Courageously in love–

not with his mistress

but with his poetry

in his loneliness oasis

There, he had his memorable pleasures,

His joys, his ecstasies,

The painful love of his mysteries,

The timidity of his soul,

The chains of his fears,

And the stamp of his pen name:

Martinforoz, the Persian Poet.

Courtesy of Google pictures

From my second collection Out Inside (in press).  Austin Macauley Publishers