RAS AL KHAIMAH: WILLIAMSJI MAVELI WRITES

Ras Al Khaimah *

 (an Emirates name in United Arab Emirates)

The green hills of Ras Al Khaimah Stands

Amongst the shining heaps of sands

It’s deep blue sea is roaring

While the camel groups are roaming

Living amidst the camels

Beduvians nurture animals

Lives by eating their flesh

And the meat  seems to be fresh

Drinks the milk for their diet

Staples of break-fast  are met

Yields cloth for their shelter

Traditionally despise manual labour

Their life dwells in small  tents

Or in the valleys and mountains

By

 Williamsji Maveli

RAS AL KHAIMAH, WILLIAMSJI MAVELI WRITES

On the top of the tent *
 (means Ras Al Khaimah in Arabic)

A Beduvian's  adventurous story
Since  long time ago in Arab history,
a  desert tribal group  who   roamed
in and around the desert land,
on the sides of  the hills of sand
Peacefully, friendly hand in hand
lived a life of hardships on demand.
under the shades of the green spring
They flew together like falcon wing.
With the soaring heat of summer,
hearing the beats of the drummer
They gathered under the huts  of
  Ras Al Kaimah

To eat out  their hunger

and to quench their  anger;

their  her lips  were  dry,

still they did  not cry.

blistered and peeling,

without anything to their feeling.

A life they held sacred and dear.

Then in the nights  of  fear

some way it  happened through ...

the life of Beduvians

in Ras Al Khaimah

*

By

Williamsji Maveli

  WILLIAMSJI MAVELI , A FORMER JOURNALIST WAS BASED IN RAS AL KHAIMAH  EMIRATE OF UNITED ARAB EMIRATES FOR ABOUT 30 YEARS.IN THE PICTURE, WILLIAMSJI RECITES, ONE OF HIS ENGLISH POEMS AT THE RAS ALKAIMAH KERALA SAMAJAM.