Excise Exercise 2: In a Wasteland
...Excise Exercise 2:
In a wasteland
decision is a choice.
Faced with Life or Death
makes progress clear-
What are the options?
Face the Fear of both.
One brutal truth.
Find love's surviva...
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Categories:
tuareg, courage, endurance, faith,
Form: Free verse
Wanderer
...Wanderer,
free spirit,
gets around the endless world,
he relentlessly seeks happiness.
Open your eyes
encounter an aurora borealis
simple to perfection,
like a lost Eskimo
or as a Buddhist mo...
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Categories:
tuareg, africa, beauty, happiness, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Who Am I
...Who am I?
I am a lion who comes out as a goat
I am an ocean with waves big enough to drown
I am a child of Mesopotamia
A descendant of Shaka Zulu
Baptized in the Nile
I depict the sword of M...
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Categories:
tuareg, absence, adventure, africa, anger,
Form: Free verse
The Al-Andalus Quartet: Part One
...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
tur...
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Categories:
tuareg, christian, history, islamic,
Form: Free verse
To Wait For You To Come
...i love you
and i want you to be here
what will the Tuareg do
without the desert
that furrows
behind a dark burnous
his thigh – his
pinched by the caresses
of the vulture
what will he do
wit...
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Categories:
tuareg, deep, love,
Form: Free verse
Sandstorm
...You came into my life
My Tuareg of the desert
Brought to me by the winds of fate
To fill the emptiness within
Nature played her part, bringing us together
Raising a sandstorm shielding us from othe...
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Categories:
tuareg, desire, love,
Form: Verse
In My Second Childhood
...Hold the trod, limit the space
The offspring's of Tuareg Cowhead cut my heels
The breaks on the hind been slammed
I break to a halt, he breaks to a sprint
Wagere, if you skip by the race
Render it ba...
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Categories:
tuareg, loneliness, poverty, , Lullaby,
Form: Blank verse