Nomad [Free Verse]

Photograph taken in the Parsi Temple of Baku, Azerbaijan.
One who doesn't feel 
a lot at home anywhere
Begins to feel a little
at home everywhere.

He sees not strangeness
in strangers --
No more than he sees
in himself.

Any one place is not
greater nor lesser
than anywhere else.

Lands of gold and riches
are as likely devoid of
authenticity - of soul -
as impoverished places
are dripping with it.

Stranger [Free Verse]

What a view --
Lying on one's back
In a strange land,
Seeing familiar skies,
&
Unfamiliar faces,
And wondering what kind
Of strange beast
They take one for --
On one's back,
In the churchyard
Of a strange land.