As of a Giant Cloud
A sweet-faced saint like a giant cloud floats past the cliff edge where we stand in wait for such saintly visitation and he do…
Poems
Poem for Imran Saithna…
DEATH CAME IN RATHER SHEEPISHLY In Memoriam Imran Saithna Death came in rather sheepishly having just taken someone quite youn…
In Memoriam Imran Saithna
Ruba’iyat XIX I’ll take the blows upon my chin I’ll rise, I’ll fight and I will win I will be happy someday soon I…
The Prophet Muhammad Arose One Morning
(sallahu alayhi wa salaam) The Prophet Muhammad arose one morning and by evening it …
Spring Poem in Winter
GOD’S ALCHEMY Green elements turn into golden ones when God’s breath flows across them Gold dust motes float down as slowly as…
Haiku for 1/19/07 on DeenPort…
The sky is pewter… No birds come to the feeder — war desolates all These haiku are i…
Poem from: Coattails of the Saint
PATHETIC AS IT MAY SEEM Pathetic as it may seem this entire world sits on a table in a little spotlight in God’s Throne…
Haiku / A Rhinoceros is Running the War
A rhinoceros — beady eyes and quite small brain — is running the war! I’m sorry… The…
Poem from: In the Realm of Neither
THE ENORMOUS CORRIDOR OF SORROW In the enormous corridor of sorrow masked Napoleonic pygmies play with human souls in the shap…
Ghazal (from The Flame of Transformation Turns to Light)
GOD’S MONOTONE The rain’s coming down outside my window – leaky pipes – a background…
Haiku on DeenPort 1/14/07
The heart breaks to hear any news now from Iraq… good… bad… such hardship! Another: We broke in — smashed things… killed the k…
The Ballad of the Tyrant
The tyranny of Boulderoak the knavery of Dor the flat out death at Zonderzee the corpses on the floor The scepter of the ruler…