Anna B
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Almost all English translations of Rumi are not Rumi, especially those by Coleman Barks
The End and the Beginning
By Wisława Szymborska
After every war
someone has to clean up.
Things won’t
straighten themselves up, after all.
Someone has to push the rubble
to the side of the road,
so the corpse-filled wagons
can pass.
Someone has to get mired
in scum and ashes,
sofa springs,
splintered glass,
and bloody rags.
Someone has to drag in a girder
to prop
... See moreThis is the best poem on war I think I have ever read.
Too Late The Truth
Haki R. Madhubuti
who quieted the fourth estate,
took words, images, and liberating ideas
from the recently comatosed and stole the nation?
why was there not a storm among us
confronting the wealth of ignorance?
what is the price of deceptive and enriched silence?
who compromised the music of truth,
the poetry of deep thought?
what of th
... See morehttps://poets.org/poem/let-america-be-america-again
This poem kept me going during the insanity of the Trump years.
“If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.” - George Orwell
And when one submits to the self-compulsion of ideological thinking, one surrenders one’s inner freedom to think.
Loneliness arises when thought is divorced from reality, when the common world has been replaced by the tyranny of coercive logical demands.