THERE IS TOO MUCH TO LEAVE
© Farouk
Asvat
There is too much to leave
The blood of growing up
The call of the ancestors
The longing for your hardened tones
The feel of cinnamon loam
But the sea keeps whispering
And the banjo keeps strumming
And the heart keeps forming
words
Trapped by the hardened lips
And the heart,
Cloaked in onionpeels of steel
Caught in the inertia of ideologies
Between swollen bellies smiling for the camera
And children disappearing into the rescue of graves,
Keeps waiting for the delicate kiss
To unveil the sorrow of doves imprisoned there.
© farouk asvat
composed: 1985 [Johannesburg, South Africa
under apartheid]
[] Acknowledgements:
There Is Too
Much To Leave / There Is Nothing More To Say was previously published in:
A Celebration Of Flames, (donker, p37, 1987);
Upstream 2(2) (Edgemead, p13, Autumn 1984);
Exiles Within (Writers' Forum, Cape Town, p1 & p6, 1985);
A Celebration of Flames (Heller Fund, UC Berkeley, California, USA,
p31, 1988);
Englisch Amerikanische Studien 10(2) (München, Germany, p262,
1988);
Er
Is Teveel Om Achter Te Laten: Dutch translation by Irene Scheltes (1989);
Processed World 29 (Processed World, San Francisco, USA, p33,
December 1992);
A Celebration Of Flames
(piquant publications, p49, 2007);
www.faroukasvat-poems.blogspot.com
(13.11.2012);
A Celebration Of Flames (kindle, 2014);
A Celebration Of Flames (paperback, p49, 2014).
[]
() as There Is Nothing To Believe In:
A Celebration of Flames
(Heller Fund, UC Berkeley,
California, USA, p30, 1988);
Horses: Athlone (eKapa & Buchu
Books, Cape Town, p15, 1988);
() as There Is Nothing More To Say:
Upstream 2(2) (Edgemead, p13,
Autumn 1984);
() as part
of There Is Too Much To Leave:
Exiles Within [part of]
(Writers' Forum, Cape Town,
p6, 1985);
Processed World 29 (Processed World,
San Francisco, USA, p33, December 1992);
# composed: 1985 [Johannesburg, South Africa under apartheid].
(new edited version: 17.04.2012)
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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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[] ER IS TEVEEL OM ACHTER TE LATEN
Dutch
translation by © Irene Scheltes
Er is teveel om achter
te laten
Het bloed van
volwassen worden
De roep van de
voorouders
Het verlangen naar je
geharde toon
Het voelen van
geelbruin leem
Maar de zee fluistert
Banjo's blijven dansen
En het hart blijft
woorden vormen
Gevangen door geharde
lippen
Het hart,
Gehuld in stalen uienschillen
Gevangen in trage ideologieën
Tussen dikke buiken lachend voor de camera
En kinderen verdwijnend in verlossende graven,
Blijft wachten op de subtiele kus
Om de droefheid bloot te leggen van daar
gekooidc duiven.
Dutch
translation by kind permission of © Irene Scheltes
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