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…
Poems
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…
Shouting God by Tiel Aisha Ansari
The hills above The Dalles are striped with snow and last year’s stubble. Hawks hunt along the rows. The hills were shouting G…
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…