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 ~
Rushdie asks, Is that what progressives pin their fond hopes on
Categories:
salman rushdie, celebrity, integrity, irony, visionary,
Form: Couplet
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 four,
death he evaded,
still, multiple times stricken,
evasive he remains.
Categories:
salman rushdie, courage, eulogy,
Form: Free verse
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 fearless, not out to please and can
deal with strife.
I do hope he successfully recovers.
I like writers who do not put truth under pretty,
people pleasing covers!
A few of his quotes are listed below..
They are universal for all free counties.
1. What is freedom of expression!
Without the right to offend, it ceases to
exist.
2. Language is courage: The ability to
conceive a thought, to speak it, and
by doing so, to make it true.
3. A mature society, understands that at
the heart of democracy, is argument!
8/12/2022
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UPDATE….RUSHDIE WAS STABBED IN THE NECK
AND FACE SEVERAL TIMES……
HE MAY LOSE AN EYE.
5pm PST 8/12/2022.
UPDATE…RUSHDIE WAS PUT ON A VENTILATOR
THIS EVENING.
‘8PM PST 8/12/2022
Categories:
salman rushdie, character, confidence,
Form: Rhyme
"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 politicians mucking about with pants on fire.
We cannot change things without the courage ourselves to see evil, write about it, and see it ends.
The silence is deafening as the media cheers on Communism wearing the deranged mask of Socialism.
One day, we may lose this right to be truthful as poets forever.
Stop hiding behind butterflies and flowers, as none will keep you free.
Patriots will cheer you on, do not worry about those who avoid you."
"A poet’s work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep."
— Salman Rushdie, award-winning writer
2/26/2021
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Categories:
salman rushdie, courage, encouraging, inspiration, poets,
Form: Free verse