Sunday, February 04, 2007

I love this poem....

The Poppy

By Duse Mohamed Ali

I drank of the juice of the poppy,

The juice on your ruby lip

That fount of intoxication

From which you have let me sip

But leagues and leagues divide us,

Thought I yearn like the thirsty soul,

The soul in the arid desert

Who pants for the water bowl

How long must I bear this parting?

How long shall the thirsting be

Era the juice of that ruddy poppy

Be once more given to me?

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