Poetry

1951
Lie here comrade in this unstoned tomb,The rains shall soon level the earthen mound, And you be food for maggots and worms,But we will not weep that you are gone.*We will not weep, not even a drop,Or hang our heads down or beat our breasts,For you have lived your life...
1952
Blood from my wounds dripDrop by dropInto an uncongealing pool.Hounds do not painThere's even a joy in themFor I know that you willDrown in the pool of my bloodHelpless, blinded by its bloody thickness Unable to cry for help.For my blood would have chokedYour throat and sealed your lips,And only...
Hands suspended in the void,Grope in a haze of smoke,Of burning cities.Ten thousand years of garbage,Ten thousand printed words,In all their combinations - burn,Ten thousand thoughts.*Bewildered and schemeless,In the dream-walk of a somnambulist,The sobbing mind behind the groping,Hands seek the tragic impossibility,Of re-entering relentlessly moving timeOf re-drafting the written line.The...
This poem is a clear expression of indignation towards colonialism that dehumanises labourers as experienced by the collective persona. To the colonisers, these labourers are vital to the development of a colony yet their existence is akin to a “worm” - an organism with a role yet often dismissed. It...
1954
Love, Eternal MotherThough your missionIs the fulfilmentOf primeval love*Loving youIs soul's blinding visionTransforming lustIn its transcendant mist.*Even the commonSalty sweat drops burnWith life's pure blue fireOn your breast.*What is sweeterThan cosmic fire destroyThe thin cold skinThat guards virginity.*Peace comesWhen tears have soothedThe searing joyAnd lust is shot with love's blinding...
1958
The night is liquid black glassA slow enclosing oozy silence.Midnight crushes the soul in itsCrystal hard grip.Only the night guards' boots kick splinters In a lonely silent night.*A hole in the nightThe wind whispered through the windowA name - your name.A stealthy silent monologue in a prison cell. The wind...
They will not let you stay or let me go Come cover with laughter and chatter The longing, the anguish of partingI can do nothing but watch you go.*Time knows nothing of love and sorrow The clock is merciless, relentlessAnd hurries along without pityI can do nothing but watch you...
With words make a maskSo my face will not show terrors Of mind stretched on rack.Hide those drooping cornersOf lips in a pain twisted smile.*Patience, understanding Quintessence of distilled reason Can never be my anodyne.Only guilt eases my painFor it is I who turn the screw.*Pain, come purge me my...
The night crushes the day to death And I live by night.Midnight begins yet another new day And I my prayerFor the coming of the night.*I am of the living deadLife begins at nightThe sun brings its blinding rays So I my prayerFor the blackening of the light*The dead shall...
Man is but a broken reedSo make me a fluteAnd playLove songs for the dancing feet Of firm breasted village belles.*On the plain of the reedsGreen growingReeds pray to heaven for life. Rest when death rains from the sky Plough shares grow spears.*There is steel in angry shame That makes...
1959
Only the gods cannot dieThe rest can end everythingIn death's embrace.Taman ShudThe fearful drugWith its painless dreamless sleep.*In my loves bed I must lieA sun supreme in the skyThe only godMazdaThe jealous lordWho burns all stars to cinders.*If that love I cannot beMy love brings me only painCome death's embraceTaman...