I have no tears left to shed for you, No sympathetic words slide off my tongue, The salty streams of sympathy you’re due Evaporate upon…

It’s fascinating how a stone may lie Deep  down beneath a hundred miles of earth, And stay there as a billion years go by To…

I’ve strolled this river often thinking why I find myself attracted to its shore, And after some such strolling, can’t deny The reasons why it…

The thing about forgetfulness is that A creature that someone believes you know Has left the rocky perch where once it sat And wandered off…

I tried to capture into the confines of a sonnet the gist of Shaykh Amin’s insights into the conclusory verses of Surah Al-Qasas (the chapter of…

There aren’t so many things I cannot stand, But of the ones I cannot stand at all Are: handshakes feeling like they’ll break my hand,…

There is something about a child, you know, Something that makes all other pain seem less; To hear the constant utterance of No And find…

A lunchtime sonnet to parents out there getting anxious about their babies’ walking/talking abilities :-). Why all this haste to see a baby walk! Are…

You ever see a face you’ve seen before, Then start to wonder when or where that was? You glance askance while lined up at the…

Inspired by Arthur Rimbaud’s Eternity How can the reaches of a mortal mind Encompass what defies encompassing, To plumb the depths of time and space…