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Salman Rushdie Goes Public

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  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 ...

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

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...

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 ...

Categories: rushdie, courage, eulogy,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

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...

Categories: rushdie, character, confidence,
Form: Rhyme

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...

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 ...

Categories: rushdie, conflict, farm,
Form: I do not know?

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...

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...

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