THE POETRY OF LOVE
© Farouk Asvat
I
live in the slums of my mind
Surrounded
by the dancing garden
Of
a million houries
And
the pathetic pleading eyes
Of
children sitting with cupped hands
Amidst
a celebration of red carnations
And
the motion of a thousand ugly vehicles
Patrolling
the ashen streets
With
the sound of gunfire
In
their eyes
Come
little children
Burning
your fathers
In
jubilation of nothing
Go
bury yourselves in shame
Cremate
your adolescent bravado
In
a prison of a thousand white curtains
Fluttering
in the breeze
Come
guerilla fighter
That
walks with the night
Stalks
with the lion
Making
your presence felt
In
air-conditioned apartments
And
discarded rubbish bins
Eating
dried mopani worms
And
farmhand offerings
Of
porridge and wild spinach;
Come
let us not part ways
For
I hear the vision of bazookas
In
my heart
In
these lines that flow like sinews
For
yours is the poetry of love
Ours
the way of death
Ours
is the road
That
leads to the unburdening of the soul
To
the singing of new anthems
© farouk asvat
composed: July 1985 [Johannesburg, South
Africa under apartheid]
[] Acknowledgements:
The Poetry
Of Love was previously
published in:
A Celebration Of Flames, (donker, p62, 1987);
Writers' Forum (Writers' Forum, p3, June 1985);
A Celebration of Flames (Heller Fund, UC Berkeley, California, p52,
1988);
Liefdes - Poëzie: Dutch translation by Irene Scheltes
(1989);
Notre
Librairie 122: (Clef, Paris, France, # 122, p143, April-June 1995),
+ French translation by Pauline
Baggio: La Poesie de l'amour;
A Celebration Of Flames
(piquant publications, p80, 2007);
www.faroukasvat-poems.blogspot.com
(17.07.2012);
A Celebration Of Flames (kindle, 2014);
A Celebration Of Flames (amazon paperback, p78, 2014).
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© farouk asvat. All rights reserved.
Farouk
Asvat asserts his moral right to be
identified as the author of this work.
No part of this publication may
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Reproduction
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is
liable to a payment of 10, 000 ren men bi or US$ 1,500.
farouk asvat can be contacted at: farouk.asvat@gmail.com
[] please check out my blogs @:
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piquante: www.faroukasvat-piquant.blogspot.com
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LIEFDES - POËZIE
Dutch translation by © Irene Scheltes
Ik leef in de sloppen
van mijn geest
Omgeven door de dansende tuin
Van miljoenen hoeri's
En de aandoenlijk smekende ogen
Van kinderen met handen hol als een kom
Temidden van een zee van anjers
En lelijke wagens die
bij d uizenden voortgaan
Op patrouille in de
straten van as
Het geluid van
geweervuur
In hun ogen
Kom kindertjes
Jullie die je vaders
verbranden
Jubelend om niets
Ga jezelf in schaamte
begraven
Cremeer je jeugdige
overmoed
In een gevangenis met duizend witte gordijnen
Fladderend in de wind
Kom guerillastrijder
Jij die loopt met de
nacht
Sluipt met de leeuw
Die laat voelen dat
je er bent
In luchtgekoelde
appartementen
En
wegwerp-vuilnisbakken
Jij die droge
mopaniwormen eet
En wat een boerenhand
je biedt
Aan morogo en pap;
Kom laat ons niet
uiteengaan
Want ik hoor het
visioen van bazoeka's
In mijn hart
In deze regels als
zenuwprikkels
Want aan jou is de liefdes-poëzie
Aan ons de route naar de dood
Aan ons is de weg
Die leidt naar verlichting van de ziel
Het zingen van nieuwe
liederen.
Dutch translation by kind permission of
© Irene Scheltes
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is now available on amazon: paperback @ $15 &
kindle @ only $5
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