RE: Something by Adonis – West And East…

by deborah russell

Posted to Poetry and Politics on 2003-08-25 10:07:00

Parent message is 505886
West and East

Something burrowed deep
into history’s tunnel, something
ornamental, charged with explosives —
it held its baby poison
with petrol for a poisonous merchant
to sing into sleep.

A childlike East
implored, and hollered for help
to its invincible grand master, the West.
This map has been altered though:
the whole universe is on fire,
East and West but the ashes
gathered and moulded into a single grave.

Adonis –
(Translation by Sargon Boulus)

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D Russell

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