keskiviikko 28. syyskuuta 2022

18 LIVES LOST

Four more youths killed in Jenin
by Israel's occupation forces
on Wednesday;

that makes 18 human beings
killed by Israeli occupation
troops in September

on Palestine's occupied
West Bank, so far; 
but all the press

says is "Ukraine,
Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine,
Ukraine, Ukraine!"

28.09.2022


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tiistai 27. syyskuuta 2022

DART

We can now smash
open an asteroid
the size of a skyscraper,

but why not?
We have millions
of years

of experience
in how to smash
rocks - and hearts.

27.09.2022


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SILVER MOONLIGHT

All of us,
just withered leaves
fallen

in the freezing
autumn night,
yet

some
have silver moonlight
caressing them.

27.09.2022


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MY FAULT, OUR FAULT

It took almost a lifetime
for this man to come to understand
the justified bitterness
of women

in this world, in these
societies shaped and ruled
by men and our blind
beliefs, our willing ignorance.

27.09.2022


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AMONG THE LONG SHADOWS OF GRIEF

Lunar light bathes the September night,
cool light falling on colder graves,
the light of dead seas, the silence
of billions of years, shrouds
your resting places.

15.09.2017-25.09.2022


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THE MEMORY OF FLESH AND BLOOD

The gaze we saw fade
in the eyes of a departed
we see again blaze
in they eyes of a toddler,
in the walk of a child
we recognize the steps
of a lost one.

16.09.2020-27.09.2022


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THOSE WHO ARE NOT INTERESTED ABOUT HISTORY

Those who are not interested about history
are probably not also really
interested about the future;
our current moment is part of the past
of the future, part of the base
on which it will be built,
with rest of the human history.

05.02.2018-27.09.2022


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THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION SINGS OF EUROPEAN VALUES

1
Invasion can only be opposed in Ukraine,
everywhere else it must be supported,
for the sake of Ukraine!

Occupation can only be opposed in Ukraine,
everywhere else it must be supported,
for the sake of Ukraine!

Annexation can only be opposed in Ukraine,
everywhere else it must be supported,
for the sake of Ukraine!

2
If we wouldn't support invasions
for the sake of Ukraine,
what would happen to European values?

If we wouldn't support occupations
for the sake of Ukraine,
what would happen to European values?

If we wouldn't support annexations
for the sake of Ukraine,
what would happen to European values?

3
Only Ukraine!
Only Ukraine!
For the sake of European values,

only Ukraine!
Only Ukraine!
For the sake of European values,

only Ukraine!
Only Ukraine!
For the sake of European values!

27.09.2022


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maanantai 26. syyskuuta 2022

THE CRUELTY I HAVE WROUGHT

We
want the dying
to be polite, stoic,
to face their pain
and the end
of their lives,
bravely, without
causing trouble,
unneccessary turmoil
and grief
to ourselves
as their days
run out into
the abyss.

We
don't want to see
them angry,
so that we
won't be upset,
that we can
sail as smoothly
as possible
through this time,
their suffering,
their death,
into our lives
beyond their
death.

We
are cruel
and selfish,
we who one day
are expected
to play the same
final role,
to be stoic and
not to be a burden,
not to hurt those
who still have
their lives
opening out.

26.09.2022


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sunnuntai 25. syyskuuta 2022

THIS IS WHO AND WHAT I AM

The weaknesses,
but not the strengths,
of my immediate
ancestors:

This is who
and what
I am.

25.09.2022


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ACTIONS DEFINE YOU

You, the natural philosopher,
believe that you are
what you think,

but to everyone else
you are what
you do.

Actions define you.

25.09.2022


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QUEEN ELIZABETH II

Three weeks ago
it felt she had been
alive forever,

now it feels
like she has always
been dead.

25.09.2022


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THE AUTUMN DUSK AND THE AUTUMN NIGHT

The autumn sun descended
bathing the crowns of trees
in bright orange flames,
but here I stayed, sitting
before my computer,
reading the poems of others,
drinking mugs of coffee
in the stale indoor air,
and down went the sun,
from the ground rose
the shadow of the night,
throwing a black cape
over the cold land,
and here I still sit
before my computer,
writing poems,
drinking mugs of coffee
in the stale indoor air,
and outside a thousand stars
might be shining.

25.09.2022


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LABOUR FILES

Too often a modern journalist
is not a person who investigates,
who reveals information,
but instead hides what can
and controls the release
of what can't be hidden:
A censor.

25.09.2022


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THE GREAT CHAIN OF BEING

You think your life
is of no importance,
but your every act
affecting another
human being
will shape
their lives,
and through that,
for good or ill,
an ever expanding
circle of humanity,
in space and time,
will be affected
by you, as
long as there
are human beings.

