PREFERENCES: LONDON AMBULANCES ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN PALESTINIAN LIVES

People who didn't care about Palestinian medics

who were send to save and were murdered

with Hind Rajab and her family

by Israel's occupation forces in Gaza Strip

today care about Jewish ambulances in London.

Yesterday they didn't care about three Palestinian
police officers killed in Gaza when Israel's

occupation forces bombed their car,
but today, today they care

about Jewish ambulances in London.

For Jewish ambulances in London matter,
unlike Palestinian people in occupied Palestine.

23.03.2026

PALESTINE AND GERMANY

1

According to Germany,

what happens in Palestine

is never about the Palestinians

but always about

Germany, the Holocaust

and the Jews.

2

To Germany

Palestine is just a stage

where Germany plays

the leading role

in a tale of redemption

of the German nation.

23.03.2026

THE UPRISING ON INDONESIAN-RULED BORNEO

When Suharto's regime fell in Indonesia,

the indigenous Dayak in Borneo

attacked the Madurese

colonialists Suharto had settled there

killing several thousand of people

(numbers contested),

decapitating hundreds of people,

and the 'Western' media and the politicians

who would be so aghast and angry

about non-existent decapitated Israeli colonialists

quarter of a century later,

they were not bothered at all,

and the decapitated heads

of the Madurese colonialists

were shown in the media

mainly as a fascinating story

about modern headhunting.

Why doesn't the world show more

solidarity? asked an American rabbi

after October 7th 2023

and I wonder whether he had

seen decapitated heads of the Madurese

in the news quarter of a century earlier,

and if he had, what had been his reaction?

Had he declared solidarity with the Madurese?

Changed the channel and turned the page?

Or was he blissfully unaware that it ever happened?

Just like he appeared blissfully unaware

of the Palestinian suffering under the occupation and siege.

23.03.2026

THE FOREIGN MINISTERS AND DIPLOMATS

They are eagerly at work,

the foreign ministers and diplomats,

so that the war in the Middle East

would end before the economies

of the Gulf despotates would be hurt in the long term,

before United Arab Emirates

could no longer afford a genocide in Sudan,

before the Herrenvolk in Israel

would turn against Benyamin Netanyahu

and the genocidal Apartheid regime fractured,

before the plutocrats and the racists

in the United States would melt

and turn against Donald Trump,

they are eagerly at work,

the foreign ministers and diplomats,

so that the United States

could leave behind another shattered country

to attack it a third time

after the November elections,

and turn to attack Cuba instead.

23.03.2026

EUROPEAN UNION AND CUBA

European Parliament president

Roberta Metsola surely already has

Viva Cuba Libre!

social media posts ready

for when the Yankee bombs

start to fall on Havana,

and European Union High Representative

Kaja Kallas her own, 

ready to declare

that Yankee bombs will 

open a road into new Cuba

owned by Techno-Fascist Gringos.

23.03.2026

THE IHRA

(IHRA means LARD in Finnish,

spoken by hundreds of thousands

in Sweden, whose Prime Minister 

IHRA's founder Göran Persson was.)

Göran Persson's LARD

doesn't care about stopping

ongoing genocides,

Göran Persson's LARD

exists to support

ongoing genocides.

Göran Persson's LARD

runs freight cars full of people

into destruction camps.

Göran Persson's LARD

stands guard as the bodies

are brought out of the gas chambers

and put into the crematorium ovens,

watches the smoke to rise on the sky

saying its just following orders.

23.03.2026

POGROMS ON THE ISRAELI OCCUPIED WEST BANK OF PALESTINE 1967

Another pogrom

last night in the occupied West Bank

by illegal Israeli colonialists

as Israel's occupation forces

watched

and almost all the people,

all the organizations,

all the museums

that talk about past pogroms

are silent

because this time

it's the right people

doing the pogroms -

the people they identify with

and the victims

are right too:

people who don't matter

after eight decades of dehumanization

during a genocide

under Apartheid.

23.03.2026

THE COLOURS OF THE LANDSCAPE DECIDE OUR INNER TEMPERATURE

Looking outside

in the dim afternoon light

I say to myself

"It's a cold day"

and shiver, but

it's just the overcast sky

that makes me feel so.

Still warm for March,

four degrees Celsius,

it's just that bright light

that shone yesterday

is gone and that makes

the landscape

feel so cold.

