Saturday, April 2, 2011

Exile

night
after night

I walk

the smouldering
dark streets

Sevastapol
Crimea

Inkerman
Odessa

Balkan
Lucknow

Belfast
is many

places then
as now

all lie
in ruins

and
it is

as much
as I can do

to save
even one

from oblivion

-Ciaran Carson, 2003
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5 comments:

  1. TaradharmaApril 2, 2011 at 5:51 PM

    I'm feeling this great sorrow for the world right now. We're really in the thick of it, aren't we?

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  2. Shaw KenaweApril 4, 2011 at 4:32 PM

    Heartbreaking.

    I don't know why, but reading that reminded me of this poem by Cavafy.

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  3. Shaw KenaweApril 4, 2011 at 4:33 PM

    Link isn't working. Try this.

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  4. Ima WiserApril 7, 2011 at 11:08 AM

    Do not despair........
    Polly (Ima)

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  5. TaradharmaApril 7, 2011 at 1:31 PM

    well, now, maybe you should despair. how very sad it all is.

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