Wednesday, 9 January 2013

The Turk

(By Gub, Turkey)

A cacophony
Accords:
The story of rupture,
Of velveted war, of a much perfumed
Overlord.

The turkiman - the crescent star
Surlyman,
Balkan baron, 
Islamic raider
Of Byzantine empire.

Sufi, 
Dervish, 
devilish dance
The swirling unctions of massaging chance.

Three centuries of Osman's tree
Constantinople falls, 
Vienna in the harem
Of Sardinapolis' branch.

Europe curses the opulence of Asia's
Gate - the thrusting forward of this mystic
Eastern state.

Top kapi's
Palace
Sherbet dream
Istanbul - miasma of cultures
Corporal and spiritual haven
Reigns
Supreme.

The Turk
May endure decline
Yet, the cultural layer cake
Of his chosen planet
Remains spiced
By five centuries
Of the sublime.

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