Honoring Our Election of Obama
This poem I present in homage to the overwhelming and outpouring national heart-energy in our election of Barack Obama to be o…
Poems
Take Down the Universe
Take down the universe bit by bit, dismantle its brute manifestos, cancel the President’s breakfast in the Van Buren Room, on …
Ramadan Sonnet: Final Sonnet
From moon to moon the months go floating by, one set for pilgrimage, one set for fasting. Filmy pictures of our lives pass lik…
People
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LsWGpM6Siw] The Reed People, the Bog People, People of the Sun, the Chosen People, gr…
PARADISE GATE (for Mahmoud Darwish)
Mahmoud Darwish: The great Palestinian poet who died August 9th, 2008, from complications arising from an open heart surgery o…
Gulp
Everything all at once takes a pause then resumes again We can’t see or feel it most times a crack the size of the…
A Little Door
A little door at the bottom of it all opens up and when you crouch down to get in it’s as vast as the…
One More Word
How can we add one more word to it one more syllable one more breath to what is already at its peak of perfection…
Apothecary Jars
Apothecary jars on shelves of burnished silver beakers filled with smoke gurgling in the dark Something must be brewing from t…
Knot of Gold / Road to Konya / In Rumi’s Tomb (Sufi Symposium 2012)
The Prophet took people of abject p…
The Name of the Rose
“The name of the rose on her lips as she sank into darkness was…” but the dream phrase left upon waking was cut off…
If All the Wood in the World
If all the wood in the world were to sing and every rose gave a political speech and every cloud took pity on its…