Tower of Ivory
Poetry


The Enigma
by
Hooman Shahkar

Illustration by Julie A. Snyder

Worm said God is apple.
Canary said God is the hand full of seeds.
Goldfish called God
the water in aquarium.
Lion said God is jungle.
Human was quiet
with eyes wet.

The End


(c) 2002
By Hooman Shahkar
All Rights Reserved

Hooman Shahkar was born in 1968 in Tehrah, Iran. In 1999 he graduated from the University of Szeged, Hungary, where he studied medicine. He began writing peoms in 1997. "I believe all good things in Christianity, Bhuddism, Hinduism, Judaisim, Zoroastrianism and Islam."


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