Poetry Chaikhana Forum

[Dick]

from "Twigs," by Taha Muhammad Ali ...


And so

it has taken me

all of sixty years

to understand

that water is the finest drink,

and bread the most delicious food,

and that art is worthless

unless it plants

a measure of splendor in people's hearts.

~

(So What: New & Selected Poems, 1971-2005, by Taha Muhammad Ali, translated by Peter Cole, Yahya Hijazi, and Gabriel Levin)


Dick

[silent_lotus]

thank you dick

always nice to find a new pen to share


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