25.09.2022


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torstai 22. syyskuuta 2022

torstai 15. syyskuuta 2022

FATHER

Oh, if you would be here to see how Kabul
has fallen like Saigon, the Americans
escaping... I can see you sitting
here, almost hear your voice...
What you would say
about 1975 now?

15.-19.08.2021-15.09.2022


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IT MATTERS NOT, THIS LIFE

It matters not, this life,
when it has run its course
and worms have had their fill,
yet it would make all the difference,
before the end, if we could
just pretend it would.
We all need our crutches
so that we can go on limping
to the awaiting silence.

01.05.-15.09.2022


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LEAVE GOOD MEMORIES

Only memories
will be left
when we are gone,

so leave
good memories
to those who shall

one day
bring flowers
on your grave.

21.04.2022


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WHEN YOU AWAKEN INTO THE NIGHT

  The beast crashing
through the window
in the eldritch moonlight
no dashing count
in black and crimson,
cape flowing;
in the shattering of glass
glimmer yellow fangs,
blood-red eyes brimming madness -
from death and hell arisen,
a vampire screaming in rage
and bloodlust towards
your bed plunges.

26.03.-15.09.2022


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MUSHROOMS

 All along the overgrowing
old forest road, abandoned
by wheels of cars and tractors,
mushrooms in the autumn gloom.

In the shade of the old trees surviving,
of the thicket grown a jungle
 on the logged side of the path, they
have their crisp fall resurrection. 

15.09.2022


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THE LAST AUTUMN

  It's always
the last
autumn for
someone.

One season
it will be for you.
Perhaps this
one.

Treat
this fall
like it would be
the last

you
walk among
falling leaves.

15.09.2022


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keskiviikko 14. syyskuuta 2022

EPITAPH

Women fear the men
and the men lust the women,
and any understanding
too late for them comes.

14.09.2022


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THIS GRIEF-CARVED LANDSCAPE

In mid-September, the foliage
of late August of my youth
robes the trees; a changed world,
and for the worse, and all of
it a mirror for my inner landscape
on this gray morning, with
rain and griefs pregnant -
a painting for the dime-store
Dorian Gray in me.

14.09.2022


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keskiviikko 7. syyskuuta 2022

HAPPY ARE THOSE WHO CAN BELIVE IN MEANING IN LIFE

What a misery it's to be
a human being without the illusions
which evolution, culture and society
have thrown as a veil over our reality
and our mind, which yearns
to be veiled and dreaming.

07.09.2022


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tiistai 6. syyskuuta 2022

ODE TO OLAF SCHOLZ

Germany pretends
that it has a conscience, pretends
as a nation and a state and a people,
pretends that it has a conscience
bleeding remorse. No.
It has nothing. No conscience,
no remorse.

It's national soul is that
of a very clear psychopath,
a master actor with many masks,
and behind the mask of Olaf Scholz
a chilling void in the mind.

Germany plays its pretension so well
that even the actor often believes in it.
Do not fall for it. If they would have
had Zyklon-B during the Drach Nach Osten,
in Rheinland during the First Crusade,
do you doubt they would have used it?

Hitler was not aberration; he was
the 'essential German', the beast
in full control of itself,
unleashed.

Inside every German Christian
lives a part of Hitler,
inside Hitler lived a part
of every Christian German.

Hitler is the ultimate truth about Germany,
a pile of bodies reaching from shore
to shore between blood-fed seas
and rivers, between bone-littered
time and the crimson sky
to which ashes eternally
rise as smoke.

06.09.2022


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maanantai 5. syyskuuta 2022

CHILE

I'm angry beyond words,
and you should be too,
if this shit is still happening
when you are reading,

the lies of the rich,
the fear of the native,
driving people to stick
a fork in their own eye.

05.09.2022


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lauantai 3. syyskuuta 2022

SOUTH GEORGIA ISLAND

Inspired by a tweet from @SophiesCatch.

On the blue waters
the sound of a fire crackling,
when atmospheric gas
in glacial ice melting
in contact with seawater
comes.

The sound of a world burning,
the sound of a world ending.

31.08.2022


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A CHRISTENING INTO THE RELIGION OF WAR

I have begun musketry. I have lectures on making maps.
Once a week we have night operations to get used to the sound
& sight of troops in the dark.
Once a week we have a march around Hampstead ending with a swim.

- Edward Thomas(1878-1917), September 3rd 1915.

So much a man has to learn
so that he can be allowed
to die for his country.

A map he has to make
to mark the place
where he would fall.

And once a week given
baptism in a river, without
hope of a resurrection,

for they are baptised
into the religion of war,
in which the wreaths

around the heads
of the fallen are made
out of their intestines.

03.09.2022


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perjantai 2. syyskuuta 2022

A WORLD ENSLAVED

A world in which the enslaved
are advised not to attack their enslaver
is a world without progress.

02.09.2022


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