..maybe need to...

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The clocks upon the wall are stopped,
they haven’t worked for years.
It could be any time in Tokyo, 
in London, Paris or New York.

It’s late, and deadlines, met or missed, 
are past. The news is done,...

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Stone elongated nearly 4 thousand miles,
across the country of china, smiles.
The 16th century would see many small,
fortifications become a great wall.
The long wall's surface area is massive,
thus far, nothing man made has surpassed it.
Born of...

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Another day has passed and here I am sitting in the dark waiting for you to come to reminiscence with me in the wavering sun. Days have passed and I have watched evenings melting in...

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[ credits to LAURENT YVAN from France who read my poem ]



Launched over ages of primaeval forces
my nomadic ancestry calls out to me
winds howl driven over rolling hills
atop a ridge of rugged mountains
beyond vestiges of...

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Jesus Christ Be Praised
By Roy Merritt

He went to see the queen of Spain told her the world was round
That he could get to the east going west that’s what he had found
He told her if...

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In the vast field of beings, some are stars casting kindness,
Somehow born with a mirage that drips mercy of its own accord.
They traverse valleys and deserts, spreading, unwavering, their pure essence,
While others, with kindness held...

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Bullet between the eyes, graveyard of dreams, demise. 
Running bloodily through the fields 
As the poppies to opium, they do give yield 
Out on the fields with the mujahideens 
Praying to an empty sky, drinking...

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Pro-Xi the Showman
has a jolly roger soul
With a corncrack pipe and a Vuitton clothes
and two eyes made from Sheol 
Pro-XiPing the showman is a hairy fail they say
He was made of nose but the children
know...

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The snow fell lightly facing Tehran the stars all seemed to glow over the Capsien Sea from a heated Indian Ocean beholder of the Black Sea we hadn't battled cold like this an yet a...

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(Transit Lounge, Dubai International Airport, circa 2007)


He answered
that he was from far Kazakhstan, 
“Exotic place,” he added,
which I know but could not pinpoint 
on my mental map.

She smiled
and said, “I am from India somewhere
farther to...

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The Black Death
It came without warning, it swept through the town
One day you were up, the next day you’re down
It came to the poor, it came to the rich
You might feel the bite, you might...

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Marvels of the World I wrote.
Fantina, Bellela and Moretta will gloat.
These are my three daughters who kept me afloat.
They never did accompany me on travels or boat. 

I saw the Mongol Empire and China too.
Recorded...

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cyberpork
a found poem using contemporary computer slang


sludge solution
grok it
nerf sword nerf herder
sock puppet astroturf
bluesnarf
cupertinoeffect 
the crawling horror 
conscious agents 
of our own delight and distraction
streisand effect
do not feed the troll

geoswag 
geocacher geonick geocache
muggle
typosquat
egosurf snowclone
infovore, digerati,...

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Der Spiegel 

In Kashgar, where the Silk Road begins
I bought an apricot and saw a young 
Fidel Castro on a bike 
The woman who sold the fruit wore 
a red shawl over her shiny black...

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Der Spiegel 

In Kashgar, where the Silk Road begins
I bought an apricot and saw a young 
Fidel Castro on a bike 
The woman who sold the fruit wore 
a red shawl over her shiny black...

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Der Spiegel In Kashgar

Where the Silk Road begins, I bought an apricot
saw a young Fidel Castro on a bike
The woman who sold the fruit wore a red shawl
over her shiny black hair knotted under her...

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THE LAWNS OF PARADISE



Dim road in Moscow’s winter taxi.
Maybe our Uzbek driver’s memory 
Drifts  to Bukhara,Samarkand and Tashkent: 
The shifting sands  and the caravan’s load,
Blue-gold minarets, mosaic tiled rooms,
Sunny desert oases  along...

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I’m still in Cascais
Waiting to go home to my house in Algarve
30 years since the Berlin wall came down with the help
Of Russia let us not forget this.
In the meantime, many more walls have been...

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In the shimm’ring empty distance
Of a vast central Asian steppe,
A faint and formless shape appeared.
A soundless mass of black and brown
Rose like a djinn from out the dust
Of the long traveled Great Silk Road.

As it...

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