THE DALAL FAMILY MASSACRE ON WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29TH 2025

Ameen Abu Dalal and his family

survived 24 months and three weeks

of genocide, and Ameen worked

hard for The Sameer Project

at the Refaat Alareer Camp

helping others, helping to feed

the starving. And twice they

believed themselves saved

as ceasefires came, believed

themselves survivors, dreamed

of rebuilding their lives, dreamed

of the children growing up -

there was, again, a future.

And on Wednesday, as they slept,

Israel killed Ameen, killed his wife,

killed their children,

killed his brothers, killed their wifes,

killed their children.

Israel killed 18 people from the family.

Only survivors wife of one brother

and their child evacuated abroad

for medical aid. Everyone else

was killed by Israel. Everyone.

Boycott Israel to end the genocide,

boycott Israel to end the occupation,

boycott Israel to end Apartheid,

boycott Israel to free Palestine,

boycott Israel to end Israel.

31.10-02.11.2025

TOO BRITTLE?

October over,

and what I have done?

I have written

and what else?

Shouldn't words

be more than words

and not stay on pages

as crude ornaments

to merely drive away

the white wastes

that terrify the mind?

Shouldn't words lead

to action, shouldn't

words be forged into swords?

But perhaps the metal

of the words is too brittle.

31.10.2025

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WHEN THE DREAM ENDS

Awakening, reaching

for her

and not finding her

yet standing hard

for her

to give release

as she would please.

30.10.2025

THE HARVEST

The turning seasons,

millstones of Time,

grind the flour

from our harvested lives,

and leave us chaff

to be fed to the soil.

30.-31.10.2025

ISRAEL KILLS ITS WAY THROUGH CEASEFIRES IN GAZA AND LEBANON

Israel has killed four people in Gaza

today and is bombing Lebanon,

killing two so far on Friday,

yet these attacks don't break the ceasefire,

according to the United States

and the European Union;

according to the European Union,

they only "test" it, at most "endanger" it,

but can never break the ceasefire

because Israel can never break a ceasefire,

it's like breaking the Second Law of Thermodynamics

according to the European Union,

impossible because Israel

"is Europe's greatest achievement

since the Second World War"

according to Ursula von der Leyen,

and the United States says

that thousands of Israeli attacks

are just "limited", everyone targeted

is Hamas or Hezbollah, and that ceasefire

actually means Israel has a right to kill

as long as it says it targets

Hamas or Hezbollah. Ceasefire,

United States says, can only end

when Israel says the ceasefire

is over, no matter how many are killed

as long as they are not Israeli Jews.

31.10.2025

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THEY TELL NOTHING SHOULD BE DONE TO STOP THE GENOCIDE UNTIL THE WORLD COURT RULING

People and organizations

that have dedicated their existence

to asking why the Holocaust

was allowed to happen

now tell us that nothing should be done

to stop the genocide of occupied Palestinians

by Apartheid Israel's regime

until the World Court rules in 2028

whether the slaughter is officially a genocide

or not, and until then, there should be no

sanctions, no punishment for Israel,

nothing should be done to stop the slaughter.

And what, in 2028,

will these people and organizations say?

We know: They will say the ruling

is biased and 'antisemitic',

and anyway, too late

to do anything, so nothing should be done

except forget and forgive Israel -

and remember the lessons of the Holocaust...

When they have forgotten -

or never learned -

the lesson of the Holocaust

that genocide is always wrong

and all must act to end it.

31.10.2025

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LOST AND NOT LOST

I get lost in enticing words,

following paths

they form for thoughts,

not lost as

not knowing the way back,

but lost as

each new sight appearing

lures one forward,

and days and years

slip past

until I will walk

under leafless branches,

among felled trunks

and tree stumps.

31.10.2025

ISRAEL CAN'T BREAK THE CEASEFIRE, NO MATTER HOW MANY PEOPLE IT KILLS - ACCORDING TO THE UNITED STATES

Since its cabinet accepted the ceasefire

(half a day after the ceasefire

was agreed to take effect,

with dozens of people killed in those hours)

Israel has killed 214 people,

almost half of them children,

in occupied Palestine's Gaza Strip.

This, according to the United States,

doesn't break the ceasefire.

Just like Israel killing almost 280 people

in Lebanon in around 4500 attacks

after the ceasefire took effect

doesn't break the ceasefire

according to the United States.

31.10.2025

IN SOCIAL MEDIA

The "Holocaust justifies Genocide

and Apartheid"

                           -people

always post little to nothing

about the Holocaust

- except in the context

of using it to

                       'justify'

Genocide and Apartheid.

31.10.2025

THE LIKES OF SIR KEIR STARMER

'Moderate' politicians bet everything

on hate, genocide and billionaires

and are surprised

that these things are not as popular

as the donations to them from

genocidaires and billionaires

made them believe. Hate

was supposed make them

soar in polls, reap the harvest

of blood-soaked votes.

31.10.2025

THE TURNING SEASONS

The turning seasons

millstones grinding

in the mill of Time

make flour of what

is good in us

and leave us chaff.

