Poem

Mohammed Abu-Talib

Side by side

Pick Your Dilly

Piccadilly Circus
Europe’s sons and daughters
Happily assembles
Far from homes and troubles.

Knapsacks, beards and long hair;
Partners often by pair;
Clothes outdressing gypsies;
Thoughts outdreaming fancies.

Mystic breaths entirely
Fill both square and rally:
Troubadourish music,
Instruments _ exotic.

Herbs and scents’ best:
East replaces West…
Stimulations …
Meditations …

Angry sons and daughters
Blaming sinful fathers:
Slave-conquering warriors!
Unwanted big powers!

Mohammed Abu-Talib

(Morocco, 1930)

Mohammed Abu-Talib was born in the thirties in Fes, Morocco. In his native city, he received both primay and high school education before he went to the USA to continue his studies. Thus from 1959 to 1964 he studied at Jacksonville State University, Alabama, Howard University, and Georgetown University. Then, he moved to Guanajuato University (Mexico), and from there to Santander (Spain). He al...