First posted October 24, 2011 Whoever embraces a woman is Adam. The woman is Eve. Everything happens for the first time. I saw something white in the sky. They tell me it is the moon, but what can I do with a word and a mythology. Trees frighten me a little. They are so beautiful.… Read More Happiness. By Jorge Luis Borges
Fade to white A new horizon bathed in light Got to tell you my love, its easy We only have to plant the seed Got to tell you my love, its easy We only have to plant the seed Fade to white A new horizon bathed in light A new beginning You have to believe… Read More The Slow Readers Club: Plant The Seed
Deniz Polat Ankara University On New Year’s Day, Sezen Aksu, Turkey’s most famous composer/lyricist/singer artist, released a new version of an old song, “Living is a Wonderful Thing” on YouTube. The release antagonized pro-government religious groups in Turkey, and a huge debate erupted in the country. The reason for the controversy is the following lyrics: “With… Read More Turkey’s Endless Test with Artistic Freedom: The Case of Sezen Aksu
First posted October 24, 2011 the shifting space, the stepoutside, away into another lifeon a street next to mine that drew me to itself, you and hera few bricks, some wood, a littlewithered grass, and children, shriekingas they played so save the hours, the days, the monthsthat you dreamt of a new spinein the universe,… Read More Salaam comrade
First posted September 06, 2020 Born on September 9, 1950 at village Talwandi Salem in Jalandhar, Avtar Singh Sandhu wrote under the pen name of Pash. Inspired by the Naxalite movement, he was known for his poetry of resistance. The four volumes of his poetry – ‘Loh Katha’, ‘Udadiyan Bazan Magar’, ‘Saddey Sameyaan Vich’ and… Read More Pash, my father: Winkle Sandhu remembers the revolutionary Punjabi poet / Sonia Mann’s emotional letter to her father Baldev Singh Mann
First posted on January 24, 2017 By CZESLAW MILOSZ Translated by Louis Iribarne Milosz’s poem has been described as one of the most moving tributes to the Holocaust victims ever written In Rome on the Campo dei Fiori baskets of olives and lemons, cobbles spattered with wine and the wreckage of flowers. Vendors cover the trestles with… Read More Campo dei Fiori by Czeslaw Milosz
First posted August 31, 2017 The true and durable path into and through experience involves being true … to your own solitude, true to your own secret knowledge. Seamus Heaney you’ve got to tell the world how to treat you [because] if the world tells you how you are going to be treated, you are… Read More Seamus Heaney’s Advice to the Young. By Maria Popova
First posted October 23, 2015 A poem is a glass, through which light is conveyed to us. “March… Someone has walked across the snow, Someone looking for he knows not what.” “Singeth spells.” The poetry of Wallace Stevens makes me happy. This is the simple truth. Pleasure springs from the sense of fluid sound patterns… Read More Susan Howe: The essence of Wallace Stevens: Roses, roses. Fable and dream. The pilgrim sun.
BY MARGARET ATWOOD This is the one song everyonewould like to learn: the songthat is irresistible: the song that forces mento leap overboard in squadronseven though they see the beached skulls the song nobody knowsbecause anyone who has heard itis dead, and the others can’t remember. Shall I tell you the secretand if I do, will… Read More Siren Song
NB: The title of my WordPress blog ‘After the truth shower’ originates in this poem, which was written one evening in 2010. I posted it on Blogger on October 12, 2012, after unsuccessfully attempting to publish it. It was written for my close friend Rabindra Ray (Lalloo), who passed away in January 2019. Here it… Read More My friend
After the truth-shower 