23.03.2026

MISSILES AND ROCKETS OVER PALESTINE 1948

If the Israelis

would want this to stop

they could just

surrender.

Then it would

be over

and there

would be peace.

That's what they

and their supporters

have been telling

their victims

as long as I

can remember,

as long as I

have been alive.

23.03.2026

AFTER THE ROSE COLOURED TWILIGHT YESTERDAY

Falling asleep, I

expected I would

awaken into bright

morning light,

sunlight

making the drawn

green curtains

before my windows

the colour

of new 

tree leaves

in late May,

and I awakened

just after midday

into an autumn landscape,

just before winter.

It's all in the mind,

the seasons,

as long as you aren't

slipping on ice.

23.03.2026

AFTER THE COUPLING

Male poets concentrate

on the act, the beating

of the wings,

                      female poets

go past it, 

to what comes

after the swan is again

an unseen god far

removed and the daily

life continues mundane

past divine intervention

in the changing

of hatchlings' diapers,

streaming slowly

towards the cascades

when Great Events

again interrupt,

and then on one shore

of the wine-dark sea

the Greek virgin's pyre

with a smell

of burning flesh,

and on the other

the burning city

and a mound

for a Trojan virgin

to die on

for a shade to feast

on her blood,

and all the bloody

business of pointless war

between,

and when the surviving

ships limp battered

home, the revenge

that comes late

between gray-haired spouses

and must be avenged,

and then, after

the blood has coagulated

on the blades, 

the Furies' hunt

over, daily

life will continue mundane,

as it always will,

towards new matings,

new hatchings of divinity's

babies, new

                    pointless

bloody disasters.

22.03.2026

TWENTY MINUTES PAST ELEVEN O'CLOCK A. M.

Caught in the web

of information

and illusion

I sill linger

in the cool rooms

where the late morning

sunlight coldly

illuminates a patch

here and there

on a wall. I could

sit before screens

until it's dark

and time

to turn on the lights

but I tell myself

I will go

and make a long

walk under blue

sky free of drones

and missiles

after I have had

a bit more coffee,

translated one

more poem,

witnessed more

of the destruction

our leaders spend

years telling

would only hurt

people who

don't matter.

22.03.2026

THEY WILL NEVER FEEL THE TOUCH

Someone ripped open

in transit the package

you send as a gift

and has been walking

around wearing socks

that would have

felt on my feet

like the touch

of your hands.

20.03.2026

TWILIGHT

A clear evening

not a cloud

on the sky

the horizons

in red and violet

sun gone down

and not a star

or a planet

yet in the deepening blue

just the blue hollow

and the embers

of the day that was

20.03.2026

JUST...

That Wonder Woman 

photograph you sent,

remember it? 

That's what I want, 

dear muse,

just in flesh.

08.-20.03.2026

20

They have killed at least 20 people

in Lebanon today

and you posted

20 poems today

and walked around 20 minutes

and spend around 20 minutes

trying to find a good photo

of Waterloo bridge

from 2000 and 2001

that could be used

to illustrate a poem

without a permission needed

and you must have done

other things

for 20 minutes or so

today, one minute

per person murdered

in Lebanon by Israel.

20.03.2026

COLOURS

The world rips from us
our original colours
given at birth,

gained in the years
of growing,

stains us with its soot
if we are lucky,

or washes us with rough
hands with the blood
of others or our own.

17.02.2026

ACROSS WINTER DAYS

Words come slowly

back from absence,

threading themselves

into something

like poetry,

like memory

of loss,

between the words

the empty places

full of silence

and words

slippery rocks

across the stream

running cold

across winter days.

12.02.2026

CONJOINED

You dream you feel
her hips under your hands,
and that you are
where you long
to be, inside
her, in a moment
of rhythmic motion
that stretches beyond
mere male endurance,
conjoined flesh,
carving your unity
into existence.

18.02.2026

YOUR FRUIT

Could never 

have enough

of your fruit -

I, more wise
and older than Adam,
would eat

leaving it intact,
impaling it
leaving it whole.

18.02.-20.03.2026

MORE THAN THAT

Needs more

than kisses,

more than

short and sweet

ones

or long

with wandering tongues,

more than

that,

needing

the whole

haphazard, feverish

engtangling

in lust.

20.03.2026

TRANSLATING SYNGE

Translating Synge

he falls into thinking

of more than long kisses

with her,

long kisses

just a beginning,

hands are wandering

across her skin.

