THE METALLURGY OF A WINTER DAY

Sky grey shrouds, the earth white snow,

light the steel and snow of cloud.

Short hours drift away, but clouds,

the shrouds of heaven, stay,

and bestow the night's

black cast iron.

23.-24.12.2024

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BOYCOTT ISRAEL

The Israeli regime burned alive,

again, displaced people

sheltering in tents,

people it had bombed

out of their homes,

and now it came

to take their lives.

Think about this, hard,

and be angry, and then act.

23.-24.12.2024

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TURN TO THE FUTURE

The past is lost, the future

is there to be regained,

to be held fiercely until torn

from our failing grasp.

23.-24.12.2024

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GAZA

So many dead children,

each day so many dead

children, each day

and so many days

of so many dead children

in Palestine, in Gaza

on the conscience

of humanity, on our

shared conscience.

23.-24.12.2024

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EACH DAY A LONG STRUGGLE TO SURVIVE ENDS

 Each day people who have survived

the genocide until then are murdered

in their dozens; their long desperate

struggle ends in their murder,

and its noted down how long they

survived. Survived for 443 days,

hoped, hoped and struggled

and dreamed until the missile

or the bullet came.

23.-24.12.2024

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THE REALITY OF GAZA STRIP

A dog eating the exposed ribcage

of a man laying on a street,

a cat eating a severed human foot.

These photographs are hidden

from the world as "too graphic"

by the media -

one can't shock people who

ignore an ongoing genocide.

23.12.2024

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BURNING MAN AT THE ENTRANCE OF KAMAL ADWAN HOSPITAL

The body of a man is burning

at the entrance of the Kamal Adwan

hospital after Israel's occupation forces

attacked him, his clothes and flesh

alive, and no one can reach him,

this symbol of abandoned

humanity, betrayal

by humankind.

23.12.2024

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KAMAL ADWAN HOSPITAL

If Kamal Adwan hospital would be

in Ukraine, what headlines we would

have in the 'Western' press, furious

journalist after another condemning

the attacker, celebrating the steadfast

heroism of the besieged surviving staff,

patients, displaced people sheltering

inside its walls while the occupier

sends quadcopters, robots, snipers

and missiles against them.

But now, Kamal Adwan hospital

being in occupied Palestine's

destroyed northern Gaza Strip,

attacker being the holiest

of the holy cows of the 'West',

Apartheid Israel's regime,

the 'Western' press tells as little

as it can, the Fourth Estate

just another of Israel's weapons

tormenting the people of

Kamal Adwan hospital.

23.12.2024

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READING NERUDA

Reading Neruda, and through

Neruda, reading the past,

all the gone years, printed

in memory, thirty-five years

of reading Neruda, and each

printed page read changes

one in the mind.

23.12.2024

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UNTIL

The years and the embedded

dreams dry dust, until wind

comes strong enough to

blow them away.

23.12.2024

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THE MASSACRE OF THE ABU SAMRA FAMILY

The day before yesterday the Israeli

regime murdered the Abu Samra

family, turned their home into

rubble pile, stole all their coming

years, stole their shared past,

broke and made cold their living

flesh. Only because it could.

Boycott Israel to bring

justice to them!

23.12.2024 

ON HIS WAY TO ARRAS

I'm translating Edward Thomas, the mood

demands it, leads me to him, to his words

written in those brief years before France,

the images they bring forth in my mind,

I the reader singing silently what the poet

composed, truthful, straying, improvising,

and still I know that it should be a land

farther in distance but shared in time

that I should bring to my language,

giving justice to the hospital floors

covered in dead children we see

each day, children who should've

lived as long as is the distance

from me to Thomas, walking in his

rural vistas, on his way to Arras.

23.12.2024

ALWAYS THE SAME

Israel's propagandists are promoting the same kind of hateful pro-genocide lies that we have seen before across the globe during previous modern genocides.

Change few words and the words could be from a monk of the 969 Movement promoting genocide in Burma / Myanmar, a Rwandan radio jockey during the genocide, or a Serbian instigator during the wars of the former Yugoslavia.

Hate can wrap itself in many flags,

but it's always the same hate.

