The Secret of Absence
A Midnight That Startles In Your Absence
Crucified on the Pole of Incense and Legends of the East
There is a narrative standing by, eager for your arrival, but darkness quiets the bells of patience. It is sinful when evening falls, the sunset disappears, and a dream remains leaning on the window, mournful, yearning for the allurement of Jasmine
That is desiring thirst, written by the skill of the angels on the patch of light and turns it into a bow to hunt the flocks of coveting. Pain throws me balcony breathes closeness and imaginations.
Nostalgia exists in the instant of a hug Since our last rendezvous, your presence continues to captivate me. Since we last spoke…. you’ve never stopped asking the violets about the enticement of the shirt and the secret of the absence.
Silent Reverie
To embrace my dream in solitude, to rise by oneself to wander solo, no red rose can guarantee hope. I gaze into the mirror, feeling tired My evening holds a buried sorrow, My aspiration is a piece of poetry, My life appears like a faded outfit, set down at the portal of a blind oracle.
No voice to diminish my loneliness, no poem to rise
from silence, no rendezvous to stir a wandering thought. While the bonds on your words create a cage, love constitutes a sin, And the letter rests on silent pages… Dismissed, as was my dream.
NASSER ALSHAIKH AHMED is a SAUDI ARABIAN bilingual poet and prose writer. He writes poetry and short stories in Arabic and English. He went to school at Sonoma State University in California, USA. Although his field of study is far from literature, his soul is immersed in poetry and writing.
He is a member of:
1-All Poetry.com
2-Soul Asylum Poetry Radio. New York-USA
Poetry Anthologies
1- Voracious Polyglots-USA
2- The Quilled ink SOUTH AFRICA
3- Wheel song Poetry- UK
Online Magazines
1-Polis Magazino- Greece
2-ILA Magazine- USA
3- Grupo de trabajo de escritores ARGENTINA
3- www.youtube.com/c/Uddan Television
He has translated the works of several American, Japanese, and Australian poets from English to Arabic and published his translation in local journals. He has published a poetry book in Arabic ( العرافةara’fa) in 2013 by (Arabian house for science).
He has published an English poetry book (Whispered Vows) August 2023 by (WORLDWIDE PUBLISHER, JEANNETTE TIBURCIO MARQUEZ). He has published an English poetry book as a co-author with an American poetess (KRISTY RAINES FROM CALIFORNIA, USA) on 28th September 2025.
He has won the second prize in the Zheng Nian Cup China Literally Award! 2023. He was awarded on 14-10-2023 by the L.A. Seneca International Academic Literary Award from the Italian Academy of Philosophical Arts and Sciences, Bari, Italy.
Participated in the International Children’s Literature Forum in Dhaka, Bangladesh in December 2023,
Participated in Oman’s International Cultural Festival, April 2024
Participated in the Indian International Literary Meeting Forum in November 2024 in Kolkata West.