Night ascending,

the shadows on the ground

weaving it's web,

the sky immersing itself

in the black void.

The landscape closes

around us, as

the universe opens

above. Thoughts

of light give

way to cosmic dreams.

30.03.2012

Resurgere

Spring days rushing past us,

fleeing into the vastness of memory,

steps through the melting season

as the nature awakens,

almost immortal,

when we with every heartbeat

approach the moment of separation.

30.03.2013

The night an ocean of ink,

the Hadean depths of the day.

Through the night the hours crawl

carrying thoughts crushing their backs.

Enclosed in this cage of darkness

the mind walks around and around.

Somewhere is a door that leads

to the sprayed graffiti of sunrise.

30.03.2013

Between twilight and first light

1

The Moon howls in the sky

the forest in black chants

the words of the deepest night

the wind becomes intimate

the road - was it glass or ice?

2

On distant roads

cars sing their love songs

lost in the night

their lights searching

desperately each other

3

The houses in fetal positions

scattered in the dark

like lost children

afraid of the night's

black ink...

4

The faint whisper of light

in the horizon

telling of the coming splendour

of the day bathed

in fusion fire

29.03.2013

Israel's illegal Jewish Settlements

Today's tyrants are building

tomorrow's ruins.

Soon flowers shall grow

on the mounds

that will hide the

illegal settlers'

genocidal dreams.

29.03.2013

Sun shines deceptive
makes you believe

for a moment

that all is right

when existence is

smashed to pieces

torn into shreds

buried

all hope

gone

so cruel

to end up thinking

that all is well

when the spring Sun

shines above

golden trees

as crisp wind

cleans your lungs

28.03.2013

A life complete

The days are running away from us,

hours melting into the past,

minutes slipping past our fingers,

years spiralling into eternity.

We stand here, frozen

on the precipice of infinity

just watching

as time fragmented into a life

collects itself

as a unified whole for posterity

28.03.2013

Juan Ramírez de Lucas(1917-2010)

To Federico Garcia Lorca(1898-1936)

You shouldn't have loved a man, Federico,

who didn't even have the guts to renounce your killers

and go to exile. Oh no, Federico, he went

to Soviet Union in a Fascist uniform

to kill people to show his loyalty to Franco.

Instead of standing with you before rifles

and facing eternity with love

he went to stand behind rifles

and kill other Federicos.

28.03.2013

For Samer Issawi

Those who oppress others

oppress their own humanity,

imprisoning their conscience

with their victims.

Without empathy,

without conscience,

acting causing evil

the shape of a human

hides but a void.

27.03.2013

The light of distant stars comfort

when on Earth joy and hope

are rare.

Emerging from dark blue,

shining in darkness

above all the misery

human minds can wreak.

Their light

a touch of the cosmos,

the ancient that remains

when all of today

is no more.

27.03.2013

Fragments

 

1

We depart from this dream of life

to haunt those that remain

as shadows, echoes from the past.

2

The sharp dagger of memory

pierces even the most stoic mind.

3

Today is impaled by the lance

of past and only what was matters

as time dissolves

27.03.2013

All racist hate everywhere
giving rise to violence
is the same hate,
a fire that burns away
the lives of the victims
and the humanity of the attackers.

27.03.2013

Hope is a looted bank,

a bourse burned,

a palace in flames.

Hope is a

fleeing police officer

throwing his baton away,

a desperate politician

seeking a flight out

before the airports are closed.

Hope is a system destroyed,

a social hierarchy overturned,

all the pieces of capitalism

torn away and

thrown away.

Hope is a stone thrown,

a high street shop window smashed,

a graffiti sprayed -

the wailing sirens

as the flames spread

through the "better" neighbourhoods.

Hope is action

and action is hope,

the seeds of the future

and today's grave.

27.03.2013

 CHANGE THE WORLD

A world is an image

of the people dwelling in it.

Change the world by changing the people.

Change the people by giving them a mirror

to view themselves, giving a hand

when they want help changing themselves.

Let them then lead, follow behind

to help up those who fall,

offer guidance to those who err

and become lost.

When the people are on the correct path,

the world is on the correct path.

Help them to stay on the correct path

by making an example by following.

27.03.2013

Cosmic Orient Express

For M-K.K.K

Reading Orient Express throughout the night -

all those fictional people enclosed

in the train carriages surrounded by snow,

united with a common guilt,

find their real life equivalent

on this spaceship Earth.

7.1 billion passangers with no way out

from a failing ecosystem,

feuding fratricides

lacking  the unity of the jury of murderers.

27.03.2013

For Samer Issawi

On his 246th day on hunger strike

It's not the lack of food

that is killing you,

my hero,

it's the silence

that is killing you,

the people who know

but look away,

pretending that

they don't see.

24.03.2013

everyone who dehumanizes

his or her opponents

is an enemy of

the whole humanity

that tramples on our conscience

trying to make not only

his or her opponents

less than they are

but bystanders also

if they end up allowing it

24.03.2013

An evening Sun

on late March

pushing back

the realm of night

A messenger of

the coming Spring

going down beyond

the snowy hills

Last light caressing

the landscape

with the faintest

of touches

As the first stars

emerge in the

darkening blue

of heaven

23.03.2013

Our brief lives
can carry in them
enough sorrow
to fill a universe.

23.03.2013

Bruce Chatwin(1940-1989) in Chile

It takes a special kind of character

to be disappointed when told

that one can't visit

an active concentration camp.

23.03.2013

The local graveyard

There will come a day

when all visits to them

are visits to the graveyard;

all the important people

from the early part

of our lives

gathered again

in one place -

like in those memories

of family gatherings

in childhood.

