Haiku For Café Arabia Poem by Bashir Goth

Haiku For Café Arabia

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The following haiku is a tribute to Café Arabia, the first coffee house in the UAE to host book clubs and literary discussions; a literary salon of sorts.


Stop - think and reflect
Here in Café Arabia-
Ishtar in spring

Huda Sha’rawi
And recall May Ziyaddah-
Shemu of the Nile

Katy Antonius
Le Salonnières of the east-
Pomegranate season

Fire of Prometheus
Eternal cup of Rumi-
Grapes of summer

Rays of Babylon
Hathor, Aphrodite, Oshun -
Nightingale to Africa

Odes of Imur al-Qais
Candles of Darwish, Fadwa-
Olive season in Nablus

Muses of the East
Umm Kulthum and Fayrouz -
Shaqaeq Nu’man

The whirling dervish
The rock, the wall, the heavens-
Figs in Galilee.
Bashir Goth (December 27,2011)

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