Shakil Ahmed Ismail Tambey Biography
I came to poetry late - when I was thirty-three in fact. Previously I had been an environmental scientist and geographer. I believe that poetry is a very responsible discpline and the message of the poet has to be a constructive, realistic and truthful one. I also believe that poets have the grave calling to instill hope and optimism in the public. And if that fails, then they ought to make their readers feel good. Poetry has the ability to create the 'feel good factor' and can often have a therapeutic effect.
A good deed is something so wonderful
It cannot be adequately reciprocated -
Especially if that good deed
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There is something different
about you every day -
you have a style -
a new manner -
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I was one afflicted
With need for beauty,
My most urgent and ardent
Thirst and hunger -
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To visualize and comprehend difficulty
Is to apprize oneself of intellect and beauty;
Difficulty, and illness actualizes the need
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