Poems

Untitled XXIX I haven’t come here to settle down. I’ve come here to depart. I am a merchant with lots of goods, selling to whoever will […]

Untitled XXV Let’s say the name of Allah all the time. Let’s see what my Lord does. Let’s travel the Way always. Let’s see what my […]

Untitled XXVI The mature ones are a sea. A lover is needed to take the plunge, a diver to bring up a pearl. When you have […]

Untitled XXVII Our laws are different from other laws. Our religion is like no other. It is different from the seventy-two sects. We are guided by […]

Untitled XXVIII Let the deaf listen to the mute. A soul is needed to understand them both. Without listening we understood. Without understanding we carried it […]

A Song in Passing Where am I now? And what Am I to say portends? Death is but death, and not The most obtuse of ends. […]

Alone I, one who never speaks, Listened days in summer trees, Each day a rustling leaf. Then, in time, my unbelief Grew like my running – […]

An October Nocturne The night was faint and sheer; Immobile, road and dune. Then, for a moment, clear, A plane moved past the moon. O spirit […]

By the Road to the Air Base The calloused grass lies hard Against the cracking plain: Life is a grayish stain; The salt-marsh hems my yard. […]

Dark spring My mother Foresaw deaths And walked among Chrysanthemums, Winecolored, Withered rose, The earthy blossoms. My very breath Disowned In nights of study, And page […]