Category Archives: Poetry

Kabir – Slander

Posted on January 22, 2022 by niebla

Kabir Slander Slander! Slander! People deride me –folks truly love to smear and tarnish.Slander’s my father, slander’s my mother. If your name has been blackened, you’ll go to Vaikuntha –the true Name’s meaning will set itself in your mind. There’s … Continue reading →

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A world ends

Posted on August 6, 2021 by niebla

Slowly slowly theworld slowly slowly slowlyends (evanesces) – Niebla (© 2021)

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Rome, Easter Sunday 2020

Posted on April 12, 2020 by niebla

A dog barks somewherein the neighborhood. Otherwiseeverything locked down. – Niebla (© 2020)

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Many years ago

Posted on October 17, 2019 by niebla

For N. B. I played you my newly burnt CD with Kanika Banerjee songs You said She sounds like a dying goat and laughed and laughed – Niebla (© 2019) NoteKanika Banerjee (1924 – 2000) was an Indian Rabindra Sangeet … Continue reading →

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Jasmin

Posted on April 20, 2018 by niebla

I wish I could record the fragrance of its flowers and send it to everyone. – Niebla (© 2018)

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Silence

Posted on February 9, 2017 by niebla

Things are as they are and do not need poetic embroidery. – Niebla (Haven’t been writing much poetry in some time, and this may supply some explanation. Quite apart from the fact that I’m opposed to poetic embroidery in principle.)

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I thought of a poem

Posted on September 25, 2015 by niebla

Will have to write it down. – Niebla (2015)

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The tip of the anthill

Posted on July 12, 2015 by niebla

(thinking of Srebrenica and two late 20th century monsters – Karadžić and Mladić) The worst are always at the tip but the tip is nothing without the masses below the faithful and fanatic executioners reaching down into the ugly subterranean subconscious … Continue reading →

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You exist

Posted on May 31, 2015 by niebla

You exist Your place is where eyes look at you. Where eyes meet you come into being. Held by a call, always the same voice, everyone appears to be calling in one voice. You could fall, but you won’t. Eyes … Continue reading →

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Alba

Posted on November 8, 2014 by niebla

Alba is so beautiful, sounds so beautiful and says it all. – Niebla Note Alba in this case is not a beautiful woman (like Jessica Alba), but came about as a result of having to translate the Spanish word alba … Continue reading →

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