P.S. Palestine
for Ghassan Zaqtan
That knowledge can kill you
If your day doesn’t begin in
Torrents of breath and blood
Plants get rescued the sprout
Natters on about tomorrow
Ignores the shells and sparrows
Before the demonstrations
None of us quite believed in
The shouting made us hoarse
The final moments wavering
Of course violence mounts slowly
Looking back out there rocks thrown
We practise it too poetry is dangerous.
© 2012 Rob Schackne
If your day doesn’t begin in
Torrents of breath and blood
Plants get rescued the sprout
Natters on about tomorrow
Ignores the shells and sparrows
Before the demonstrations
None of us quite believed in
The shouting made us hoarse
The final moments wavering
Of course violence mounts slowly
Looking back out there rocks thrown
We practise it too poetry is dangerous.
© 2012 Rob Schackne
"Alone And The River Before Me" poem translated by Fady Joudah: http://www.mptmagazine.com/poem/alone-and-the-river-before-me-140/
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