tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6234336264495221080.post6919712391689783695..comments2023-04-09T06:44:53.958-07:00Comments on Dreamarines: Should Poetry Exist After Gaza?Jose Varghesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14350131287578876247noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6234336264495221080.post-50329542691448373682014-08-10T06:55:44.001-07:002014-08-10T06:55:44.001-07:00Here is another response from the well known Irish...Here is another response from the well known Irish poet William Wall on my Facebook link. I reproduce it here with his permission:<br /><br />William Wall ~ I was thinking about the same question at an earlier time, Jose. These are the answers, if answers they can be called, that I came up with. The poem is from my last collection Ghost Estate.<br /><br />Figures of speech<br />'To write a poem after Auschwitz is barbaric, & that corrodes also the knowledge which expresses why it has become impossible to write poetry today.'<br />Theodor Adorno, Prisms, 1955<br /><br />after abu ghraib he says<br />for others it was auschwitz<br />what can I say<br />art is in the unimaginable<br /><br />& nevertheless necessary<br />two sweet bodies lying down<br />the sweat the smell<br />naked<br /><br />sated or dead<br />figures of speech<br />we say what we're told<br />the unsayable unsaid<br /><br />we sup together<br />with a long spoon<br />we put something by<br />against the future<br /><br />clearly apprehended<br />though the present is closed<br />& call it love<br />a kind of insurance<br /><br />where a no-claims-bonus<br />costs you more<br />against the grievous<br />effigies of what we do<br /><br />chains of greed<br />chains of fear<br />rendered faithfully<br />by standard & poor<br /><br />our sentimental indices<br />our tectonic pain<br />half lamentation<br />half marching song<br /><br />our footfall<br />is a rift in tenebræ<br />a drowned city<br />& all our gates<br /><br />are desolate<br />still for tomorrow & today<br />silence is not enough<br />love is not enoughJose Varghesehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14350131287578876247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6234336264495221080.post-19740940312641330172014-08-09T00:40:45.736-07:002014-08-09T00:40:45.736-07:00Thank you very much Naseer ji for sharing the thou...Thank you very much Naseer ji for sharing the thoughtful poem here. I hope readers enjoy it as much as the ones featured in the post.Jose Varghesehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14350131287578876247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6234336264495221080.post-59665695940543492632014-08-09T00:24:42.587-07:002014-08-09T00:24:42.587-07:00GAZA'S CHILDREN
By: Naseer Ahmed Nasir
Gaza&...GAZA'S CHILDREN<br />By: Naseer Ahmed Nasir <br /><br />Gaza's children<br />Are playing<br />With real life bullets and bombs.<br />Giggling in the narrow lanes,<br />Laughing and playing as they run,<br />Between wall less houses and ageless eons.<br />Confronting tanks,<br />Turned into human shields.<br />Upon the wild beasts made of iron and fire,<br />With their tiny hands,<br />Casting stones.<br />Molding their flower, butterfly and bird-colored childhood,<br />Into history of barbarity and terror for the hereafter.<br /><br />Gaza's children,<br />Venture out with their school bags and books,<br />Above them deadly war hawks cruise,<br />Plunging down sporadically.<br />And below the vultures salivate,<br />Detecting odors of broken, fallen and bomb-blasted bodies.<br /><br />Gaza's children,<br />Shredded into tiny pieces they still live,<br />Looking for their severed limbs,<br />Eyes torn out of their sockets,<br />Tiny little hands still holding toys,<br />Looking at their mothers.<br />Broken cars, torn clothes and soccer balls,<br />Burnt arms and legs, mutilated dolls,<br />Shoes, laces and socks,<br />Bloodied fetuses peeking out of wombs<br />Ask.......<br />Which graves will conceive us now?<br />Which school rolls will enlist our names?<br />What world will have us as its citizens?<br />Which paradise will embrace us?<br />Holding torn pieces of our souls,<br />Are we destined to return to this hell again?<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06590777515249991932noreply@blogger.com