Lyrics of Life

Poetry is untranslatable, like the whole art.

December 25, 2020

In Praise of Coldness

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"If you wish to move your reader," Chekhov said, "you must write more coldly." Herakleitos recommended, "A dry ...
December 23, 2020

No Road Back Home

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In this forgotten place I have no lover’s touch Each night brings darker dreams, I have no amulet My life is all I ask, I have no other thir...
December 20, 2020

Onion

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The smoothness of onions infuriates him so like the skin of women or their expensive clothes and the striptease of onions, which is also a...
December 18, 2020

आठ मिनट छियालीस सेकंड

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दो मिनट नहीं आठ मिनट छियालीस सेकंड का मौन रखा गया अमेरिका में जॉर्ज फ़्लॉयड की स्मृति-सभा में गोरा पुलिस अफ़सर आठ मिनट छियालीस सेकंड अ...
December 10, 2020

Let them not say

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Let them not say: we did not see it. We saw. Let them not say: we did not hear it. We heard. Let them not say: they did not taste it. ...
December 6, 2020

अगर रोज कर्फ्यू के दिन हों

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अगर रोज कर्फ्यू के दिन हों तो कोई अपनी मौत नहीं मरेगा कोई किसी को मार देगा पर मैं स्वाभाविक मौत मरने तक जिन्दा रहना चाहता हूँ दूसरों क...
December 3, 2020

Where Are the War Poets?

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They who in folly or mere greed Enslaved religion, markets, laws, Borrow our language now and bid Us to speak up in freedom’s cause. It...
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