30.10.-15.11.2025

PAST THE WINTRY WASTES

Another bleak day,

one in a line of gray

menhirs reaching

for the distant sea,

the blue deep beyond

the desolate fall,

past the wintry wastes,

in the green spring to come.

30.-31.10.2025

ONE IN A LINE OF GRAY DAYS

Another bleak day,

one in a line of gray

menhirs reaching

for the receding sea

of summer green

past the desolate fall,

past the wintry wastes,

in the distant spring

ice breaking

before waves of green.

30.-31.10.2025

BEFORE SLEEP

I go through my collection

of gifted cards,

trying to embed in my brain

images that will beget

dreams of delight.

30.10.2025

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LIKE LEAVES STRIPPED FROM THE BRANCHES

Beyond midnight,

seven hours to light

and the deep

night of sleep calling

scatters the words

flowing from the brain

fourteen hours straight

like leaves stripped

from the branches.

30.10.2025

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BUT ABOVE THE CLOUDS

No stars,

night all darkness,

but above the clouds

they are shining

so bright.

29.10.2025

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A FRAGMENT

The day that teased blue

grows dim; grey clouds

hiding depths briefly glimpsed

growing dark, engulfed

by the night rushing

from its subterranean lairs,

and stars shine bright

beyond the devoured clouds.

07.-29.10.2025

SCENES OF AUTUMN

The dark shapes

of birds darting

in the solitude

of the clouded sky

over the still and silent,

darkly unreflecting

waters of the lake,

vanishing.

The bared trees

shivering  in chill

gusts of wind

shaking drops of water

from branches

on their withered leaves fallen

on lichen and the dead grass

below, earthen colours

growing dark in the waning light.

28.-29.10.2025

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NO MATTER HOW

No matter how

he tries to write

of other subjects now -

how the dark shapes

of the birds dart

in the solitude

of the clouded sky

over the still and silent

dark waters of the lake -

he can't but think

of her open thighs,

how her feet on his shoulders

he would merge

with her, that tormenting

bliss half-lived

is the crafting mind's solid

ground under all the daily

verse that is but flotsam

the rising tide brings,

the receding tide takes out -

the bare trees

shivering in the breeze,

dripping water from the branches

on the fallen leaves resting

on lichen and the dead grass -

and in his mind

he sees them among the leaves

entangled,

and the articulate protests

of the logical mind -

cold, wet, you both will get a flu

or pneumonia - fall

aside like the leaves;

all the changing seasons

have under them

the same solid ground of the mind

that lets imagination experience

what reality in autumn would restrict

to a rug beside a hot tilestove.

28.-29.10.2025

EVEN THE SHIVERING TREES

Even the shivering

trees

stripped 

of their leaves

make him think

of her, how

he, like the chill

wind,

would bare

her to his touch,

cold fingers

warming

on her skin.

28.-29.10.2025

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ON THIS AUTUMN DAY

It seems I can't stop

the coming of the words

on this autumn day,

nothing but words

and a short walk

in the entire day,

words like fallen leaves

on both sides of that half an hour,

nothing but words,

and how much do words

weight in the scales

against Maat's feather?

29.10.2025

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WHAT ONLY THE SPRING

In late autumn,

on the edge of winter,

the world grows desolate,

becomes thin, frayed,

a spoiled thing,

and then comes

the covering shroud

hiding what only

spring turning summer

will mend in light and life.

29.10.2025

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IN LATE AUTUMN

From green

gone to gold

and red and brown,

and soaked

on the ground,

trampled,

rests the summer

in the leaves.

29.10.2025

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IN THE LATE OCTOBER

The tall evergreens

stand still and dark in the wan light,

and everywhere the dead grass

of summer around the brooding

trees carries a carpet of

fallen leaves, gazing

at them part of the mind

remembers the sound they made

rustling in the wind

of the season buried in them.

The summer dead at their feet,

the firs and pines, unmoving

and unmoved, brood on.

28.-29.10.2025

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REFLECTED LIGHT

Days without writing

poems, and then

yesterday a day for words

of others, for dead voices

being given different garments

in my mind, like changing

clothes on paper dolls,

and today, feeling a bit rusty

letting own words come to knit

sentences into verse again.

Yet how much

here is reflected light

from yesterday?

how like the innocent

thief Moon is dressed

in the brilliant light of the Sun,

are the verses here

rags from the robes

those dead voices still hold,

stolen paper garments

given for myself to wear?

28.-29.10.2025

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T-SHIRTS

Everything can arouse

him in her:

Hearing her voice

makes him of think

how it would sound

reaching bliss,

and the t-shirts,

oh, the t-shirts -

the innocent t-shirts,

they remind him

of everything underneath.

28.-29.10.2025

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BACK FROM MY SHORT WALK

It's twenty-four to five

and I will be making coffee

black as the coming night,

and with a big mug in my hand

will sit down before

the computer to drag

the translation of Celandine

by Edward Thomas

over the finishing line

drawn by my mind;

on one side raw,

on the other good enough.

And later I will come back,

and see all the problems

I missed when, relieved,

I declared it to be good enough.