10.10.-23.12.2024

FALLEN LEAVES AND WITHERED GRASS

The land has become white

and black again, and all those

days of the long, quickly passing,

months of spring and summer

fallen leaves and withered grass

under the heavy blanket, more

dead than asleep, not awakening

but resurrecting, when the brooks

of spring will sing with the voice

of melted snow and ice, and my

feet will find a quicker step,

walking over fallen leaves

and withered grass.

23.12.2024

HE HAS TO WAIT OVER THE CHRISTMAS DAYS

He has to wait

over the Christmas days

to get his gift,

anticipation

aflame each moment

he thinks about it,

visions flashing

through his mind,

stirring his flesh.

23.12.2024

 

WAY DOWN

That one kiss emoji from

her on that one photo

- he could feel it, down

on his flesh...

23.12.2024

BLESSED BE THOSE WHO EVOKE THE LUSTY THOUGHTS

Blessed are lusty thoughts on the darkest

days of the year: Their fire burns bright and hot,

lights the winter dark, and keeps the body

warm and the mind non-heeding of the snow

swirling through the black hours, gripped

by its need to feel flesh to flesh merge.

Blessed are lusty thought on the darkest

days of the year and blessed be those

who evoke the lusty thoughts.

22.12.2024

HAUNTINGLY REAL

To his muse

Awakening and lingering at the edge

of departing dreams, remembering

the flesh against his that withdraws

with the dream, the touch of the skin

against his, the long, slow joining

of bodies, his moment of fulfillment,

all disappearing, becoming an echo

of something briefly hauntingly real

as this life awake itself.

19.12.2024

THE DEMOCRATS WHO BLAME HARRIS' DEFEAT ON OPPONENTS OF THE GENOCIDE

You are telling us that the genocide under Biden

is a better, more gentle genocide,

an acceptable genocide,

and that under Trump there

will be a worse genocide,

one that you nevertheless will accept,

like this one,

that you even look forward to it,

because people dared to demand

an end to the genocide from Harris.

18.12.2024

YOURS

Yours, she writes

and shows what is his,

what drives visions

and words and keeps

him standing erect,

for her wonder,

for her.

04.-16.12.2024

HIS TURN

Now it is him who is also giving

her these gifts, from gratitude

 and the sheer delight of being

able to give her some pleasure,

whether a seed of desire, or a smile,

a laugh, amidst the bleak winter

of the world, when flowers

are dead under the ruins,

and every moment of desire,

every smile and laugh,

is to be cherished.

14.-16.12.2024

TO BE THE HAND

To be the hand between

her thighs, exploring,

to be the hand between

her thighs, playing,

to be the hand between

her thighs, giving.

03.-16.12.2024

EVERY HOUR A CHILD DIES IN GAZA

Every hour a child dies in Gaza,

their heart beating for the decades

to come, for the many joys

and long sorrows of a life

expected, ceasing,

the lives that extended

to the next century

coming to an end under rubble,

in a pool of blood on a street corner,

in a blazing tent that gave

no protection against cold or missile,

on the operating table of a hospital

half-ruined, what could have saved

them denied by the killer.

Every hour a child dies in Gaza.

16.12.2024

A REFUGE TO GENOCIDAIRES

Modern Israel is not a refuge to victims of a genocide,

Israel is a refuge to those who commit genocide.

Now, as the world watches.

16.12.2024

READING THE PAST

All the grief and sorrow, the pain

we feel is like those of people before

us, both remembered and gone

and forgotten, and others will be

feeling the same, this pain on some

coming days, and our suffering now guide

or panacea for them, perhaps. But at least

we know we are not alone, even if

separated by time, in these feelings

that gnaw yet bind us, when

we put them down, briefly,

until they are again

dust like us.

29.11.-16.12.2024

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TRANSLATING POETRY

You try to keep true the voice

of the dead, yet it's like making

a death mask - it looks close

enough, yet not exactly, for

death had changed them -

and words in another

language not their own, even 

if resurrecting the spirit,

lack something, and have

some not in the original;

they are trying to bring back

the mammoth with a mix

of elephant genes and you

do the same with poems,

out of necessity.

