Thursday, June 5, 2008

Adornos’ Sweat

Setback or discovery?
Evidence or puzzlement?
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I’m so sorry comrade Adorno,
After Auschwitz,
There’s Poetry yet: Survived!
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But amusingly, what gets obsessed
Is a different kind of veiled fact
And its mammoth statement:
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A cozy narrative
A snobbish self-esteem
A no name but: Religion.
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I’m so sorry comrade Adorno,
After Auschwitz,
There’s Poetry & so on.

Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Kafka's Breath

Is there any poetry after Bizarreness …?
Poetry survives…
What gets hooked on a nightmare is Progress
Progress
Progress... an ongoing deed of our self-indulgent civilization...
Is there any poetry after Bizarreness…?
The answer is plain… Yes, there is!
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Marx's Breath

Is there any poetry after Money…?
Poetry survives…
What gets hooked on a nightmare is Capitalism
Capitalism
Capitalism... a ceaseless blunder of our narcissistic civilization...
Is there any poetry after Money…?
The answer is plain… Yes, there is!
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Previous Kafka's Breath

Galileo's Breath

Is there any poetry after inquisition…?
Poetry survives…
What gets hooked on a nightmare is Belief
Belief
Belief… ambiguous leftover of an archaic psyche.
Is there any poetry after inquisition …?
The answer is plain… Yes, there is!
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Darwin's Breath

Is there any poetry after Evolution…?

Poetry survives…

What gets hooked on a nightmare is Theodicy
Theodicy
Theodicy… enduring shock to human unfinished awareness.
Is there any poetry after Evolution…?

The answer is plain… Yes, there is!
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Sunday, June 1, 2008

The Hidden Holocausts (There are more than one)

Act 1: The Protagonist
....©SFWY

The sumptuous Blame sings like a mask,
Louder than the naked evidence. Nudity
Which persists behind the deceptiveness
Whose dignity seems to be delightful.
....©SFWY
Like a disguise, the Blame keeps quiet,
Better than the victims' silence. Hush
Which survives behind the craftiness
Whose protocol seems to be enchanting.
....©SFWY
Act 2: The Accomplices
....©SFWY
The stage would have been the unclothed
Clue where to find the unspeakableness
But suddenly the oily Ignorance shew up
Distracting the brains with its glamour.
....©SFWY
What a performance!, said the Indifference
Grasping the undamaged people's awareness
With its bewitching tentacles while bravos
And hoorays were erupting from them, noisily.
....©SFWY
Epilogue: The Fact.
....©SFWY
Meanwhile, the blame sings a silky tune
And dances a graceful choreography over
The brittle bones of victims' silence:
Without skin-color, without human-race

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Leonardo's Breath

Is there any poetry after genius…?

Poetry survives…

What gets hooked on a nightmare is Autonomy
Autonomy
Autonomy... suddenly humanity becomes a grown-up…
Is there any poetry after genius …?

The answer is plain… Yes, there is!
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Abraham's Breath

Is there any poetry after Judaism…?
Poetry survives…
What gets hooked on a nightmare is Race
Race
Race... a longtime hypocrisy of our selfish gene...
Is there any poetry after Judaism …?
The answer is plain… Yes, there is!
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Previous Darwin's Breath

Einstein's Breath

Is there any poetry after Hiroshima…?
Poetry survives…
What gets hooked on a nightmare is Innocence
Innocence
Innocence... free will is not childish anymore...
Is there any poetry after Hiroshima…?
The answer is plain… Yes, there is!
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Adulthood is here now
Adulthood
Adulthood stands right now
to be blamed.
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Previous Nietzsche’s Breath
My own translation into
Spanish

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

El Aliento de Nietzsche

¿Hay poesía después de Auschwitz?
La poesía sobrevive…
Lo que se lía en una pesadilla es la Teología
Teología
Teología que hace mucho tiempo, machaca huesos, cuerpos, carne…
¿Hay poesía después de Auschwitz?
La respuesta es contundente… ¡Por supuesto!
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De regreso al poema en Inglés

Nietzsche’s Breath

Is there any poetry after Auschwitz...?
Poetry survives…
What gets hooked on a nightmare is Theology
Theology
Theology which long ago has being smashing bones, bodies, flesh…
Is there any poetry after Auschwitz…?
The answer is plain… Yes, there is!
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My own translation into Spanish