"Vision is perhaps our greatest strength... It has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries,
it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown.
Li Ka Shing
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Diallo's three volume poetic work (Praises and Light; Gabriel's Tears: In the Footsteps of the Beloved and Sacred Fire) is a spiritual tale borrowing from the ancient Persian lyrical style Attar and Rumi were famous for. A 13th century mystic and poet, Rumi has been America's top selling poet for a couple of years. Attar, a Persian poet and man of wisdom, is the author of The Conference of the Birds, a highly praised work of lyrical spirituality from which Diallo's thematic work draws its influence.
Diallo's poetic tale highlights the story of an Eastern spiritual traveler, called a "Dervish" or "Sufi" (ascetic from ancient India and Persia), who embarks on a search to find the Divine. With the help of Saint Georges, the Patron Saint of the Catholic Church of England and of Archangel Gabriel, the Dervish experiences spiritual cycles of blissfull union and painful separation until he finally realizes that the reality he was seeking was hidden inside of him.
To read more about Diallo's spiritual poetry, see his upcoming book Gabriel's Tears: in the Footsteps of the Beloved. This book is an updated English version of his French work Le Soleil des Mendiants.
In 2010, Diallo wrote and promoted a French poem in honor of Haiti to support the Haitian people after the 2010 earthquake. This poem, called After The Storm, was featured and read on various interntational community radios.
A few translated and unpublished poems
