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In Response to Payam Feili’s poem: Eleven

In Response to Payam Feili’s poem: Eleven I too blossom in that languid lake— grieve for your words my poems bowdlerized beneath fallen leaves I mourn my sitting Shiva my wild rose in dark prison cells where sleeplessness is at no time impossible, where spring never reaches any further than the walls I despair for my uncle’s only son in the cold season of his naked groin O, how I despair for his lips on my nape

miente la música tanka

¿Cuándo miente la música? ¡Cuando sonidos de perfección acústica en Lps sobrepasan mis latidos!

when music learns to lie tanka

when does music learn to lie? when the sounds of acoustic perfection on Lps overpass my heartbeats

con la calma tanka

con la calma que nos distanciamos de la lluvia— envueltos en un sentido de plenitud 

the rain tanka

how calmly we distance each other from the rain— a constant sense of fullness surrounding us

migration haiku

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migration… on the slim backs of children

my country Tanka

my country 'tis of thee ... picking strawberries  at the corner of angst and apprehension over-ridden by ghosts 

falling into grace

falling  into grace... the art  of dreaming up  the impossible

come sit by me Somonka

come sit by me my kindred friend we can no longer look for God on every corner come here let’s talk they've kidnapped Him, my senseless brother and no one’s paying for his ransom

The Voice 2015 Jordan Smith - Semifinals: "Somebody to Love"

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desert rain haiku

desert rain mirrors images of light... the blues

blues are gone tanka

rain on the desert, mirror images of beauty… blues are gone it took me long to breathe the road is broad, the search deep

geografía de mi memoria tanka

geografía de mi memoria— colección al azar de versos arrebatados a la noche  

geography of my memory tanka

geography of my memory— a collection of verses hijacked from the dead of night

un soñador tanka

un soñador  me salvo  del desespero…  camuflado  de arco iris

a cloud-walker

a cloud-walker saved me  from despair— camouflaged  with rainbows

Terrorismo

Terrorismo ¿Qué se necesita para dejar a un lado la oración... caminar en el amor sin fijarse en la lluvia que inunda el corazón? ¿Qué significa derretir la mente con temor... enterrar las armas antes de que el corazón desvanezca y las piernas se empapen de orine?

caminó tanka

caminó por una calle mojada ensayando un nuevo mañana… el mundo en guerra robó  tiempo al día para trabajar en un poema… una ave menor del paraíso espera por tu respuesta

Adele - Make You Feel My Love [Official Video]

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I steal minutes

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I steal time to work on a poem… a lesser bird of paradise waits for your reply