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Speak by Faiz Ahmad Faiz, a poem for our time

...Speak!
by Faiz Ahmad Faiz
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Speak, while your lips are still free.
Speak, while your tongue remains yours.
Speak, while you're still standing...

Pieces of a dream

...
Now and then things remind me.

Of a time, none could find me.

And the place where your eyes did.

In the raw candor of summer.

Where wine and secrets poured.

Out of your mouth.

Int...

From Ultra Right to Ultra Wrong

...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 speciou...

Hate Speech Conclusion

...


The News and Politicians do all of the above.

Causing fear by reporting what the Government 
thinks about Parents attending 
school board meetings.
That they could be * inciting violence....

Summer Moon

...Subtle and mild.

Summer love came.

Answering our cry.

In swift reply.

Marooned.

In mid-summer's bloom.

Secrets rendered.

Illuminated under moon.

Radiant nights.

Pandered to...

Only Three Days In Cell

...Only three days in The Country’s Cell
And one won’t any longer feel well: 
The Damned Bizarre with a Killing Smell, 
A place Tortoise loses help from shell,
To be ringing in one’s ears Death’s Be...

Innocence

...Long ago
a year or so
I received accolades a plenty
I won this, and I won that
I was on top of it all
I was almost the whole shebang
I was important
I was all about me
I pandered and pounded
...

Heroes Slip Away

...How soon the heroes daughters and sons
  lost in the morning shadow run
     of a distant and clouded sun;
all the dreams that survive
  are mere nightmares still alive
    of what we once contr...

Poor Pandora

...We ponder Pandora as the person preordained
to unleash a plethora of plagues upon our persons.

But here's what I heard:
Pandora had two sisters,
Persephone and Proserpina.
Pandora perused poet...

Deceptively Bright

...Prepackaged compliment,
  our badge of delight

Symbol and emblem,
—deceptively bright

A pandered acknowledgement,
—slap on the back

Others controlling,
  the acceptance we lack

(Villa...

Beth

...Waves of invisible noise rise and sink
As quick as your heartbeat,
And as slow.
Your beauty grows day by day,
And I like to think that you know exactly who I am,
And your smile for me, is not on...

Timing Is Everything

...To balance on a bike

you've gotta keep moving

but

 

since we can't

always move

 

our lives will improve

if we learn just when

it's time time time

to put a foot down

 ...

I Think Back On the Women

...I think back on the women, 
I've graced with my presence, 
Some thankful, some spiteful, 
For the short or long sentence, 
They did all provide me, 
With an honest intrusion, 
At times complime...

Evil's Horn

...EVIL'S HORN

Is hate the driving force of our endeavors
the fear of heaven’s myth our revelation 
our sole remaining choice be now or never

existing in the state of self-cremation
pandered pa...

Siliconed Soul

...as things speed up 
at an ever faster clip
they're ready to interrupt
my mind's day nondescript
to mark my thoughts - every tiny blip

and keep them cross-indexed
in a clouded database
kept in the cu...

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