I Do Not Mind Waiting
...they look unassuming and gentle
I know better, for they are not ripe
if I eat one now my mouth will pucker
the bitterness will leave a horrible aftertaste
in a few days, these persimmons will c...
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Categories:
tangier, food,
Form: Light Verse
You'Ve Been Betrayed
..."Come with me on a rousing escapade!"
How temptingly he'd whispered in my ear.
"My dear, I promise there's nothing to fear."
How easily he'd managed to persuade
me. Then secretively, his ...
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Categories:
tangier, betrayal,
Form: Other
Hearts Embrace Witness-
...I saw her first
She is my heart
Her aroma her natural scented burst
My nostrils
I hear her faint Whispers
So tangier so tangent
I listen with my ear
Her mind so sincere
I taste he...
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Categories:
tangier, analogy, appreciation, heart, i
Form: Rhyme
Barefoot Buccaneer
...Bronwyn the Barbaric was a buxom lass
the envy of all her peers
She spoke with unrivaled swashbuckling sass
her pirate-ess fashion was fierce
She could charm off the arms of the most hardened m...
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Categories:
tangier, fantasy, fashion, funny, humor,
Form: Rhyme
The End of Islam
...THE END OF ISLAM
On the bay beach at Belyounech
Just east of Tangier
From the old whaling Station
You can see Algeciras and Gibraltar
And there on the beach look up
And see the Rif of t...
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Categories:
tangier, imagery, metaphor,
Form: Imagism
Reflecting On Police Brutality
...It was the spring of ‘74 when my student peers and I
were on the tail end of a group excursion
through southern Spain, across Gibraltar’s Strait
and into the exotic northern tip of Africa.
I re...
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Categories:
tangier, violence, prejudice,
Form: Prose