20.03.2026

NOT YET

I resist falling

into shouting

the news online,

for a moment,

the whole day

would go counting

the attacks

and the deaths,

the injustices

of this fallen,

broken globe,

so I drink

rather bad tasting

coffee, turn

to one simple Synge

after the gyres

and perrning

of an average Yeats

and tell myself

after this

I will walk

in the radiant sunshine.

20.03.2026

OUTSIDE A TURMOIL IN WHITE SNOW

Still thinking

about that blue dress

how it

would feel

when I would

press you against me

taking a good grip

of your buttocks

with my hands

and kissing

you, pushing

my tongue

to meet yours.

26.02.2026

FIFA SIDES WITH ISRAEL

According to the World Court,

the United Nations Security Council

and the United Nations General Assembly

Israel must withdraw from Palestine's

occupied West Bank

and have no claim on it,

but FIFA declares

it knows better

and the West Bank

might still belong to Israel

so nothing Israel does there now

is wrong.

20.03.2026

WHOSE DEATHS SCAR THE CENTURY

An afternoon

in the early spring,

the most recent war

has taken half a day

and more from you

today

and the lives of people

whose deaths are

yet to be quantified

into neat numbers

that give no room

for such things as identity

and all that made them

individuals

whose deaths

scar the century.

They lost everything:

Achievemements that could have been,

mundane joys and sorrows

died with each of them,

and you some hours

you would've have spent

not recounting events

but doing idle things,

scribblings

that live and die

with you.

16.-20.03.2026

HARSH VERSES THAT NEED NO TRANSLATOR

End of the day,

it slips beamless

away and you

didn't even

finish that Yeats

of beast, demon

and the freeman

you forced into a raw,

slow, muddy flow

of unhewed words;

it and everything

left lying where

your mind dropped 

them, casually,

for the bleak coming

day - and how many

will be murdered

while you sleep

the content sleep

of the privileged

word-player, asleep

when entire families

will be torn into dead

flesh, their blood

writing on the dust

harsh verses

that need no translator.

16.03.2026

A DIVINE SWAN BEFORE A MAN

A god in the form of a swan,

a swan touched by the divine -

why not? Women say

they choose facing a bear

before a strange man

and are wise in this,

for men are the true beasts,

the self-pitying wolves who see

smiling shepherds in the mirror

while the lambs cower in fear,

and who has ever heard

of a swan killing anyone?

16.03.2026

AIR-STRIKE BY AIR-STRIKE

Waking up, making coffee,
sitting down to witness
the world end air-strike
by air-strike.

18.03.2026

FIGURES OF HISTORY

Beastly men and saintly women,

and even the men with haloes

around their consciences

have their animal moments

when they grab the fruit from the tree

and blame the woman

they claim to be but part of themselves.

No wonder women choose the bear

or the alien as in Tiptree,

no wonder in Russ' utopia

a man is a lobotomised home accessory

for the most basic needs.

It would be the best use of him.

20.03.2026

TRANSLATING YEATS I

At dawn I promised

myself rising up

a morning walk

after a pot of coffee drank 

to the last bittter slug,

after finishing

translating a lesser Yeats,

and through the curtains

now mid-morning

sunshine penetrating

dissolves the gloom

and here I sit

and fight with a pernning bird

on a little Dublin lake

and think I need another

pot of coffee,

and will do a midday walk

and think of the myriad sins

that made the world as it is.

20.03.2026

THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

During Obama's presidency the Republicans

in the United States Congress declared

that Israel's Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu

"is the true president of the United States",

intending this as a proud praise,

and now ordering 

a United States ground invasion of Iran,

when even of Republicans

only fourteen percent support it,

he shows this to be true,

Benyamin Netanyahu, president

of the United States of America.

20.03.2026

TRANSLATING YEATS II

I spend hours finishing

translating Yeats' Demon and Beast,

four glorious hours from dawn

until the late morning grew in brilliance

towards the zenith of the spring day

and Yeats' notables hanging

on his mind's walls

and his greenheaded bird

on a Dublin pond

and starving monks

on the shores of a dying lake

went from page 

through my mind

on to a flickering screen

and the golden hours

dissolved into words.

20.03.2026

TRANSLATING YEATS I

The pale rose of morning

bloomed and grew

into radiant sunshine

of an early spring

day, and I sat inside,

drank mug after mug

of coffee, translating

the words of a dead man

for an audience of one

and felt content

when all had been done.

