Writings in English
Tanka poems BY Salim Elias Madalo

On the shore
A fox howls
A seagull counts its sorrows
A bewildered penguin
And crashing sea waves
2-
A star twinkles in the sky
A white cloud flees
And on the shore
A seagull dreams of a luminous
Horizon and stillness
3-
In the barren meadow
A wounded dove—
Head and neck—
And a lover nightingale
Binding its wounds





