Into My Own by Hakim Kassim

[tabby title="Poem"] I cannot say much about people I love,I've known for so long of weary faces,And at first word I'll in heart yield and move,For years I've sought to help in good ways;But the weary brother with heart broken,Not...

MayChild ’93 ‘ by Hakim Kassim

[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...

MayChild ’93 by Hakim Kassim

[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 comeOf...

Expression no. 22 by Hakim Kassim

[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...

Come, O Come! by Hakim Kassim

[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...