Poems

A late-night videoku (attempted spontaneously for a while in 2009), extemporized before hitting the video button (I will confe…

Video’d haiku in the moment of its making… with one false start… Haiku: 5/7/5 syllables, a momentary noticing, a flash, succin…

Olivier Messiaen, my favorite 20th century composer, a true mystic, actually envisioned being among the angels, often by putti…

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRZkB6lZJhs] A breath of fresh air sailed over the highest mountain peak and down into…

I’m more concerned I’m more concerned he said of how these next few years these next few years will affect the small and peris…

(Note: This is a poem for the Mawlid, honoring the Prophet Muhammad’s birth. In devotional poetry the honorific, “peace of All…

Embedded in the velvet is the thorn and at the tip of the thorn choirs When you take off your face and sit down…

There are so many souls worth saving the face wreathed in roses whose eyes tell tales from before civilization when trees were…

I think many of us are still in a state of shock over the Israeli powered holocaust in Gaza against the Palestinian innocents.…

(Note: this poem written during the 2006 Lebanon invasion by Israel is sadly too cogent now as well…) We’re living in a time o…

Sitting facing the Ka’ba like a flat black kite bobbing in the wind, or rather the flat black square of the kite is stationary…

What are feet for but to go around the Ka’ba? What are eyes for but to look upon God’s House? What are lips for…