Piazza of Poets (1) My Read

Sheikh Mohammed, Ruler of Dubai

Dubai International Poetry Festival (2009)

Gathering

Of voices

For our soul

Wole Soyinka –

Afro and goatee

Glowing cotton puffs

Surrounding dark face

Nigerian tract

          Words rising

          From the page

          Life we know

         

Agus Sarjono –

Small Indonesian

Features angular

Dialogue in print

Staged “Democracy’’

          Poetry        

Like Mozart

Opera

           

Ricardo Domeneck –

Sao Paolo in Berlin

Mélange of English

German Portuguese

Eliot “Wasteland”

 

          Arabic

Hosts speaking

From our home

Muhammad Balabd –

Engineer by trade

After hours poet

Patriotic plea

For the Emirates

Piazza of Poets, Part 1. My 'Read' © Ron Villejo

On attending a poetry soirée at the Madinat Jumeirah Theatre, during the Dubai International Poetry Festival (2009)