Sammo
Mast Taukali Friends, Look how mischievously my heart longs for her in moments and happenings. My heart inquires whether she is an angel or fairy. Today I am impatient again to behold…
2021
Sammobeli
Friends, Look how mischievously my heart longs for her in moments and happenings. My heart inquires whether she is an angel or fairy. Today I am impatient again to behold…
On reading
Some of my new friends – especially young ones – who visit me at home for the first time pose interesting questions about the modest collection of books that I…
Love my house stranger, as I did
500, 500 happy faces have arrived, arrived to move into our only shelter, the only abode we’ve known, Our Home. 8 year old Qasim insists that Fatima must not be…
Unidentifiable
Let’s look into the pockets!!! Under the pile of discarded papers We might find a crumpled letter, full of love Soaked in tears, a withered rose Drenched in blood, an…
The Paris Commune: ‘In future we will turn the guns on you’
The Communards’ prized cannon behind the barricades in 1871. | Pierre-Ambroise Richebourg, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons As we mark the 150th anniversary of the French proletariat’s heroic first bid to…
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The night eased its reins in the dark prison As I was tormented by blurred, foggy thoughts, As my heart of steel counted the wounds of the night, The ground…
I Ask For Silence
Now they can leave me in peace, and grow used to my absence. I am going to close my eyes. I only want five things, five chosen roots. One is…
A lifeless life
Imagine the mountains with heaving breasts And chiseled limbs Raw and pure the nature’s bride That wild seductress with it’s ancient pride Waiting for you with delphic lores But you…