20.03.2026

THE EAGLE HAS LANDED

Imagination turns the lunar

desolation fecund, brings back

from the mantle the erupting

magma that makes the seas

liquid fire anew, casts

a volcanic atmosphere

to drive back the void,

melts the ice in the cold traps

held in eternal darkness.

Vater vapour condensing

into raindrops falling on regolith

bringing back sound

after a silence of billions of years

to a landscape alive.

12.03.2026

THE CENTRE DOESN'T HOLD

The Centre doesn't hold,

neither does it want. It flies

a white flag, opens wide

its rusting gates, rushes out

to greet its gibbering conquerors,

declares them its rightful

suzerain under the burning

Cross and the Swastika.

History has ended,

the liberal declares,

and cheers, relieved.

12.03.2026

LUNAR DUST

Trying to find an uplifting

poem about the Moon landings

to translate is harder

than you would think;

Auden grumbling won't

do, Dickey's Moon poems

only on audio, not

in his collection of poems 1968-79

(which tells something),

Sweason writes about probes

(Surveyor?), and so it goes,

when you wander

lunar seas through

the dark hours of the night

seeking a LEM on the Moon,

poetic take on

"The Eagle has landed"

and you end up having

have lunar dust

running through your gloves.

12.03.2026

NOTHING

Entire day wasted.

all the bright sunlight,

but the powerful and corrupted

are wasting entire nations,

so what is my Sunday

compared to that?

All the poems unwritten,

translations not done,

long-delayed messages unsent,

the images of the dead 

and dying unposted?

A great sin.

08.03.2026

WHAT INNOCENCE DO WE HAVE?

If morning be bright

and the day one glorious

glow of light

on the fading snows,

they will still be dying

in the broken lands

as we gaze into the azure

hollow and think

of spring, dreaming

of May ripening

into June and summer,

and they will still be dying,

in our glimmering hours,

the innocent ones,

the smiling children

in the photographs

that will bw published

beside the images

of their shrouded bodies.

08.03.2026

FOR HER

He wishes her hand

would be holding

what she has

brought up,

hardening,

for her,

standing for that

that hand

to which it belongs,

waiting it to play

with and guide it

wherever she wants

it to go.

08.03.2026

INTO ONE MONTH OF PEACE

Hundreds will be

killed today,

just like hundreds

were killed yesterday,

and the day before,

and the days -

not like this in these

last three years,

how many days

not like this

from Palestine to Sudan,

Lebanon and Iran?

Can you combine

the days of few deaths

even into one

month of peace?

One month of peace,

resting, quiet isle,

in the blood-dark

sea of these years.

08.03.2026

UNBROKEN

Midnight,

should go and see

if stars unconquered

stand against the clouds

on sky unbroken

by explosions.

The privilege

of Global North,

nightsky on which flames

don't rise high

from burning cities,

burning human beings.

07.03.2026

GONE TO DEPTH OF NIGHT

Gone to the depth of night

the clear, bright day,

midnight here

with its darkling wings,

and the blood-red morning

how many

innocent deaths away?

07.03.2026

ANOTHER GAME

Always terrible

in tennis, not really

my game,

but I know

another game

I play better,

my muse...

And in that

you can still play

with balls...

07.03.2026

THE DIFFERENT VALUE OF HUMAN LIVES ACCORDING TO THE ISRAELI REGIME

At least 8500 and up to 11 500 Palestinians are missing

in Israeli occupied Palestine's Gaza Strip as a result

of the genocide Israel began after October 7th 2023.

Last night Israel killed at least 44 people, 41 of them civilians,

in Lebanon seeking remains of a single Israeli occupation forces

pilot shot down and missing since 1986.

07.03.2026

THE IMMENSE ARROGANCE OF ISRAEL

Israel carried out 10 000 attacks

during the ceasefire in Lebanon,

killing nearly 400 people,

the last one a 16-year-old Syrian boy,

and now Israel, having killed

339 more people, demands

that "Lebanon returns to the ceasefire"

that Israel has never followed.

07.03.2026

WINTER, BALANCING

Winter, balancing

on the edge of spring,

but not quite

there yet,

the spring

waiting,

waiting for the snow

to sing flowing

in the brooks,

waiting that song

for the first green

blade of grass.

17.02.-07.03.2026