This is the way with things,

but it's the only way

to get things done,

even these little things, in life:

Accepting imperfection at first

and later polishing.

29.10.2025

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SITTING DOWN TO WRITE AGAIN

Darkness is gathering fast

to bury what remains

of the pale October day,

and I from my wandering

back to scribing down

verses that will be lost to time

like the waning light

will be unremembered by the night.

29.10.2025

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THIS EXACT MOMENT

In the gray morning

chill autumn desolation,

dead, drenched grass

until the black

line of trees rising

to the featureless clouds.

How often has

one lived this

exact moment?

28.-.29.10.2025

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A LATE OCTOBER DAY

It could be any

time of the day

between

the mid-morning

and the late afternoon,

the fall hours

the same gray moment,

sole change

in the landscape

strong gusts of wind

bending the trees

or 

rain that comes or fades;

you divide

the day before

the rain and after

until a second rain shower

comes or not,

until

dim day become darker,

growing

into the short dusk

and the quickly

falling night.

28.-29.10.2025

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WHAT LUST DOES

It has come to this:

Casually noticing

that the autumn wind

bends the trees,

he gets a vision

of himself bending

her over his desk,

his hands

on her bare buttocks

as he guides

himself inside her.

28.-29.10.2025

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TO FIND THE BRANCHES EMPTY, EXCEPT

Go south seventy kilometers

and the deciduous trees

have more of their withered

                                leaves, 

two weeks worth,

perhaps, 

               of leaves,

from gold 

to green,

and come back

home

to find the branches

empty, 

except

the still young oak

on the yard,

                     the one

you've watched

grow 

         for fourty years,

holds fast its own

for them to fall

on late winter's snows.

28.-29.10.2025

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ONLY DEAD GRASS

Morning turns into noon and finally

the mist embracing the undulating

hillsides of the little valley lifts,

dissolves, 

                 yet in the revealed

distance the mind thinks the eyes

see rain on the hill entwined

by trees and houses, 

                                   the one

you haven't walked for thirty-five

years or more, a kilometer away.

In the vast distance of years

and land only dead grass.

29.10.2025

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ON BOTH SIDES OF DREAM AND REALITY

Another morning awakening

from some dream slipping

fast beyond remembering,

yet he knows his muse

was part of it

and should be here

waiting to finish,

in whatever way would please

her, what her presence

had started in the dream,

easing what she had left hard

on both sides of the dividing

line of dream and reality,

line that she has again merged.

29.10.2025

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MY DESIRE MIGHT BE PATIENT

1

My love may be Platonic,

my desire might be patient,

but my lust is not -

what the mind solely enjoyes

the mind and flesh

coming together in lust

want to enjoy,

if ever briefly,

in corporeal unity.

2

The too patient mind

inside its ivory abode

can ever after remember

the entanglement

of limbs, the long-awaited

coming, 

feasting solitary

on the remembered

sensations, 

after together with the flesh

they have had their moment

of fulfilled lust.

29.10.2025

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BEFORE THE LIGHT DIES

Afternoon sunshine

and I inside,

translating & writing,

&

sharing

the shame of the world:

genocide.

21.10.2025

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IN GAZA

All those

cherished

international laws

values European

and American

the Western

international order

basic decency

humanity

buried there

under the rubble

just more

bones

waiting

to be extracted

for burial

21.10.2025

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GAZING

He can't but

place

his hands

to

slowly wander

there,

on those

thighs,

between

those thighs

21.10.2025

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IN THE EARLY MORNING

The dawn

in crimson clouds

on fire

            

and when

one got out

it was embers

cooling

in the horizon

you couldn't

warm neither

hands nor

mind

21.10.2025

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THAT IMAGE

i

How the mind

leapt

at the sight

of those

thighs

ii

How a

a drenched

wood

kindled

& burned

21.10.2025

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FINALLY

Reading others poems

restores your own

finally

after dry days

a sapling grows.

21.10.2025

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TO ZIONISTS

Remember: Lives of 40 imaginary babies

"beheaded" and "baked in ovens" matter

more than the lives of over 20 000 real children

murdered by Israel's occupation forces.

Imaginary suffering "justifies" real suffering.

To Zionists.

19.11.2023-18.10.2025

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READER'S DIGEST DOES IT AGAIN

According to Reader's Digest

Bethlehem is in "Israel".

Bethlehem is on Palestine's

occupied West Bank.

And Reader's Digest supported

South Africa's Apartheid regime

just like Reader's Digest supports

Apartheid Israel's regime.

15.10.2025

THEIR PATH TO HEAVEN IS PAVED WITH THE BODIES OF MURDERED PALESTINIANS

"God is with Israel!"

scream the Christians

who support Apartheid,

Ethnic Cleansing, Genocide,

raping and starving and torturing

people to death.

"God is with Israel!"

they scream, the Christians

who believe their path to Heaven

is paved with the bodies

of murdered Palestinians,

children, elderly, men and women.

Is a good, benevolent God

really on the side of racists,

genocidaires, ethnic cleansers

who rape, shoot, starve and torture

innocent people to death

to steal their land?

What do you think?

15.10.2025

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