DOCTOR CHARLTON CUSSANS PHD

On a social media platform

an account named

"Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD"

is part of a witch-hunt

against accounts seeking

aid to Gaza families,

claiming them to be

'scammers', joining forces

with Abandonment Isles,

andrewtheblueskier, Dark Canada,

Fennec Fox Fanfare, Fuss,

globe moment, Lollerisms, 

Machiavellian Star Restaurant,

sixapac, Talia, Yakety Yakumo,

Yuri Princess, Warren Terra,

What are we doing here

and all the rest

clearly oh so real accounts (not),

so one is slightly surprised

to find out that someone

with an attitude and name

like that exists in real life

and lectures in Coventry University

while mocking and harassing

starving people

trying to survive a genocide

and those who try to aid them.

Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD

from Coventry University

could have just blocked

accounts asking for help

and those trying to aid them,

but that wasn't enough

for Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD

looking fell-wed in his photoghraps

on Facebook and LinkedIn,

no he had to harass, mock

and insult people who just want to live

and those who just wanted to help.

22.04.2026

GRIND THEM INTO GRAINS OF SAND

I have no sympathy for the powerful

and the privileged,

those who see the world

but a stage for themselves

and us the unwilling spectators.

I want them to be bloody sand

running through the hands

of uncaring humanity

and blown away

by harsh gusts of time.

21.04.2026

FAILED CREATION

There is little inspiration,

only longing to write

so these brief lines

forced in the faltering

night as a act

of failed creation

shall live as homunculus

in a jar placed

on the mind's shelf

as it gazes with slowly moving

eyes through its glass

into yet another prison

03.04.2026

JUST AFTER SUNSET ON A MID-APRIL EVENING

The Sun set twenty minutes

ago, and you barely notice

it. Still the same bright

evening light, still the same

long shadows piercing

the golden hues of spring

and the short night

with its

waning stars

still hours away,

adrift in

winding time.

19.04.2026

WHY DO THEY HAVE TO REVEL IN INHUMANITY?

When the Holocaust

is so sacred to them,

why do the Zionists

mock the victims

of the genocide

they are committing?

Isn't killing their victims

enough to those

who demand to themselves

the entire world's sympathy?

Can't they have even

little decency?

19.04.2026

ALEXEI BALEN

If I could go one day

without Zionist supporters of Ukraine

celebrating the genocide of Palestinians

and insulting and mocking the victims

I would be able to feel something else

than anger towards them

and their yellow and blue flag.

They have drained almost

all the sympathy

I had for Ukraine and I have

to think of Belarus and Chechnya

to hope for Russia's defeat,

liberation of those countries,

for these people I could never wish

victory - they are so vile.

They desecrate a just defense

with their genocidal,

hateful Zionism.

Why can't they all go

and die for Ukraine?

19.04.2026

HERACLES' APOTHEOSIS

Deianeira hands over the garment

stained with Nessus' blood

and it will burn

the man

and burn

with the man

on the pyre.

A god will be born

from that fire.

But the dead

centaur has his revenge

and the dead children

Heracles begetted

and slaughtered

theirs too, briefly,

as the flesh feels

the poison

and the flames

of apotheosis.

But in the end

Heracles will be a god

amidst gods

on Olympos

and the shades

of his children

he slew

shall wail in Hades

with the spirit of Nessus.

19.04.2026

A MIRACLE FOR THE AGES

If there is a future

for humanity

beyond these ruins

physical and mental

it's a miracle

for the ages.

18.04.2026

SALVAGED FROM THE WRECK

The future is not made

but salvaged

from the wreckage

of MF Today.

18.04.2026

THE LINEAR PATH

Birds singing the spring

to be, as not only light

and warmth but sound

make the season ascending

to verdant resurrection,

all things returning

that unlike us and our kin

return with nature's turning

wheel while our fate

is linear through the cycles.

18.04.2026

COLD LIGHT

Cold in bright sunshine,

an April spring day

cast in pale blue.

18.04.2026

JUST ANOTHER WAR CRIME

Killing truck drivers

working for UNICEF

driving water tankers

in occupied Palestine's

destroyed Gaza Strip

just another day,

another war crime

for Israel.

18.04.2026

OUR SIN

A spring

and yet

death

not rebirth

for our sin

of electing

not incarcerating

our worst

listening

not entombing in solitary

the fascists raging

on our screens

that should be broken

and made

into pencils

14.04.2026

I CLAIM IT

A universal smile

on your lips

and yet

I claim it

as mine

in these verses

no matter

how many faces

it brightens

in these

it brightens

mine

14.04.2026

TRANSLATING PATRICK KAVANAGH

Odd how much

pain even the lines

of long-dead strangers

poets of unvisited

lands

evoke in us

as we read the lives

of our loved ones

and our own

through them

unwillingly

each verse a hook

to fish from depths

of time loss

and grief

preserved

in the Black Sea

of our existence

11.04.2026

MAGNOLIA BLOWING

White and pink blossoms

after a cold March

on the magnolia

rooted seventy-three years

on its spot in the world,

since 1953, since Eisenhower,

Korean War, the echoing

coup in Iran,

Stalin, tanks against

protesters in Berlin -

so few, the years

circling the maelstrom,

so many, the flowers

returning with the seasons.

11.04.2026

NO LEASH

Not an escape

trajectory

but bending

home

for a return

05.04.2026

LUNAR GRIEF

Grief is a cold

moon too big

to hide

behind

your thumb

not too distant

to touch

with your hand

05.04.2026

EARLY SPRING EVENING'S RAIN REMEMBERED

It started to rain

as afternoon

turned evening,

yesterday; steady

rain that went on

in the background

of the devouring news.

The weather through

the windows looked

chill, so in the dim

indoors I imagined

the raindrops

to be cold, 

yet never

went to feel them

on the palm of my hand,

on my face. What

I imagined was enough

for the passing moment,

and what I imagined

was soon lost

in the thickening dark.

03.04.2026

LOSS WITH PAIN'S SHARP SCISSORS

Loss with pain's

sharp scissors

tries to reduce us,

define

us, drawing

bleeding boundaries

for our

being through

separation,

yet

bright

in memory

with a halo

of grief,

what we lost

endures,

keeping us

intact, whole.

05.04.2026

AND ALL THE DIM HOURS

The first appearance
of the Sun
at sunset,
and all the dim hours
of the day
erased
in the brief moments
as it hovers
at the sky's edge.

23.03.2026

UNDER A PALE BLUE SKY

On a sunny spring afternoon

you stand under a pale blue sky

hang with scattered clouds

from some old Flemish painting,

biting breeze coming as waves

over the lengthening shadows;

warmth and cold alternating,

you float on the tide of hours

like the late summer waters 

carried you to past sunset,

and now drifting towards

evening on words echoing

those of a long dead youth

from whose verses you brought

enough feeling to write

these lines, spirit lacking

in your withered inner

abode in these barren days.

30.-31.03.2026

WISHES FOR THE SPRING

Let the wars end

and occupations crumble,

may the hangman

face his own noose,

let errand felines

way their way home

and migrating birds find

their nest on the door again.

31.03.2026

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