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FRIENDS are angels restoring us when our wings don't remember how to fly ….

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June 12

Lion

December 05

MUSIC 6 Anouar Brahem

ASTRAKAN CAFE
 
 
 
November 12

tigris

 
 
 
all about the river tigris
 
August 28

MUSLIM SUFI POETRY - You alone

 

Suad Al- MUBARAK Al-SABAH   (1942- 

 
You alone . . . control my history
And write your name on the first page
And on the third, and on the tenth,
And on the last.
You alone are allowed to sport with my days
From the first century of my birth
To the twenty-first century after love.
You alone can add to my days what you wish
And delete what you wish
My whole history flows from the palms of your hands
And pours into your palms.


June 19

Tennessee Williams part VII

VII. You and I

Who am I?

A wounded man, badly bandaged,

a monster among angels or angel among monsters,

a box of questions shaken up and scattered on the floor,

 

A foot on the stairs, a voice on a wire,

a busy collection of thumbs that imitate fingers,

an enemy of yours. Your lover.

 

Text copyright © 1979 by Tennessee Williams

June 18

Tennessee Williams part VI

VI. The Ice-Blue Wind

 

Being expert on the zither

he gave concerts twice a winter ...

 

His fingers knew The Ice-Blue Wind

that single score and nothing more.

 

But what of that? It did suffice

to close him in a wall of ice,

 

Tinged with distance, always blue,

which somehow warmed him through and through.

 

Long, long after all had gone,

and in the hall crept winter dawn,

 

He would strike a final string,

take a bow and proudly shin

 

Up a column up to the roof,

in union with The Absolute.

June 16

Tennessee Williams part V

 
 

V. Wolf's hour

 

Well, it's three A.M.

after an hour's sleep and a blond youth who declined to stay with me.

Wolf's hour of night is not well-spent alone.

 

Nevertheless there is this bit of comfort:

in my hands' curved remembrance there remains indelibly

the unclothed flesh of the youth who refused to stay longer,

and I could settle for less,

God knows if not unknowing.

June 06

Haïku - Death

 
DEATH
 
I am dead again
Dead without grave or any wreaths
My heart still beating

Asking God to take me there,
Quick - without regrets, remorses.

 
 

Galaxy Accrostic et Haïku

 
 
M illiards years before
I deal way was born
L
ook to the sky and see
K
nitting of shining stars
Y
ellow and white lights

W alking in heaven
A
s much as many tokens
Y
ears after years it stays

-----------------------------------------

So far from us is
A galaxy called Milky
you can read it just

In raising your eyes towards
Sky and find the peace in heaven

 




 

 

 

June 05

Tennessee Williams part IV

 
 

IV. Liturgy of Roses

 

This is for you for whom bloom certainly roses ...

 

and all of those doors floating open on those who have roses

going to those who have roses, in chambers which those without roses

possess no license to enter.

 

Roses, all roses, the immense impartiality of all God

and all roses,

orifice emptying, never emptied of roses.

 

Because you are tolerant only of those who have roses,

Your eyes ... saying, These roses, all roses, my roses,

Though still in the arms of those who came bearing roses.

 

And by the same token confessing: My tongue, my tongue,

not your body,

my body, my body, not yours,

while murmuring You, while continually murmuring

You, you, you, which is translated to I

no matter how murmured to whom.

 

 

June 04

Part III - TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

 
 

III. Winter Smoke

Winter smoke is blue and bitter:

women comfort you in winter.

 

Scent of thyme is cool and tender:

girls are music to remember.

 

Men are made of rock and thunder:

threat of storm to labor under.

 

Cypress woods are demon-dark:

boys are fox-teeth in your heart.

 

June 03

accrostic - A letter

 
 
A bility for a
 
L etter to give happiness
E ngrave words in minds
T otal sweetness and
T estimony of love
E nergy of feelings
R emain us we are alive ...
 
 
June 02

Tennessee Williams (part II)

 

II. Cruising

 

Noontime youths,

thighs and groins tight-jean-displayed,

loiter onto Union Square,

junkies flower-scattered there,

lost in dream, torso-bare,

young as you, old as I, voicing soundlessly a cry ...

 

Androgyne, mon amour,

shadows of you name a price

exorbitant for short lease.

What would you suggest I do,

wryly smile and turn away,

fox-teeth gnawing chest-bones through?

 

Even less would that be true

than, carnally, I was to you

many, many lives ago,

requiems of fallen snow.

 

Androgyne, mon amour,

cold withdrawal is no cure

for addiction grown so deep.

Now, finally, at cock's crow,

released in custody of sleep,

dark annealment, time-worn stones

far descending,

no light there, no sound there,

entering depths of thinning breath,

farther down more ancient stones,

halting not, drawn on until

 

Ever treacherous, ever fair,

at a table small and square,

not first light but last light shows ...

Androgyne, mon amour.

June 01

miss you

MISS YOU ...

Miss you yesterday,
Miss you today & tomorrow
Miss you in heaven ...

Miss you before and after
Miss you now and for ever

 

 
 
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