Long Sirocco Poems

"White Noise and the Mother Load of Dark Matter" 

underneath the static
what exists 
is never seen nor heard

for what it truly is 
the eyes and mind 
retaliate in the deciphering

the invisible return 
each night and...

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The Scene: 
An explosion! 
From those picking.. limbs tear
cabbages and cucumbers  
combing children's hair
mixing with the backseat 
of a zealot's Mercedes Benz
the gunpowder,  smells of lamb, 
and cotton, all blend 
into a bitter,...

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I was born in the African horn,
In a village, that was always warn torn,
Tired of my life, on a gloomy morn,
I took that fateful decision alone.

Without telling my loving family,
I left them behind, sleeping happily,
I...

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Resting in Benign Pleasure
By Sy Roth 

They watched me, 
Waiting for a segue.
Continuously gazing at me 
A waxen bowl of fruit
Tantalizing, 
Clinging to my every move
Like lichen on the leeward side of an ancient oak,
Like...

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THE AL-ANDALUS QUARTET

THE AL-ANDALUS QUARTET: PART ONE
GIBRALTAR / DJEBEL-TARIQ   711 AD / 92 AH

In the eyes of the hawk
Djebel Musa to Djebel Tariq
is the tactical distance across the
turbulent waters where the blue
Mediterranean meets...

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Frozen in time-2

I remember,
not so long ago
Sirocco winds,
would blow,
igniting our 
passions embers,
who could 
contemplate September.

Then the leaves 
changed their hue
as did your complexion
Hindsight, 
illuminates my mind 
with perfect 
20/20 reflection

My jokes 
lost their appeal
your smile...

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Spirit of the night
  Spirit of the night soil man
  Spirit of the night soil man is awake
  Spirit of the night soil man is abroad,
  Here, the emerging mystery, more...

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Find you

When you look so hard
but you cant find...
Even though you see, but
you feel so blind...

And sadness darkens
each new born day...
And you feel you've
finally lost your way...

So,
you look to the stars
to lead you home
but, you...

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Grief lasts for a little while.
Its hurt does beguile.
Nightmare’s fog released, ‘where am I’
A torrential fracture of the sky.

Indeed the steps, you can’t deny,
as you’re not ready to say goodbye.
You still feel the hand you...

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Voyagers, convene thyselves to return, among us...
Caesura, crown nigh clod, a sylph unwept,
elision thy silhouette, meno thy minuet...
Thine late occurence on thee, wake of cerise sand

Thou belief, like a billow, upon your whitish cheek,
'Twas marina...

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I’m sitting on my lawn chair
Outside the night is cool
I hear the trees swaying
The breeze chills my skin
It knocks on my hippocampus  
Am I here or where it blows?
Breeze, you are timeless
From queens to...

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I just cannot lie

I reach for the sky, 

I am like a falcon

Spreading my wings wide, 

Soaring through the clouds

Weaving in and out of verdant trees, 

Looking down at the ant like people beneath me...

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The Naked Truth

He stands before you butt assed naked
Stripped of all preconceptions, false assertion or allusions
All that he once convinced himself to be true
Now lies before him in a dark, dank, putrid puddle.
Who he once...

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A heart quite overpoured is mine.
It replicates the breath
inspiring purity and art
with just a piquancy of lust,
expiring endings of romance
and promises, 
of wisdom in the dance
that holds decorum back
and celebrates the wilds
of fancy, balanced by
excursions...

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Kv

I have my friend .She is such a divine.
Left my hands in thunders of  life for crying.
Faked it all ,and i never cared for trying.
Trust was broken and draught even dried .
Long talks were...

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Three sister winds,
Ephemeral progeny,
Spawned by the sun's relentless
But passionless heat,
And the earth's inexorable
Grinding rotation:
Sirocco dances across the vast emptiness of the Sahara;
Mistral roams over the rolling plains and briny lagoons
Of the French Camargue;
Santa Ana, mistress...

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Now comes the wind,
   stealth like creeper whispering
   venting in the shadowy image of the trees.
A calm soft breeze easing in at first,
   a sojourner on the bland gray...

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Your swell appetite for tobacco 
Is a sure life-time divider;
Of winds making her a sirocco,
Even as she stops being your provider …

Softening and calmer, asks you aside
And entreats you to her sit beside
For a voicing...

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PAIN                
I HAVE NEVER DREAMT OF
THIS WILL BE MY 
FATE.
THE THINGS ARE TURNING 
INTO SIROCCO OF LIFE 
AGAIN AND AGAIN.

THE...

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Gypsy winds, wind their way
across deserts and plains;
whip the tumbleweeds and 
sands into a frenzy.

Nomad scorpions roam dunes alone,
burrowing deep, to escape 
a tempestuous sirocco.

In lonely places cacti sentinels 
stand vigilant day and night; 
the...

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Carried away on a summer breeze

riding the current of a Sirocco wind

floating on clouds with grace and ease

summer time always carries me away.



Summer breeze against my face

summer breeze I love these bright days

feeling the wind...

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As the screaming Sirocco swept the sands,
Suffocating the Shiekh's Sixth Sick Sheep,
It's sister, Simoon, soon sought to strike
The sweat-suffering Sultan's sweet sleep.
Then came the Khamsin, and  Calima, too,
- Dust-devils, Diabolos, Lavaan, Loo!

Angered, Aeolos, King...

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A question like a ramrod
Could an interviewee hit like rod:
For The Recklessly Unprepared 
And the sure disaster prepaid…

As question waits for the rare gem,
Heard slight noises a big problem,
The smashed fist on his face Emblem,...

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Lute

Curved, inviting, light,
it has the look of antique ships,
a galleon bulge of straight-grained woods.
Fretful cat-gut cords
coiled taut by silver screws
above the calibrated neck
conceal a thousand foot-pound pirouette.
Child of Sirocco and Spain,
veils, fans, brocade, and lace,
olive,...

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summer winds

arid whirlwinds spin
 spread scent of dried pine needles ~
  forest pursues rain

sirocco mistrals
 winds gusts wither tumbleweeds ~
  summer heat shivers

parched solstice tempests
 leave stale breaths of dusty thirst ~
 ...

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