Writings and musings are snapshots in time. So here is a snapshot in time.
Note, March 26, 2015:
Beheadings are back. Thank you ISIS for keeping this poem relevant, although the atrocities you condone will be the cause for your ultimate demise and disappearance.
Enjoy:
October 11, 2004
"So much
news to carry on our backs…every day…we should wrap our bottles in it and learn
from it and stand up and shout about it.
But most of us know nothing – most of the news comes from afar and even
if it’s geographically close it still comes from afar – Wealth and shame from
poverty and blame – murder two streets away but might as well be a hundred
miles. We know nothing because we create
our circles and hide in them, protecting ourselves within them."
By Thomas Herr
Car Bombs
Kill
11 in Baghdad
Bloody
Day
Today
In Baghdad
Beheadings
British
boarding schools
Walls
hide abuse
Former
students
From
sixties
Come out
with
Their
stories
Beheadings
Pursuing
a lead into
The Sinai
Bombings
Israeli
Vacationers
Go Home
Beheadings
Taiwan Calls
For Peace
Talks
with
Mainland China
Beheadings
Rumsfeld
visits
Troops
Beheadings
Bush
calls
Kerry
calls
Bush
A Liar
Beheadings
Grapple
with
The Web
World
Wide Web
But is
not to be believed
Mistreating
Abu Graib
Terrorist
Prisoners
Shame
Shame
Shame
Beheadings.
So, there's a happy little poem from long ago, forgot I wrote it! Tell me, has anything changed?
Glad you're back online. I happened upon your blog because I'm currently translating Rilke's 'Die Insel' for my own blog and saw that you had done it about a year ago: good work. I like the link to the 'Day with Rilke' blog, so thanks for that. As for the 2004 poem above, though the subject matter is so different, your comments about us living in our own little worlds relate it to 'Die Insel', nicht wahr?
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