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Rushdie Poems - Poems about Rushdie


Premium Member Salman Rushdie Goes Public
... Salman Rushdie, advocate of Palestinian statehood for forty years Now publicly acknowledges what he greatly fears That 'Palestine' would be run by Hamas, and be a client state of Iran ......

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Categories: rushdie, celebrity, integrity, irony, visionary,
Form: Couplet
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......

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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 ......

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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......

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Categories: rushdie, character, confidence,
Form: Rhyme
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......

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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 ......

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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......

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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......

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Categories: rushdie, life, death, people, death,
Form: Free verse

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