Poems

Tres Cosas Tres cosas me tienen preso de amores el corazón, la bella Inés, el jamón y berenjenas con queso. Esta Inés (amantes) es 5 quien […]

Ghazal 1 ‘Tis love’s wild sea, my sighs’ fierce wind doth lash those waves my tears uprear; My head, the bark of sad despite; mine eyebrows […]

Ghazal 10 When the sheets have yonder Torment to their bosom ta’en to rest, Think I, “Hides the night-adorning Moon within the cloudlet’s breast.” In the […]

Ghazal 2 Years trodden under foot have I lain on that path of thine; Thy musky locks are noose-like cast, around my feet to twine. O […]

Ghazal 3 With her graceful-moving form, a Cypress jasmine-faced is she? Or in Eden’s bower a branch upon the Lote or Tuba-tree? That thy blood-stained shaft […]

Ghazal 4 Before thy form, the box-tree’s lissom figure dwarfed would show; Those locks of thine the pride of ambergris would over-throw. Who, seeing thy cheek’s […]

Ghazal 5 Thy cheek, like limpid water, clear doth gleam; Thy pouting mouth a bubble round doth seem. The radiance of thy cheek’s sun on the […]

Ghazal 6 All sick the heart with love for her, sad at the feast of woe; Bent form, the harp; low wail, the fillte; heart’s blood […]

Ghazal 7 Tulip-cheeked ones over rosy field and plain stray all around; Mead and garden cross they, looking wistful each way, all around. These the lovers […]

Ghazal 8 From thine own beauty’s radiant sun doth light flow; How lustrously doth now the crystal glass show! Thy friend’s the beaker, and the cup’s […]