[tabby title="Poem"] (to Amal)Musical Child of May, spirit fierce and fair!Born to Spring when the cricket cheers, orDrowsy nightingale weeps in melody, to begetA new breed that in future glory may rhyme--Here to the twenty, and a thousand to come,Of...

[tabby title="Poem"] Eyes I saw full of me,Blue, or brown, these now pass by me,The lore of Love thus definedRemains unspoken, though refined:'To where is he gone,' she in muttering tone asks;We've left so much for the WASPS;Now, retreated for...

[tabby title="Poem"] Jigjiga. bygone pleasures.outside,looking in.insistences.cold January.missing link.battling shore.windy evenings.no point trying for it now.summer is not close.i nor love nor hate as such--our love IS more than that:i am used to Jigjiga. [tabby title="Poet Bio"] Born in Mogadishu, Somalia,...

[tabby title="Poem"] for all the wide world that I've seen,it's but only myself that I could have been— what a way a whole built life to tarnish,although everything in it we cherish! the distance seems final which now bears usapart,yet...

[tabby title="Poem"] Come and see how I cryForever without tears,And the years wane and wax,With me waiting for you; Come and see this soulThat has yet to learn to laugh,And how life wearsOn a heart wandering meaningless in Time; Without...