THE PILGRIM
© Farouk Asvat
Exile
is a pilgrimage away.
And
life
Whoring
with death
Is
a moment away
Towers
Syrup-coated in sunset
Scintillate invitations
To the neon night
As chocolate leaves
Dance in the august wind
In
the mecca of towers
Where the prodigal pilgrim of the land
Has found the destitute temple of his
dreams
The sanctuary of his nightmares
©
farouk asvat
composed: 1985 [Johannesburg, South Africa
under apartheid]
[] Acknowledgements:
The Pilgrim was previously published in:
A Celebration Of Flames (donker,
p25, 1987);
De Pelgrim: Dutch translation by Irene Scheltes (1989);
A Celebration Of Flames (piquant publications, p29, 2007);
www.faroukasvat-poems.blogspot.com
(22.07.2012);
A Celebration Of Flames (kindle, 2014);
A Celebration Of Flames (amazon paperback, p33, 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)
¨ all my books are now available on amazon: in
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[] DE PELGRIM
Dutch translation by © Irene Scheltes
Ballingschap is een
bedevaart ver
En het leven
Hoererend met de dood
Is een ogenblik ver
Torens
Met siroop bedekt bij
zonsondergang
Fonkelende verlokkingen
Voor de neon nacht
En bladeren van chocola
Dansen in d'augustuswind
In het mecca van torens
Waar de verloren pelgrim van het
land
De armzalige tempel van zijn
dromen vond
Heiligdom van zijn nachtmerries
Dutch translation by kind permission
of © Irene Scheltes
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