Long Mullahs Poems

Here, I am...
Retired,
Happy,
Sitting on the relaxing throne of my age,
Reminiscing what I went through in life.
A mere spectator I have now become,
Observing in silence the works of men,
Having no worries
Of carrier advancement,
Of acceptance,
Of recognition...

My only...

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 Translation of Eric Mottram’s HOMAGE TO PAUL ELUARD by T. Wignesan

(Note: Here, I retain EM’s translations into English from Paul Eluard’s poems and his source language quotations from “this vital spirits…” onwards, for, according...

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Life was harsh for me
very harsh from the beginning, in the little village in Greece.
We hardly had anything to eat because everything was
destroyed by WW2 and by the five years of civil war 
that followed.
...

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Story of Afghanistan

The barren land of my birthplace
Green at times but screening a rocky face
Known for thousands of years for its warrior race
Let me tell you the truth,
No one really wanted this “space”.

Up until two...

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I went looking for God
in grandest cathedral,
in splendour of gold,
and crosses and statues
and rooves overwhelming
and priests ever-damning
and nuns ever-loving,
so wishing the children would learn
and be good.....

I went looking for God
in a golden dome,
where the mullahs...

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The thrust of salvation's revelation;
Straight from the buckle of the Bible Belt -
Crusading on a plan of what they felt:
"The World for Christ in One Generation."

Their causes - all so specious and remote:
Ban dance and...

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The USA is not perfect
  never has been
    never will be 

Unlike Russia, which has
  ‘no alcohol problem’ 
     ‘no civil disobedience’
    ...

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armed with a plunger
he stares down into the
toilet bowl, as the waste
he’s just expelled
captivates him &
a whole swirl of
ideas comes flooding
like a parade of pummeling
tropical storms tearing at
the shore---
that all this was inside him &
now...

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The Ruba’iyat of Créteil Lake- Part Six

Awake! Dour Dreamer! And draw the curtain of benumbing clouds
Fairies hover by ears to whisper mantras dispelling doubts
Already unheeding magpies cluck rudely tongue-in-beak
And trans-continental flights from Orly pierce through...

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700 Jews dead on the latest Holy Day
     50 years to the day since the Yom Kippur Fray

   Hamas celebrations to be short-lived
     as Israel...

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The sun has set on our harried noon,the owl
play elegy on the lintel of gathering  a dusk,
serenating sounds scour the soul,with searing rhythm of pain,
a ricocchet of cracking hearts,heard above the beatitudes muttered in...

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Within the pages of a book
I find sanctuary, a quiet nook,
Where I often retreat and find
The kindest heart, the vilest mind.

Whenever I just feel like getting away
From the rigors of life on any day,
I step...

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Afghanistan! would anybody give a damn
perhaps had a chance, under Uncle Sam 
They gave them weapons, to fight Talibans
enslavers of women, for pleasures of man

Kabul was thriving, the west brought calm
young ladies attend school, sitting...

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An Alternative View of Iran 
Once I was in Iran the Shah ruled and his informers were everywhere. 
Then came the revolution, much blood, some of it innocent, into 
the streets. USA had kept the...

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Politics is a dirty game,
So indeed is religion –
One screws with your mind,
The other with your soul;
One promises heaven on earth,
The other, heaven after death.

Trust not these savvy advocates –
Politicians, priests, mullahs, imams,
These breeders of
the...

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  Iran seized 66 American hostages in 1979
    held 52 for more than a year
  The pressure on Jimmy Carter was too much to bear

  So, the President attempted...

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Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent – 11

How might one batter to death rogue Nation State
Much less Institutions Parties Power Groups
Motherland religion Peoples’ opiate

Kings tyrants prophets may under-estimate
The will of the People to upset their...

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Chairman Xi, like Chairman Mao
    Vladimir Putin, shades of Josef Stalin
  Kim Jong-un, plus Recep Tayyip Erdogan
    Iranian Mullahs producing drones and bombs
 
  Our world is...

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dylan thomas is dead
he’s buried out in the back yard
with ted bundy teeth marks &
a smell of rot 
all his own
with the optimism of ages past
irrelevant now as it was then
but romantic hearts, candlelit &...

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Two throws of tens and let the dice roll,
that some may live, and some may die,
and at death, are comforted by soul’s mantle light.

For deep beneath a vast ocean of lies,
that have always foretold a...

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Mike Pence for President
    always made sense
      to me

  A man of rare conviction
    in this land no longer brave
   ...

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My sisters and I are slaves,
Slaves to a harmful culture
That forces us to marry before we are grown,
At age 14
At age 9
At age 6
At age 5
Our mothers cannot vote
Nor can they save us
From the fearful...

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While we sit on our rumps and curse about Trump,
Assad murders thousands with chemical weapons dumps. 

While we fuss, fume, and fret about gender change,
Iran's mullahs ramp up plutonium to nuclear range.

While we rally for...

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