Grand-parents, parents,

uncles, aunts, the

occasional great-aunt

or great-uncle,

cousins.

All together again

for us to visit.

23.03.2013

Remember this

Happiness is not something

that can be stored

for future use,

full advantage must

be taken of it immediately.

 23.03.2013

Time that let us

come into existence

one day stops us

at one moment

beyond which

we scatter as atoms

into inanimate matter

new beings

as part of the earth

part of the cosmos

22.03.2013

SARCASM

How many more
illegal settlements

Israel

has to be allowed
to build

before the Holocaust
done by

the Nazis

has been
succesfully stopped?

19.03.2013

A POEM WRITTEN AFTER HAVING READ AN EDITORIAL BY THE BRITISH NEWSPAPER THE GUARDIAN ABOUT BARACK OBAMA'S VISIT TO OCCUPIED PALESTINE

The oppressed have no right
to commit violence in self-defense,

but the oppressors have a right
to commit violence in support of oppression.

19.03.2013

Hugo Chavez(1954-2013)

First of all:

You didn't get everything right,

you made mistakes,

in some things you were wrong.

You were a human being.

But:

You were succesful in much

of what you tried to do,

and most of all,

you tried to better the lot of the poor,

the working class -

give them tools to uplift themselves

from poverty.

You tried,

when so many other politicians

didn't and don't.

For that,

I thank you.

For that,

I praise you.

19.03.2013

Orpheus turns

perhaps already hearing

a faint sound of the Bacchantes

coming from the future

he turns

and condemns Eurydice

to remain in Hades

a shadow

waiting for a shadow

until his head

severed

falls

in to the river

singing

19.03.2013

DOING AS THE ZIONISTS DEMAND...

Let's draw the maps then

like they were in the times of the Maccabees.

Let's move all the people

like they were when the Seleucids were falling.

Can you see the United States of America

on the map now, mister president?

Can you see the North America as a continent

of hundreds of millions of Europeans now,

mister president?

No, you can't, mister president,

no you can't.

18.03.2013

108

On the high plateau
bound by white mountains
bound by foreign arms

in the bright blazing anger

born from

oppression

suffering

humiliation

burns the flesh and life

of the tormented youth

burns the flesh and life

of the tormented nation

 18.03.2013

The memories of the past
weigh me down
more than years,

the past the mountain chain

that rises to view,

and I,

not an Atlas carrying them,

but their very roots

deep in the earth.

17.03.2013

Wise know their limits,

courageous try to exceed theirs.

One person can be both.

16.03.2013

the night dreams

of black depths

at the bottom of the ocean

of the void between stars

of the great emptiness

that comes

after all matter dies

16.03.2013

march morning

magpies and crows

on birch branches

under a blue sky

deep ocean
of air
rising to space

15.03.2013

TO MAHMOUD AL-TITI,

MURDERED BY ISRAEL ON 12TH OF MARCH 2013

IN HEBRON

A month ago

you drew pictures

of four of the political prisoners

on hunger-strike

Now you are dead

murdered

with illegal bullets

shot by a colonialist occupier

You are dead

the struggle continues

but you are dead

no more drawings

Just the soil

of the occupied motherland

for you

the injustice of death

You wanted to save others

save your motherland

and some colonialist occupier

wanted to murder a native

Killed you

getting away with it

like they always do

getting away with it

The murderer is free

the political activist is dead

the hunger-strikers closer to death

justice is buried with you

It could be reborn

what is denied to you

to flesh

an idea survives bullets

An idea survives

every injustice

rising up

from mortal flesh

No bullet can kill

hunger of freedom

thirst of justice

dignity bathed in innocent blood

14.03.2013

Mētēr

On days like these

with exuberant light

embracing landscape&mind

I sometimes forget

how late it is

how much has been lost

and wander lost

in pleasant thoughs

thinking it's another day

another year,

another decade

that the Sun

in the horizon of the mind

is still rising

not setting

that the paths taken

can still bring us

back to you.

13.03.2013

Life isn't meant to be fair,

it isn't meant to be anything,

it just is.

There's no destiny,

just blind chance.

Random events

colliding.

There is no

deeper meaning in life,

but all the meanings

you want to give to it.

13.03.2013

The years come
fleeting visitors
accompanying us
for a moment
then waving goodbye
the last one
leaving us
on the hospital door
at the cemetery gate

10.03.2013

Sun

yellow globe

above

white fields

of snow

Day

and

Night

Moon

white globe

above

blue fields

of snow

10.03.2013

In the forest

the boulders left behind

by the retreating glacier

still wait

it to come back

picking them up

to ride the white-blue ice
again

10.03.201

There is nothing

outside life for us,

like there is nothing

outside the universe

for the cosmos.

What exists beyond

exists beyond reach. 

 

09.03.2013

One can imagine the fear,

and be thankful

that what the mind can bring life to

is but a feeble echo

of reality, the thing that

happened to those

that died,

those that had to face their death

without a way to life,

without a way to resist anymore.

 And to those that calmly stood outside

the locked door,

to them this was just part of their daily work,

dreary except to those who burned

with the faith of the believer. 

They were full of the joy that

the worst of us feel in places like these.

The rest were wondering

what all workers bored of their work do:

how would the days football matches go?

What they would eat in the evening,

what they would read before sleep would come,

could they afford a new child with the current income?

The everyday reality behind horror.

As people died, others waited anxiously

that they could go and buy new cigarettes,

or go ask the nice girl in the village nearby

for a date.

25.01.2004