Buds of transparent capsules thorny flowering fruits sterile or inundated vegetation metamorphosis of rock populous reign of minerals large tubular veins fissures fields of metallic gangs in repose the wind pushing or pulling the movement of ice and between dusty clouds rivers that rise By Juan Liscano Translated by Ron Rodriguez©2010
My past has me afraid. But insecure is all its made of me. I have someone willing to be by my side. Just that feeling is forever engraved in me. I try, but I dont expect her to understand. She gives, but I accept with semi-open hand. Its hard to get rid of pain when [...]
No legal ties to bind us, no shared blood in our veins. Yet I call you father, in many many ways. If soothing words can dry a tear, and love can ease the way. When difficult times assault, I know you’ll always stay. You’ve helped me travel down a path of unfamiliar roads. So many [...]
We are Tunisian and proud to be We knocked a tyrant down called Ben Ali It was the first time we felt free With martyrs blood we water the Tunisian tree That has countless branches but remains the same tree So high in the sky even clouds are glad too see How this great people [...]
…the very height of absurdity Behold, at the furthest edge of reality Where primordial chaos battles with ancient night At the point where the mind’s eye can no longer see There stands God, illuminating with His heart’s light When all of our science and all of language fail When fair Reason reaches her bright limits [...]
To the fearless… Fear is the ultimate tool of destroying the soul Fear will destroy the individual and the people Yet there are men who know no fear, are un-shattered, whole Fear… fears them it seems, they lead from the moral steeple Banish bestial banal fear utterly and be free Be like the sand [...]
When life becomes hurried and choices are unclear, There is an unseen Presence who will surely get us there. We may not reach our destiny,at our chosen time But there is someone wiser whose help we’ll always find. He’ll give us hope to find our path,a light to guide the way. His Strength will pull [...]
For the victims of the January 24, 2011 Domodedovo International Airport bombing Thirty five extinguished breaths Thirty five senseless deaths Thirty five names posted today …in a world morally grey To be buried in the search-engine ten-minute update To be snatched away to their pointless fate No! I object, I will not let… …the machine [...]
I thank you forefathers for fighting for our rights For sharpening the steel of your swords to shed blood For loading barrels of your guns, setting the sights For dipping quill in the inkwell of Liberty’s God For you stood your ground, for truth, freedom and honor I thank you for the bill of rights [...]
