Poems

What is famine but a country that wants to be a desert Yet here are souls still with the energy to make love and to produce children Soldiers and that stupid term freedom fighters Here they are their mouths dry as a bone And going to war against their brothers We do these things and [...]

If it’s down to laying waste our vineyards And armies that they are burning wheatfields What else can we do but leave our homes In this madness all you can think of is getting your family to safety Anything to get away from the smell of good grain burning Those that are doing this they [...]

The little master his village is in ruins And here he is fishing for his own face in a puddle Brave little bastard his ambition does not reflect his situation Nor does his age reflect his purpose Here at the edge of a stagnant puddle A world situation is being resolved He spits into his [...]

You say that you are finished with being a revolutionary But what about the whistle in your pocket who is going to play it God knows the madness in this world has need of such a whistle Look what we are making of life a parade of willing and unwilling skeletons You and your whistle [...]

If a poem arises it is because the silence around it has started to speak A long way from here someone is drawing a door in the sand In a country’s imagination there are those Trapped underground even in their desperation they cannot appear to us In that same country if you look for them [...]

You are no more a cripple than I am a long-eared bat The earth is waiting for you to put down your two feet The earth’s core is waiting to be told That you have walked past the post you said you could not Two steps of the road and you are thriving on it [...]

He picked up his pipe And filled it not with tobacco But with the old reality that An eye for an eye we are God’s equal With no blame attached andNo answers expected Created in God’s image There has to be recovery On one very beautiful night My friend lit his pipeTook his first draw [...]

If you forget this village you have ignored Why in the first place it was built upon the earth Ask yourself of your two eyes what it is that they wish to cover up Of a house and the collapse of its roof before it happened Who was it sheltered there was it the big [...]

Discovering a bird’s nest I ask myself What war is it that we are talking of Do we mean the war yesterday or the war today Perhaps it’s the war of the inevitable The war of tomorrow the war that’s bound to come The war of a small country standing against the print on the [...]