Full Moon Alive
A sleepless night during my second full moon quarantined on Miami Beach, stirred this poetic outpour. My bedroom has a panoramic view of the Atlantic ocean (I’m blessed and grateful), […]
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SILENCE: the meaning of quiet space
“In silence, clarity comes to you.” Silence is pure A soul without garbage, the secret of success when clarity matters What is it – that does not speak? Buried thoughts […]
THE KNOWN UNKNOWN
THE KNOWN UNKNOWN is a poem I wrote while climbing one of my favourite trails in Côte d’Azur this spring. The flimsy April weather herds an abundance of clouds and […]
The eternal wisdom of Lao Tzu condensed into poetry
It is a daring act of self-inflicted ridicule to condense the eternal wisdom of Lao Tzu into a poem of my own. In Tao Te Ching he potentially mocks my work […]
My Favourite Books: The Stars of My Library
You reveal a bit of yourself through the books you read, I do too. I wrote on Books: the mirror of your mind and soul with the perspectives on how we […]
See the world like a poet
These globally infected times can clear or further fog our vision. Lao Tzu, the widely praised chinese poet captured this illuminating wisdom centuries ago. Not just optically, austerity reveals how […]
Corrupted purity: Chinese poetic mastery meets contemporary reality
My short poem about corrupted purity was inspired by some of the eternal truths shared in the poems of perhaps the greatest Chinese poet Du Fu. Also known in the […]
My favorite letter is a sky… which is yours?
My favorite letter is not in the Latin alphabet, and as much as I adore the Arabic painterly abjad, it is the roots of the Chinese calligraphy that won over […]
Liberty: indulgence and illusion of a bohemian mind
Poets and philosophers, the deep free souls of myriad kingdoms, republics, commonwealths and other forms of geographical identities, wrote about the desire for liberty. Politicians entered the quest, playing with […]
Dark Necessities
A poison is the origin of life And it can kill you all the same For, Without one the other couldn’t live Could not exist, nor feel full — beauty and […]