Fantastic Journey
...It was a quaint little shop
Looking strangely out of place
And the owner was a hermit
With a crinkled young old face.
He was a man of distinction
Of health hearty and hale,
Had looked a Haggi...
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Categories:
samarkand, adventure, fantasy, journey, magic,
Form: Rhyme
When Savages Sang Strongly 4
...Sometimes faith lives on the edge of a knife
as Sviastoslav the Rus sacker came to know
the Khazar Khanate knew how to cut a slight
his gilded skull stole the show,
the Vatican went from a marsh...
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Categories:
samarkand, heart,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
The Lawns of Paradise
...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 m...
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Categories:
samarkand, city, memory, romantic,
Form: Imagism
Caravan
...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...
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Categories:
samarkand, journey, life, silence, time,
Form: Free verse
The Ruba'Iyat of Creteil Lake - Part Nineteen
...The Ruba’iyat of Créteil Lake – Part Nineteen
“Not that I had not spied your tulip-lipped doting jasmine airs
Nor the way your wraith-like form take me back to sumptuous fairs
Of Samarkand yore ...
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Categories:
samarkand, allegory,
Form: Rubaiyat
Winter's Xanadu
...WINTER’S XANADU
Boreal Venice with canals of ice
Built on frozen rock and sand
Of the Pleasure Dome, we have a slice.
Spires of gilt and bridges a thousand
City of gold from Russia’s ...
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Categories:
samarkand, urban, city, river,
Form: Sonnet
The Prince of the East Wind
...The bringer of rain......
The bringer of typhoon........
Eastern moon...........
Arriving soon..............
The lover of symbols and numbers
Gold too..............
Awaking the Princess...
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Categories:
samarkand, imagination, inspirational, passion, uplifting,
Form: Ballad