farouk asvat : poems: July 2015

28 July 2015

MOUNT PINATUBO

MOUNT PINATUBO
© Farouk Asvat

The freshly sliced

pink salmon
sunsets
of Mount Pinatubo
explode
over the smoke-filled winter
of the African highveld

composed: 27.07.1992 [highveld, south africa under apartheid].

[] Acknowledgements:

Mount Pinatubo was previously published in:

requiem (Wordpress, usa, April 2012);

     www.faroukasvat-poems.blogspot.com (28.07.2015);
     I Dream In Long Sentences (kindle, 2015);
     I Dream In Long Sentences (amazon paperback, p18, 2015).

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NEW: the anthology I Dream In Long Sentences by Farouk Asvat
is now available on amazon: paperback @ $10 & kindle @ only $5
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Sadness In The House Of Love: the first NOVEL by Farouk Asvat
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the anthology The Wind Still Sings Sad Songs by Farouk Asvat
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the anthology A Celebration Of Flames by Farouk Asvat
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the anthology The Time Of Our Lives by Farouk Asvat
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the anthology Bra Frooks … by Farouk Asvat is now available
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Farouk Asvat asserts his moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

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Reproduction of this work without permission, except for scholarly & nonprofit purposes,

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farouk asvat can be contacted at: farouk.asvat@gmail.com

[] please check out my blogs @:

farouk asvat - poems: www.faroukasvat-poems.blogspot.com

weapons of words: www.faroukasvat-viewpoint.blogspot.com

piquante ! : www.faroukasvat-piquant.blogspot.com

piqued ! : www.faroukasvat-piqued.blogspot.com

books by farouk asvat: www.faroukasvat-books.blogspot.com

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21 July 2015

THE LOVE THAT HAD FOUND THEM

THE LOVE THAT HAD FOUND THEM

Shower a confetti of pink carnations

Play the mournful shehnai

Light the joyful deepak

In the dancing hands of Shiva

Sprinkle them with coloured rice

Sprinkle them with holy water

Your beloved has come:

In a sari of rose petals and gold embroidery

With a dot of blood on her forehead.

Put sweet betel leaves in their mouths

Let the singer dance with a thousand rainbows

As they walk around the spluttering flames

As they tie the knot of eternity washed in flames

Circumambulating the eternal flames of love

Seven times

Sprinkled with Ganges water

Panditjee chanting through the choking smoke

At last,

They sleep beneath a curtain of carnations

Whispering seven times to the cool night

Celebrating the love that had found them

- Surrounded by the turmoil of the townships

composed: 1986 [Johannesburg, South Africa under apartheid].

[] Acknowledgements:

The Love That Had Found Them was previously published in:

Goodreads (usa, 17.09.2012, October 2012);

https://faroukasvat-poems.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-love-that-had-found-them-farouk.html (21.07.2015);

I Dream In Long Sentences (kindle, 2015);

I Dream In Long Sentences (amazon paperback, p12, 2015).

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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)

● This Masquerade (short stories)

● 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 paperback & kindle

> @ https://www.amazon.com/author/faroukasvat

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[] please check out my blogs @:

poems: https://faroukasvat-poems.blogspot.com

weapons of words: https://faroukasvat-viewpoint.blogspot.com

piquante: https://faroukasvat-piquant.blogspot.com

piqued: https://faroukasvat-piqued.blogspot.com

streetwise: https://faroukasvat-lingo.blogspot.com

quran: https://quran-faroukasvat.blogspot.com

quran lectures: https://faroukasvat-quran.blogspot.com

verse: https://faroukasvat-verse.blogspot.com

notes: https://faroukasvat-notes.blogspot.com

biography: https://faroukasvat-bio.blogspot.com

stories: https://faroukasvat-stories.blogspot.com

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Farouk Asvat asserts his moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

without the prior permission of the author in writing.

Permission to publish or reproduce the writings in any format can be obtained from the author.

Reproduction of this work without permission, except for scholarly & nonprofit purposes,

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

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the NOVEL Sadness In The House Of Love by Farouk Asvat

is now available on amazon: in paperback @ $15 & kindle @ only $5

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14 July 2015

OFTEN I HAVE THOUGHT OF YOU

OFTEN I HAVE THOUGHT OF YOU
for carolyn forché
© Farouk Asvat

There is a kind of death

In the land of my birth,
Offering me another cup of sadness:

That is all there is.

Yet,

Often,
I have thought of you:

Sitting here

In the midst of my sad war

While you gather your forces

    Nurturing your newborn
    Under the bleak sun
    Of the 14th arrondisement
    Drinking tea with Claribel Alegria,
    The ghosts of death squads hovering around us

Separated by continents of oppression

    We give sustenance
    To the memories stacked upon memories
    Of the mothers of the Plaza de Mayo
    Thinking of their dear departed
    The detained
    The dead
    And the disappeared,
    Our beloved desaparecidos

composed: 12.03.1986 [johannesburg, south africa under apartheid].

[] Acknowledgements:

Often I Have Thought Of You was previously published in:

Goodreads (usa, 02.02.2012, March 2012);

     www.faroukasvat-poems.blogspot.com (14.07.2015);
     I Dream In Long Sentences (kindle, 2015);
     I Dream In Long Sentences (amazon paperback, p13, 2015).

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Farouk Asvat asserts his moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

without the prior permission of the author in writing.

Permission to publish or reproduce the writings in any format can be obtained from the author.

Reproduction of this work without permission, except for scholarly & nonprofit purposes,

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 @:

farouk asvat - poems: www.faroukasvat-poems.blogspot.com

weapons of words: www.faroukasvat-viewpoint.blogspot.com

piquante ! : www.faroukasvat-piquant.blogspot.com

piqued ! : www.faroukasvat-piqued.blogspot.com

books by farouk asvat: www.faroukasvat-books.blogspot.com

[] also link up on:

google+ : https://plus.google.com/116303232543019349765

linkedin: www.linkedin.com/pub/farouk-asvat/42/6b6/52a

twitter: www.twitter.com/faroukasvat

facebook: www.facebook.com/faroukasvat

amazon kindle author @ www.amazon.com/author/faroukasvat

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07 July 2015

MY HEART IS SOAKED IN SORROW

My heart is soaked in sorrow:

Your warm voice etched on my mind

Eyes dancing with the joys of youth

I keep running around
Looking for myself

My battered guitar

     Wants to sing a new tune
     But my fingers keep drumming
     Out the same old story

I want to fly away:

     a finch living in a fresh dream;
     footsteps skipping away:
     a pebble skimming upon the water

composed: 23.10.2003 [Gqunube, South Africa under new apartheid].

[] Acknowledgements:

My Heart Is Soaked In Sorrow was previously published in:

Goodreads (usa, 17.04.2012, May 2012);

     www.faroukasvat-poems.blogspot.com (07.07.2015);
     I Dream In Long Sentences (kindle, 2015);
     I Dream In Long Sentences (amazon paperback, p12, 2015).

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Farouk Asvat asserts his moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

without the prior permission of the author in writing.

Permission to publish or reproduce the writings in any format can be obtained from the author.

Reproduction of this work without permission, except for scholarly & nonprofit purposes,

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 @:

farouk asvat - poems: www.faroukasvat-poems.blogspot.com

weapons of words: www.faroukasvat-viewpoint.blogspot.com

piquante ! : www.faroukasvat-piquant.blogspot.com

piqued ! : www.faroukasvat-piqued.blogspot.com

books by farouk asvat: www.faroukasvat-books.blogspot.com

[] also link up on:

google+ : https://plus.google.com/116303232543019349765

linkedin: www.linkedin.com/pub/farouk-asvat/42/6b6/52a

twitter: www.twitter.com/faroukasvat

facebook: www.facebook.com/faroukasvat

amazon kindle author @ www.amazon.com/author/faroukasvat

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#love #literature #fiction #novel #poetry #southafrica #apartheid #books

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