Moroccan Dreams - Poetry to Take You to a Place You've Never Been and Explore Foreign Cultures

Moroccan Dreams

final cease-
one particular-way ticket's journey, train stretching
south,
Tangier, Casablanca,

tunnel of
Marrakech's oasis',
its open dry mouth,

sand dunes increasing in the horizon,
sun-bleached colors
filling winding streets,
summer's burning orange glow,
shadows look to show us,
pointing the way
a further hazy moment sublime,

in the back labyrinth of alleyways
major you ever deeper-
to openings into the previous,
beyond technologies tired blistered feet,
beyond the light, swiftly fading;

mint of vibrant green
and milky white teeth,
refreshment to soothe the parched throats
of a tired college teacher's daylong bouts,
his tired shouts
of science and math
of history's anciently guarded path,

hoping someday to travel-
beyond Morocco's walls
and stroll by way of the streets
that lay more than the sea,
exactly where his dreams someday promises to be-
that day,
he'd then
be definitely no cost;

the bare broken tile floor peeling white paint,
bedsprings creaking,
the light on the ceiling,

stares ominously very simple, the door slightly ajar,
the window barred;

the creaking bed
barely holds your sunburnt head,
alternatively you are led-
to a man promoting hashish,
for significantly less than what you could invest in
a round loaf of bread,

a boy leads you to a retailer
to obtain your favored present,
practice his English,
extort a tip;

the drum beats softly
to the straining melodic fluctuating voice
of ageless Muslim tales;

a pipe emits
the sweet and sour pungent odor of the drug
that inspires hope
in the lives
that have practically failed,

as stories of an ancient kingdom
beat to drumbeats of ceramic blue,
and of young children in the evening,
of heroes and wicked sultans,
palaces and, courageous, noble fights

in strained poetic French-
and clipped sing-song Arabic,
are sung to the gentle drumbeat-
of lanterns glowing and burning,

flickering wicks
practically extinguished
by the tales of the myths;

the crowd winds by way of the alleys
sun touches the camel's lifted back,
who stands nevertheless on the horizon,
distant and strained,
as the wind blows rays behind
the rocky mountain cracks far away,

Moroccan minarets and prayers loud via the speakers,
just about every day they methodically play,

a hundred million young children-
their lives
such as dust blowing on the scales,

who will paint the image
that will polish from the desert rust,
and shine on the lives of the kids
in Morocco's blowing desert dust;

wonderful young children
with golden weathered skin lay on the dusty shelf,
in the books in the college
of a thousand youths,

oblivious to wisdom's wealth, in city rooms
exactly where we develop
in America's schools;

of all of the locations,
at the finish of earth's trails,
to locate a way there,
and leave a mark on the souls,
of these searching for the truth,
and bask in the beauty of youth.

Marrakech, Morocco

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Moroccan Dreams Morocco is a former French colony exactly where French is nevertheless spoken, in addition to the top language of Arabic. Several of its cities, which includes Marrakech, although possessing contemporary sections, also retain an ancient flavor, with components of the city nonetheless significantly they identical as they would have been one particular,000 years ago.

This poem was written by John Scott, who teaches science in Newark, NJ.

The poem can be identified in the book Dawn of a New Discovery and Beyond the Horizon, which are avaialalbe on the internet.

Dawn of a New Discovery is 346 pages, paperback and illustrated. It consists of each original poems, and poems from Lots of sources, which includes some modern day, youth, child, and effectively-recognized classic poets. It is hoped to inspire interest in writing and reading poetry. The book also includes biographies of properly-identified and classic poets, as properly as a how-to section in most chapters, and a sections for the reader to create his or her personal poetry.

The poetry presents a kaleidoscope of tips regarding lands, spirituality, kids and youths, oppression and violence, college life and struggles, as nicely as painting a image of hope.

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Beyond the Horizon includes poems of Asia, North Africa, the Middle East, and other exotic areas. Planet Poetry. It is one hundred pages and obtainable on line also.