14.-16.12.2024

THE LAND DREAMS

The winter threw a blanket over the land,

a heavy white one, yet the land shivers

under it as it sleeps, cold dreams rising

from the memories in its rocks, its soil,

of great sheets of ice, a heavier blanket,

pressing it down for a hundred thousand

years of cold winter without a spring.

Until the snow first melts and flows

in singing rivulets across its surface,

the land will not dream of spring,

but shivers in its sleep, feeling

the weight of the great ice.

15.-16.12.2024

A CIRCLE

 People who have justified Zionism 

with a past genocide 

now justify an ongoing genocide

with Zionism.

16.12.2024

TREAT THEM ACCORDINGLY

Those who support Israel support Apartheid,

ethnic cleansing, genocide, murder, rape and torture.

That's the kind of people they are,

no matter their appearance.

Ethnic cleansers, genocidaires, murderers,

rapists, segregationists and torturers,

co-collaborators in crimes against humanity.

Treat them accordingly.

16.12.2024

PUT THE BLAME WHERE IT BELONGS TO

First Israeli Apartheid was 'normalized' 

by Western governments and press.

Then endless military occupation by Israel was "normalized¨

by Western governments and press.

And now genocide by Israel has been "normalized¨

by Western governments and press.

16.12.2024

SUPPORTERS OF ISRAEL'S REGIME

They claim they suppose Israel

because of the Holocaust,

because of Judaism, because

of supposed democracy,

but the real reason why they support

Apartheid Israel's genocidal regime

in 2024 are the atrocities Israel

carries out against innocent people.

For everyone knows what Israel

is and what it does, Apartheid

and endless occupation turned

into genocide. Everyone knows.

15.12.2024

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UNDER THE RUBBLE, THE LIVING AND THE DEAD

They are under the rubble

tonight in Gaza gone dark,

the living bleeding to death

in their tombs that were home,

and the already dead and lost,

those still flesh and those of bone,

unreachable in their mausoleums

in their thousands, buried

too deep under the remains

of their stolen lives.

14.12.2024

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ONE MOMENT OF BLISS

He dreams himself

between her thights,

inside her in a furious

coupling of flesh,

one moment of bliss

in a world wailing

beyond dream

and flesh.

09.-14.12.2024

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TRANSLATING YEATS

Coming back from images of death

and broken human flesh, I translate

Yeats for fifteen, twenty minutes in

this darkness of the night and the world,

 but I have little stamina for Ben Luka,

thoughts wander far and wide, little

patience to gather them and drive

on with a whip to make the work

complete this night. Another

day, after more death and broken

flesh, will see it done, it has waited

a century to be done, it can wait

a day, as thoughts like chill wind

move forlown among bare branches

of the mind's dark, shaken forests.

14.12.2024

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A MUSEUM OF EUROPEAN COLONIALISM

Apartheid Israel doesn't exist to give a safe haven

for a persecuted nation, but as a horror show of inhumanity,

a museum of European colonialism, and a theater stage

for millennial religious fantasies demanding real blood

in sacrifice to bring out dead gods, the Christian zealots

wading in blood of Palestinian children waiting for

their heavenly Jerusalem when the earthly

Jerusalem weeps under military boot.

13.03.2024-12.12.2024

MARS AND VENUS, THE BRINGERS OF WAR NO LONGER

No longer do planets send

people to war, no longer do

wars end. They go on, brutal

affairs, even after nominal

ceasefires, or become endless

military occupations, remembered

only when the occupiers die,

while the occupied bleed

in silence until then, and

are returned to silence

after the press becomes

bored or the slaughter

too great for the taste

of the occupier's friends

and must be hidden from

eyes and consciences.

No longer do planets

send people to war,

but this planets

bleeds in wars.

12.12.2024

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BURNING THROUGH ALL THOUGHTS

At the end of a long night,

before the dawn casts its dim

light over the wintry wastes,

suddenly scorched in lust,

desire a hot summer sun

burning through all thoughts.

09.12.2024

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VISUAL MAGIC

One image, and then

standing hard in attention,

transfixed, throbbing,

until bursting relief

comes in a white rush.

09.12.2024

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FROM ONE IMAGE

A forest of words grows burning,

from one alluring mage scattering

sparks yet standing,

tall trunks blazing, unloading

their seeds of words...

