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The Ruba'iyat of Créteil Lake - Part Twenty-Three
by T. Wignesan → (All Poetry by T. Wignesan)
Thursday, June 7, 2018    Rated "G" by the Author.
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All over the country, the routes were jammed: even those of the Papal Santiago de Compostela, excepting that leading up to near Poitiers in 732... Te "Darling Dears" formed the first line of defense facing the Robo-Cops...


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The Ruba’iyat of Créteil Lake – Part Twenty-Three

Is it true the sun dared cock its eye over the hillocks
Nor did it with affront sink into raging Atlantic docks
Such the glare of armoured headlights singeing the mist-crowned mosque
Though the assembled hosts ogled the Furies with hidden locks

The Faithful knelt with heads humbled down facing best the mihrab
Be it on sidewalks thoroughfares parking lots or slab
Calling out in strength: “Allah! Le Clément et Le Miséricordieux!”
Hundreds of thousands of hungry voices rose in one gift of gab

Faced down by Darling Dears Robo-Cops looked lively about them
When outstepped prayer-full worshippers in composed phlegm –
From out the Chief’s official car rushed the dazed Commandant:
“Tarry yet, Gentle Folk, bid His Holiness to our errand come!”

The Senior Mosque Administrator decked in robes and headgear
Spake out in measured tones grave and strict amid silence dear:
“The Prophet’s Servant hath just now gained his hard-earned quarters
Whence at this very hour breaks the fast with sacred bread pure!”

Bison Futé traffic reporters echoed “panic stations” in tears
Safe for one route leading from Pyrenées to tell-tale Poitiers
Retreat was no longer feasible: byelanes to broadways
Lay clogged with shiny metal and armour-plated zigzag gears.

© T. Wignesan – Paris, 2014

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