Barbarity Poems

FAR FROM THE MERIDIAN

...I wish death upon pedophiles and rapists.
Some privileged heirs of the Republic of Enlightenment slave-masters are pedophiles, sometimes rapists.
I dream of being the executioner of fanatic terrori...

I WILL NEVER BE A POET

...I stopped dreaming after defying the reaper.
My existence has no shine,
I cling to life like a suicidal soul
flirting with its own boundaries.

Reckless, never fanatic,
I spit out their dogmas ...

FREE SUB-SAHARAN

...The colored pains are carved onto the back of my ancestors’ history.
My oppressors see my Africanness as a curse,
the rotten fruit of savagery, slavery, and the barbarity of colonization.
The blac...

THE EMBERS OF MY MEMORY

...My heart of stone quenches its thirst in the dirty hands of misery.
The tears of my family tree run down the scarred faces of their history.
The pain of my color screams in silence the secrets thes...

LUGUBRIOUS READING

...I have read the Code Noir.
I have read the papal bull of Nicholas V.
I have read the charter of imperialism.
I have read the Indigenous Code
I have read the Torah, the Bible, and the Quran.
I ha...

IN THE DARKNESS OF IMPERIALISM

...I was born in a banana republic,
Between the carnivorous chains of Françafrique,
In an open-air dumpster,
Where tyranny, barbarity, and savagery speak with arrogance.
I am perfumed with all the n...

WE ARE STILL HERE

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       Barbarity and treachery
        are not things of God...
     true resistance of the innocent,
        yes, it is a divine thing...!...

Hermann Hesse translation of 'Secretly We Thirst'

...Hermann Hesse English Translations

Secretly We Thirst…
by Hermann Hesse
from The Glass Bead Game
translation by Michael R. Burch

Charismatic, spiritual, with the gracefulness of arabesques,
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POSITIVE THINKING POETRIX

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               Usury and surplus value,
                barbarity and treachery
          do not adorn with love and poetry....
...

I CHOSE

...I chose to write,  
For all those torn-off branches,  
For all those scarred backs,  
For all those dehumanized bodies,  
For all those centuries of persecution.  

I chose to read,  
To decon...

The Final Solution III

...All hope was vain and nothing could atone
for deeds beyond atrocity defined.
These demagogues turned nation hearts to stone
through apathy and rhetoric maligned.
Though hell’s regime forged mecha...

THE DISCIPLINES OF FACILITY

...The apostles of decadence claim that the divine spark demands lust, power and material goods.
 Why pay attention to these puppets enlightened by the dogmatic obscurantism of the West?
 Our heavenly...

I wanna trade in my stubby spindleshanks

...I wanna trade in my stubby spindleshanks...,

(a poor excuse for legs),
and get me the latest
sophisticated prosthetics advancements,
whereat integration of cultured stem cells
into custom made...

Facing Life's Crises

...Have we embarked a Ship of Fools
By forsaking the Golden Rule?
And, have we formed a neutral state
Sitting astride the Fence of Fate?

Our devalued civility,
Desensitized humanity,
Deprecated ...

THE DARKNESS OF HUMAN PERDITION

...On all these battlefields, shrill howls,
 Corpses riddled with rotting bullets,
 Abandoned tanks on fire,
 Under this black sky of mourning, where death makes its home.
 Where love has vanished f...

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