Haiku… George & Osama
“Osama… meet George… Here’s bread and water to eat the rest of your days…” I’m frankly a bit obsessed. The “Islamic Haiku” I’v…
New Haiku on DeenPort 1/11/07
We burn the town down… then we send in more fire trucks to patrol the smoke? It’s the morning after The Decider’s decision to…
Today’s Islamic Haiku on DeenPort
Democrats cowards… Republicans criminals… I watch the sparrows… This is a traditiona…
Ghazal on the Prophet, peace be upon him
The Prophet Muhammad walked in – his face a moon – his head represented by God’s fla…
Oh Allah!
A tree in the woods beyond earshot of any cried Oh Allah! Two bits of star debris in space began to collide – Oh…
War Poem in our Time of Madness
At the hour when it seems we’re about to send more troops to die, and the madmen at the wheel of the Ship of…
Two New Poems 2007
THE WORLD If all the shapes in the world were to proclaim themselves in the spirit of devotional usefulness and art and call o…
The Arrow
An arrow that left its bow in the Middle Ages was still in orbit round and round the earth not having found its…
MECCA MEDINA TIMEWARP / Prayer at the Ka’ba
PRAYER AT THE KA’BA Oh Lord, the orange cat lying asleep on the shoe rack outside th…