The Battle

Slowly my mind
turns over the
new words and
phrases
of another tongue.

He who has another
language has another
mind
or so the
philosophers
tell us.

But my brain aches as
I learn to speak
Arabic
bin Araby
Hal tatakallamu Al Araby?
I do
but only a little.

Still I know
that soon my brain
will stretch and turn
and accommodate
this new
way of conversing
Inshallah.

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Man Flu

Shivering miserably on the sofa

Cold and not so well

poorly in fact

But she who

must be obeyed

Says I only have

Man flu...

Changing the View

It is not easy
to change
to embrace
something new
But growth comes from such attempts
driving our roots
deep into the
hardened soil
to find the sustenance deep
within.

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On Leaving Again

On Leaving (Again)

Well old girl
I'm off again
leaving you behind
permanently

The wander or wonder
lust has gripped me
again and it's
Haere Ra
Aotearoa

Qatar Living

Doha
Splendid city
Exotic to me
Through Western eyes.

Sitting on a desert
beside the sea
resplendent
in beauty.

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Oblivion

Why do we wish
for what we can not
have
and search for the
unsearchable?

What drives us from our homes
to scurry
to and fro
in the maelstrom of life?

I guess if we knew
we would not do
And if we did not do,
then what?

Oblivion?

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Delight

Delight in the moment
In the small things
that happen.
Life is a momentary
phenomenon
lived between
the past
and future.

Be alive
to receive
what life gives you.
A laugh, a smile
the feel of warm air
on skin.
Enjoy before you die
where delight is no more
found.

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