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As You Say (Not Without Sadness), Poets Don’t See, They Feel
Filed in iRead, writing, June 19, 2009, 11:56 am by NeemaBy Karl Shapiro
As you say, (not without sadness), poets don’t see, they feel. And that’s why people who have turned to feelers seem like poets. Why Children seem poetic. Why when the sap rises in the adolescent heart the young write poetry. Why great catastrophes are stated in verse. Why lunatics are named for the [...]
Try To Praise The Mutilated World
Filed in iRead, writing, June 16, 2009, 7:55 pm by Neemaby Adam Zagajewski
Try to praise the mutilated world.
Remember June’s long days,
and wild strawberries, drops of wine, the dew.
The nettles that methodically overgrow
the abandoned homesteads of exiles.
You must praise the mutilated world.
You watched the stylish yachts and ships;
one of them had a long trip ahead of it,
while salty oblivion awaited others.
You’ve seen the refugees heading nowhere,
you’ve [...]
Kenya: Mother Tongue and Cultural Identity (on rotation
Filed in iRead, September 2, 2008, 10:24 pm by NeemaKenya: Mother Tongue And Cultural Identity
The East African Standard (Nairobi)
http://www.eastandard.net/
OPINION
February 24, 2007
Posted to the web February 26, 2007
Egara Kabaji
Nairobi
The World Mother Tongue Day was marked on last week on Wednesday,
February 21. Unfortunately, there was no significant event organised
to mark the day in Kenya. The newspapers, radio and TV stations were
equally silent yet the question of [...]
From Letters to a young poet – Rainer Marie Rilke
Filed in iRead, August 30, 2008, 12:18 am by NeemaViareggio, near Pisa (Italy)
April 5, 1903
“…ultimately, and precisely in the deepest and most important matters, we are unspeakably alone; and many things must happen, many things must go right, a whole constellation of events must be fulfilled, for one human being to successfully advise or help another.
Letter no. 2
Translated by Stephen Mitchell