09.12.2024

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VISIONS AWAKE MORE BLESSED

He was tired, a bit ill still, and ready

to call it a night and go and sleep,

emerging in some future moment,

having dived through time - but now,

how could he sleep, seeing only

that one image, burned in his

mind, overlaying everything...

Visions awake more blessed

than any dream that could come.

09.12.2024

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IF ONLY

If only it would be his

hand there, between

the thighs...

- and in his vision,

it is, and more

than his hand...

09.12.2024

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I WAS WRONG ABOUT SYRIA

The Baath regime was terrible,

but the Jihadists should lose

the peace, if there will be peace.

I don't see a path there, or to

peace, but I didn't see a path

to this either, having given up

on all but the Kurds, and even

with them, despairing, betrayed

to Turkey and its Jihadists by USA.

But it's enough if the Syrian

people see a path, to peace,

to deny power to Jihadists,

to deny Syrian land to Israel

and Turkey and the United

States. I hope they travel such

a path until to its end, and

get the reward of peace and

foreign boots off their soil.

09.12.2024

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SCHRÖDINGER'S SYRIA

Quite the conundrum for the 'West' -

at the same time it must celebrate

the fall of the Baath regime in Syria

and defend Israel's occupation forces

occupation of more Syrian territory

and its largescale bombing of Syria.

"Schrödinger's Syria" - at the same

time liberated, a great victory,

but a threat to the Israeli regime

which must be faced with violence...

09.12.2024

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HE JUST CAN'T HELP IT

He just can't help it -

gazing at her image

has to call a vision

of his muse before him,

and in his pocket universe

of the mind, throw everything

off from the table before him,

push her on it, and join her

flesh with wild, desperate

thrusts of his yearning loins.

18.07.-03.12.2024

A WONDERFUL MADNESS

How could he not fall under the spell

of those words of hers, these images

they evoked? They made him burn

with lust. He knew that it was mad,

but he had been sane so long, what

was madness as wonderful as this

compared to stale, dry sanity? 

17.07.2024-11.09.2024

BE UP TO IT

Be gentle, yet be hard,

her pussy doesn't deserve

anything less, pound

her until she comes,

his fair muse.

19.-20.09.2024

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MORE THAN WHAT WANTON IMAGONATION OFFERS

His muse should be proud

of the effect she has on him;

each day he dreams of pulling

those knickers down, one day

with his trembling hands, on

another with his eager teeth.

Each day he dreams that,

and hopes she would let

him see with more than what

wanton imagination offers,

fixing the vision with a click.

01.10.-03.12.2024

WILD THOUGHTS AND DESIROUS WORDS

Here he is, incapable

of but imagining

her laying before him,

waiting with her legs

open and pussy bare,

the only way he can have

her, wild thoughts

and desirous words,

visions that feed the lust

for which he begs from her

yet more alluring kindlings.

12.11.-03.12.2024

WHATEVER SHE WISHES IS GOOD

His mind throws visions

of all kind of positions,

from the mundane to

the stranger kind from Kama Sutra,

but even gripped by lust,

the voice of reason says,

also yearning but firm:

- Whatever she wishes is good.

18.11.2024

ALWAYS READY

It stands erect, with martial ardor rife,

A joyous soldier! 

Victor Hugo(1802-85): Eviradnus the Errant Knight

I'm keeping

it up

for you,

and anytime

you wish,

ask and you

are given

a show

of my devotion.

18.-21.11.2024

LONGING

He looks at those crossed legs

partly covered  in white,

and a fever of desperate

lust takes over, and that minx

not under him, joining him,

an unreachable siren

except in the visions

now filling his mind.

12.11.2024

DENIZENS OF AN INSANE ASYLUM

According to pundits in the 'West',

Palestinians are "Iranian proxies"

whose genocide by Israel

is "fighting Antisemitism",

each new massacre new victory

"in the fight against Jew-hate",

while in Syria the rebranded al-Qaeda

are "liberating" the country

and Aleppo's fall to them

heralds Russia's defeat in Ukraine,

while a BBC journalist tells

that the Jihadists success in Syria

is thanks to air-strikes

by the mighty Israel,

yet Jihadists' success also makes

poor little Israel afraid.

This is the mental landscape

of an insane asylum.

02.12.2024