Venice masks

Monday 18 March 2024

Sahara - Mohammed Ebnu

What lies behind
those walls
inscribed with your name

Sunday 17 March 2024

The Unity of Faith - Vemana

Kine are of divers colours, but they all milk the same; 
Altar flowers are not alike, but worship is one flame; 

Saturday 16 March 2024

From: The Divine Pymander - Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus

A book have I written —
Not mine, but the book of the world;
For her sake
And the sake of her God,
Have I written these things.

Friday 15 March 2024

Lust is loss - Kimbi Bismark

Lust has fathered children, who are lost
In nature, they infect the land like locust,
They have assaulted this gorgeous grape
And other fruits, without mercy, they rape.

Thursday 14 March 2024

An awakening - Alice Furlong

O Spring will waken the heart of me 
With the rapture of blown violets! 

Wednesday 13 March 2024

If my father were to speak at last - Loic Ekinga

Son, 
I never imagined anything I planted 
On my way here would grow as tall as you did
Let glory return to God—

Monday 11 March 2024

Since then I go - Birago Diop

Since then I go
I follow the pathways
the pathways and roads

Sunday 10 March 2024

Wilt thou love God as He thee? - John Donne

Wilt thou love God as He thee? then digest,
My soul, this wholesome meditation,

Saturday 9 March 2024

Poplar Trees - Jovan Dučić

Why tonight the poplars rustle that way?
So passionately, so strange? Why they rustle so?
The yellow moon slowly sets behind the hills,
Distant and black, like a foreboding; and dreams

Friday 8 March 2024

News Paper - Laxmi Prasad Devkota

Newspaper covers world news
Also expresses its own views
But tilts like leaning tower of Pisa.