Haiku
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after New Fairy Tale by Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky (Russia), 1891 C.E.
for Nikolaos Karfakis & Cameron A. Batmanghlich
Mayflies and fireflies—
Fables will need re-scribing.
Who shalt volunteer?
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after Lotus by Martiros Sarian (Armenia), 1911 C.E.
for Nashwa Y. Butt
Moon-baskin’ red pine!
Wood owl orchestrates a hoot:
Star lotus shies, swings.
Hay(na)ku
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after The Meeting of the Illusion and the Arrested Moment – Fried Eggs Presented in a Spoon by Salvador Dali (Spain), 1932 C.E.
for Ayesha A. Khan
Water-Beetle—
Your love.
Gracias, I’ll pass.
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after Interior with a Bowl with Red Fish by Henri Matisse (France), 1914 C.E.
for Maraam Pasha
fish;
glass bowl—
transparent: inside, outside.
One-Liner Aphorisms
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(Geo-sociopolitical) Paradigmatic Shift
after Geopolitical Child Watching the Birth of the New Man by Salvador Dali (Spain), 1943 C.E.
for Meg Pokrass
The onset of the A.I. Age will render the Homo Sapiens (‘Thinking/Wise Man’) a museum artifact (?)
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The Absurd Brachyura that got Clasped in the Chelae of Metaphysics
after The false mirror by Rene Magritte (Belgium), 1928 C.E.
for L. Jacobs & E. Rahim
In the very essence, both the prefixes—mono ‘n poly—bear the same in/ex/trinsic value!
Saad Ali (b. 1980 CE in Okara, Pakistan) – bilingual poet-philosopher & literary translator – has been brought up and educated in the UK and Pakistan. He holds a BSc and an MSc in Management from the University of Leicester, UK. His new collection of poems, Owl Of Pines: Sunyata (AuthorHouse, 2021), is an homage to vers libre, prose poem, and ekphrasis. He has translated Lorette C. Luzajic’s ekphrases into Urdu. His poetry and micro/flash fiction appear in The Ekphrastic Review, The Mackinaw, Synchronized Chaos, Lotus-eater, two Anthologies by Kevin Watt (ed.), and two e-Anthologies at TER. He has been nominated for the Best of the Net Anthology. His ekphrases have been showcased at the Bleeding Borders, Art Gallery of Grande Prairie in Alberta, Canada. Some of his influences include: Vyasa, Homer, Attar, Rumi, Nietzsche, Dostoyevsky, Freud, Jung, Kafka, Tagore, Lispector et alia. He enjoys learning different languages, playing chess, travelling by train, and exploring cities/towns on foot. To learn further about his work, please visit: www.facebook.com/owlofpines.