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By Sharif S Elmusa
Much can switch in anyone over twenty one years. "Flawed panorama: Poems 1987-2008" is award nominated poet Sharif S. Elmusa's solo anthology of poetry. targeting the subjects of warfare, relatives, and exile, his paintings is robust and relocating, making "Flawed panorama" a brilliant portrait of a man's lifestyles via poetry. "The Angels": one of the issues mom advised me as a child://Every individual has angels//standing on his shoulders./And they weigh each deed./On the precise, Nakir, /for the nice deeds;/for the undesirable, Nakeer, at the left.//That is why my gait is tilted now/and because the years pass--/ my again will develop hunched.// Such nakedness!
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Where did the can opener gp? —the instruments that do unto others. And this stray cloud, hanging, in the half open door, is it coming, in or going,out? S H A R K ' S ELMUSA 60 FLAWED LANDSCAPE A r e n ' t We A l l Brothers? who cared about a car capsizing, until, at a bend in the road, she lurched into a ditch, exactly So these are the hills of the Highlands, as I had feared, mist and locks and monsters and here we were, feeling helpless. sheep and heather and scarce sun when suddenly a young boy, and people mumbling almost my age when I memorized not the bare hills I had imagined Bobby Burns's rhyme, when, roaming the flat barren land approached us, and looked east of the camp and, from a folded book at the wheel stuck in the ditch tucked in my back pocket I memorized and said to wait a minute "wherever I wander, wherever I roam.
Mohammad received his first word from Gabriel in the cave. The loneliness ofJesus led him to Golgotha. I don't know much about the Buddha, but his visage looks bathed in sunrays. How far can we trust the thoughts of lonely men? The lovers opt for the moonlight. S H A H IF 8. MU5A FLAWED LANDSCAPE How T h i n g s M i g r a t e I am a migrant, too, and not the one The littleculculutorislying onthecushion on thecouch, a black box, a sarcophagus of Pythagoras, to put things in their place; but this is not a surrealist canvas.
Underground, still refusing to die. I intend to live my ration of years and hours, Whom does a lonely man in • dark Siberian winter take for a friend? no more, no less. And w hen my boots grow heavy I will think how that caterpillar Was the architect who dreamed the obelisk wove her cocoon on the sand of the beach. lying, lonely, under a palm tree? howa nun mightgiggleridingaFerriswheel. Mohammad received his first word from Gabriel in the cave. The loneliness ofJesus led him to Golgotha. I don't know much about the Buddha, but his visage looks bathed in sunrays.