ROOMS:
from
fordsburg to joubert park
© Farouk
Asvat
Kacholie Mansions, Fordsburg (1983-1985)
The blue room invokes quietude and strength.
Azaleas wither among the barbed comments
Thorns eat into my crucified flesh
In the cruelest war of our times
Violent poems invade my sleep
Ghosts dance around the bed
Ululating with delight
Around the flaming pyres
Of my living nightmares
Preparing to die again
For another song of freedom
Words remain censured
Piled away like blankets for the summer
Painfully I unfold
Scab
upon crusty scab
From my
bleeding heart
Winter's
beauty and assault
Is with
me again
A
wounded dove
Rising
from a dusty roof
Ready
to fly again
Century Plaza, Joubert Park (1985-1987)
Picadors and Penguins flutter
With the lives within their lives
Resting upon white melamine shelves
Where my lover smiles sadly at me;
Fikile's brain oozes
Through a fractured skull
Confined to a cell
In the frame of his painting,
A broken brick wall
His only hope of escape;
Peace-in-the-home flourishes
In broken sunbeams
In dancing chiaroscuros
Of coloured shadows;
I listen to rock 'n' roll in stereo
Waiting for the knock on the door,
Always waiting for the knock on the door:
For the
mournful smile of my girlfriend
For the
deadly embrace of the security police
For the
neat package from a comrade
Exploding
in my face
© farouk asvat
composed:
[Johannesburg, South Africa under apartheid]
Kacholie
Mansions, Fordsburg (1983-1985): composed: 16.05.1985
Century Plaza, Joubert Park (1985-1987): composed: 05.10.1985
[] Acknowledgements:
Rooms: from
fordsburg to joubert park was previously published in:
The Wind Still Sings Sad
Songs (piquant publications, p70, 2006);
www.faroukasvat-poems.blogspot.com
(31.12.2013);
The Wind Still Sings Sad
Songs (kindle, 2014);
The Wind Still Sings Sad
Songs (amazon paperback,
p68, 2014).
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[§] Books by Farouk Asvat:
● Sadness In The House Of Love (novel)
● The Gathering Of The Storm (novel)
● I Dream In Long Sentences
(poetry)
● The Wind Still Sings Sad Songs (poetry)
● A Celebration Of Flames
(poetry)
● The Time Of Our Lives
(poetry)
● Bra Frooks … (poetry)*
● The Paanies Are Coming
(short stories)*
● In The
House Of Love (novel)*
● Weapons Of Words
(comparative literature & literary criticism)
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