Sample of Poems from the new collection "Book of Love and Veneration", currently in production process.

With these poems, I am wandering out of time and abandoning, at least temporarily, the so-called "Hyperpoetry" and "Hypepoetry". In my attempt to express love and veneration for a pristine being, I am adopting a more lineal approach and returning to archaic forms of prayers and hymns, particularly those of my Mesopotamian ancestors.

Prayer - 1: The Reward

Goddess! Your dawning face
is my recovered breath and horizon.
Shipwrecked and stranded,
I was in for a lifelong wait;
your appearance now
is reward and compensation
for my nightmarish life.

With refreshing decent look,
select perfume, faintly painted lips,
dark hair, pigmented orange and red,
you dashed into my landscape,
removed away dead tissue
and brought me fields and trees.

Irreversible, my attraction to you.
I am a star maneuvering to land on your island.

Oh, goddess, after ages of separation and loss,
since our pristine time, never lived through,
everything is now at hand, apparently effortlessly obtained,
yet, there it is, the trace of blood we left behind.

Wednesday, August 01, 2007


Flowing In The Tram

Casually dressed, unconcerned,
carefree in this world.
I am flowing in the tram,
flowing and flowing
on my way to meet friends.
As if in Kirkuk, decades ago,
my feet are light,
hitting the hot dust of the road.

Oh, I have changed.
But she is still here,
just over there, not faraway;
I shall reach the afternoon
and at the cozy café,
she will arrive.

Tomorrow is the separation.
But, ah, suppress this image
of you being led to execution.
Keep flowing, flowing, flowing in the tram.

She will leave and much later come again.
See, the sun is shining
on this valuable planet
whose probabilities keep us alive,
gaining, losing and re-gaining.
This macabre feast,
where plans are born and then decay.
She will come,
and carefree your days will again be;
keep flowing, then, flowing, flowing,
keep flowing in the tram.

Berlin, Saturday, August 04, 2007

Quasi Portrait

The descending semi-darkness
has a region of light.
It replaces the discourse and colors
of the day’s yesterday.

Binding the head with black
is disguising the day in its past.

All summer months are watery,
demanding evening presence.
But at what places and times?
At the originals,
not those of the risk taker.

Face and body are a memory
at an ancient seaside.
The cloth with the body inside
was brought from miles away
by the quarreling selves.

Berlin, Sunday, August 5, 2007

Hermeneutics

When my soul saw you,
it sighted its abandoned home.
When my hands touched your hands,
they devoted themselves
to the creation of your garden.

Monday, August 06, 2007


Distance - 2

We are two fusing points in virtual space;
points, if separated, would vanish.
I have no recognition for distance,
the negation of our fusion.

Monday, August 06, 2007


Adventurers

We betted with our lives,
risked the outcome of contests.
We pledged our lives
on the markets of estranged cities.
We betted on total win or breakdown.

We have escaped with our lives.
Our next bet is not a gamble.
From now on, we shall only bet on each other.

Monday, August 06, 2007


Intermezzo

When you open your hand,
you perceive a spot of light.
That is me: the silence around you.

San José, Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Intense Brilliance

At the point of intense brilliance,
my mind is serene.
My discourse is eloquent and soft.
I am warmly secure.
My pain is absent.
My tomorrow is sunny.

I am ready for forty days of seclusion.
Time to imagine you, day and night,
until we are one in union.
Time to grow and be prepared
to deserve your inclination.

San José, Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Silent Stratum - 1

Within the noise of the world,
I enter the region of silence.
Not the region
where poor death has his realm,
but where elements ferment
to produce life, robust and composed.

I am blessed to witness the births
of all what someday would decay.
Blessed like the innocent sufferer
receiving his absolution,
the one who discovered in his soul
the love he had forgotten long ago.

San José, Monday, September 03, 2007

Silent Stratum - 2

The night and the stars have arrived
at this eroded bare landscape.
Here, concepts are fuzzy,
stripped of glory,
and time is neutral;
nothing can it subtract or add,
for the hand of All-Goodness
had delegated it to ultimate stop.
Nothing will happen
in this dark void,
no interaction and no event.

Only we carry light in our minds,
veneration for each other
and for this landscape, our final home.

San José, Monday, September 03, 2007

Silent Stratum - 3

I am lonely since your arrival.
Visible now is the abyss.

Your smile is pulling away the clouds;
It may even restore health.
Missing are your voice and words.

San José, Monday, September 03, 2007

Silent Stratum - 4

Silence might become
the language of next meeting.

The terrified soul.
Empty days
in closed drawers.

Life that fled,
left images, offset in gray.

Silence is breathing space
to retrieve us for each other.

Selves, lost in the past
are new love creators.

San José, Monday, September 10, 2007

Silent Stratum - 5

Processing words,
I maintain my soul joyous.

At sea, under clouds,
I distract myself from heavy duty,
and aspire to distant light.

Not all words, some
can retrieve your image.
Only select words
can draw your image
in my mind.

How can I recover your person?
Oh, I deny calamity,
and hope we relive our infancy.

San José, Monday, September 10, 2007

Remembering While Shrubs Flutter In The Wind - 1

Voice, today´s discovery
in the shadow region.
Like breaths, lives emerge and end.
Senseless beauty relating to death.

A reminiscence of you equals life.
You, donator, elegant, humble power,
equivalent to abstract tones;
resonance of your little feet,
wordless promise,
strolling under the sun.
It is you, doing the day´s work;
transcending in the thick of night
towards unexpected light.

San José, Friday, September 14, 2007

Remembering While Shrubs Flutter In The Wind - 2

I have your replica,
the calming eyes.
The scenery is changing,
always an orange light,
demanding hopefulness.
How can I,
avoiding the beast,
reach your hands?

I use up this hour and the next,
aspiring towards structures:
land, green, leaves and sea.

You are the sea at sea,
up in the clouds, and
down where water is brought into life.

I take you to the open land,
offer you branches,
oh, and images,
of people at feasts,
out in neighbouring field.
There, we are minds in high definition,
prepared to consume our mutual inclination.

San José, Monday, September 17, 2007

The Voice - 1

Alas! No recording of the ancient event.
Hazy history of your voice at the first hour;
no way to retrieve me in the neighbourhood
of your voice along the years
until this instant of vibration,
expansion like water waves,
invisible yet present, co-traveler,
your voice, in trains of the past,
and now in a bus, an errant ship,
at a mini ocean, Braunschweig,
city of broad avenues where your voice is adopted
by the sun, maker of openings, spaces and clean buildings,
giving pretext to the trees to excel and shine.
No tears, no, those were of the darkness,
as we were still in the cold.
With futuristic urge and musicality of words
and air waves being converted to emotions
in our cozy space, your voice, your and my creator,
in the certainty of this stable city,
follows its trajectory to unite our hands.
It expels the torturers as it rejuvenates itself,
replicating all bygone times anew.
I call all lips, eyes and hands
to glorify your voice, reflector of its own brilliance
upon itself, to stay limitlessly juvenile.

San José, Wednesday, September 19, 2007

(Poems from the new collection "Book of Love and Veneration")

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