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Rushdie Poems - Poems about Rushdie

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Premium Member Hit Lists
...There have been many times in my life when I heard about hit lists (kill lists so to speak). Sometimes these death threats against others even make it onto international news. I’m reminded of the......Read the rest...
Categories: rushdie, murder,
Form: Prose



Salman Rushdie
...Intrepid gadfly; the voice of dissent. Multiple times stricken, multiple times resolved. Though he bleeds, still the pen that chides never bleeds, nor is it obliterated. For three decades and ......Read the rest...
Categories: rushdie, courage, eulogy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Salman Rushdie Stabbed
...Author of “The Satanic Verses” was stabbed this morning in NYC. In New York, doing a reading, that city which now allows criminality. Yes, I know a Fatwa, was put on his life. But he’s fearles......Read the rest...
Categories: rushdie, character, confidence,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Memo To All Journos - Buzzwords
...A poet's work [like journalists] is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, to start arguments, to shape the world and stop it from going to sleep. - Salm......Read the rest...
Categories: rushdie, humorous, poets,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Poets, Keeping the World Awake
..."My passion is to see poets' souls, brilliantly on fire!"... .P. Romios. " Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world!" Percy Bysshe Shelley, romantic poet Without us being phony p......Read the rest...
Categories: rushdie, courage, encouraging, inspiration, poets,
Form: Free verse



Howling Mad
...The beard line came within a 1/4" from a field of chest hair and called a truce on this wild mop headed man-child who spoke with such decibel excitement his voice waned from totally cracking up to a ......Read the rest...
Categories: rushdie, conflict, farm,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Jean Lapresle: the Solitary Oak On Mount Kremlin Bicetre
... A French ‘Indianist’ Doctor: A Tribute to a Die-hard Humanist   by T. Wignesan, Chercheur au C.N.R.S. Professor Jean LAPRESLE, the last of the......Read the rest...
Categories: rushdie, celebrity, endurance, french, loss,
Form: Elegy
A Pile of Qurans
...a pile of qu’rans how many bozos at Bagram does it take to burn a pile of qu’rans? is it more or less than the amount of soldiers that it took to kill off nearly 9,000 Afghan civilians & 20 journali......Read the rest...
Categories: rushdie, life, death, people, death,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs