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some more names, billy
temporal
billy*
am moved
you have a way with words
and tears well up
as i think of mothers
wives, parents, siblings
for whom time ended
with that attack
and then i see a lanky
bespectacled black
saying chicken come home....
a remark (that most don't know)
he was to retract
when he found compassion
billy
am moved
you have a way with words
a poet with a pulsating
muscle bundle
does it not feel the pain
of the dead - the near dead
and the near living
elsewhere in the world?
why is your world so confined
to the US, and some countries
across the big pond?
ali, bhupendra
carlos, dev, ebere,
valin, wen
xian, yuan, zoyenka
they too played and lived here once
before succumbing to dictates
of being born where they were
of being subjected to the whims
of machiavelli's disciples
and hard to believe, billy
hard to believe this
they number in hundreds of thousands
as you say
So many names,
there is barely room
on the walls of the heart.
some more names, billy
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Preeti
July 19, 2006
09:11 PM
Emotive ... so expressive ..the message is perceptive .
(what inspired it , if i may ask)
Vikas Chowdhry
URL
July 20, 2006
05:05 AM
I assume bombings in Lebanon?
balaji
July 20, 2006
06:42 AM
Dear t
very evocative.
i read billy's poetry too. it's very touching.
@vikas
and hafa too.
it is not easy to be a humanist i guess, without being branded and cursed by all, sadly.
temporal
URL
July 20, 2006
02:06 PM
Preeti:
what inspired it?...hmmmmm...don't know...honest:)
the devi of inspiration strikes at whim
a word, a phrase, a broadcast snippet, a conversation or discussion...or even something lurking in the subconscious...
this one if i tax memory was over the media hoopla around 9/11 annniversary some years back...for the US media one american life is equal to 10/20/100 lives of those who live elsewhere...and for me each life is equally important...this very dichotomy led to this poem
thanks for appreciating this
Vikas:
not specifically...but it can be read as that too
Balaji:
thanks...humanist can be a loaded word too...am not sure...at the moment feel like wayward centrist;)
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