tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46044664563844581362024-03-14T03:58:19.580-07:00Indran AmirthanayagamAll poetry all the time
in English, French,Spanish, Portuguese and Haitian Creole.Indran Amirthanayagamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03466735948060961996noreply@blogger.comBlogger193125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4604466456384458136.post-59924308971952476722023-11-07T05:24:00.005-08:002023-11-07T05:24:42.270-08:00BASTA, a poem.<p> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Basta</span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-2d7af0cd-7fff-941c-209e-470bcbe45541"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="text-wrap: nowrap;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="text-wrap: nowrap;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Basta”-- Pope Francisco, November 6, 2023</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Basta. Enough. Stop killing</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">children in Gaza and Israel.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Cease fire. Let leaders wise</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">or mad, it does not matter.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">We have no time for</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">psychological evaluations.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Let these directors</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">of the tragedy meet</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">in a foreign capital</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">to make peace. Do not</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">kill innocents anymore.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Stop. Too much. This</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">is not complicated,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">not difficult</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">to understand</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Do not kill new</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">generations, their </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">fathers and mothers. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Stanch hatred </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">rising among </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">survivors.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="text-wrap: nowrap;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Indran Amirthanayagam c) November 6, 2023</span></p><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></div></span>Indran Amirthanayagamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03466735948060961996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4604466456384458136.post-86856925191814566492023-08-24T08:45:00.001-07:002023-08-24T08:45:13.023-07:00We Did It! a poem about landing on the Southern Pole of the Moon<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">We did it!</span></p><div class="" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Google Sans", Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><div class="ii gt" id=":9vk" jslog="20277; u014N:xr6bB; 1:WyIjdGhyZWFkLWE6cjMyNjI0MDA4ODM1NDg5NzM1ODEiLG51bGwsbnVsbCxudWxsLG51bGwsbnVsbCxudWxsLG51bGwsbnVsbCxudWxsLG51bGwsbnVsbCxudWxsLFtdXQ..; 4:WyIjbXNnLWE6cjkxOTg0MzkwMTcyNDYzMTI2MzIiLG51bGwsW11d" style="direction: ltr; font-size: 0.875rem; margin: 8px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="a3s aiL " id=":9uv" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: small; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.5; overflow: hidden;"><div dir="ltr"><span id="m_9068887666135478312gmail-docs-internal-guid-e794761f-7fff-57ca-4bef-35b9f75fdd34"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Engineers roar, slap each other's</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">backs, go gaga as Chandrayaan-3</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">sends Vikram to land on</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">the Southern Pole of the Moon</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">opening to the intrepid Pragyan</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">that will go a-roaming where</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">no robot has gone before. This</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">is a huge step for India, yes,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">and for the rest of us as we </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">see our kind cross boundaries</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">that exist only in the mind,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">drawing planetary sustenance </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">from this feat. Experiments </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">the rover conducts will be </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">monitored on Earth, adding </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">I hope to discussion about </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">nations, pride and back-</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">slapping, that universalists </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">beam into our screens now, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">not politicians who ride </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">on the coattails of engineers,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">who bow for achievements</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">they cannot embody,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">although Mother India</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">is older than any single</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">leader, and minorities</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">of all sorts are to be found</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">among the Chandrayaan staff.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Indran Amirthanayagam c) August 23, 2023</span></p></span></div></div></div></div>Indran Amirthanayagamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03466735948060961996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4604466456384458136.post-5338995839190063712023-04-05T16:01:00.000-07:002023-04-05T16:01:02.404-07:00A Day Of Service (Trump's Booking), a poem. Indran Amirthanayagam<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;">A Day of Service (Trump's Booking)</span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-6f0476c5-7fff-014f-5816-4c224d4377f5"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He used to be president. He said once</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">he could stand in the middle of 5</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 0.6em; vertical-align: super;">th</span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Avenue</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and shoot a man and he would walk away</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">free. Today he was arraigned for paying</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">off Stormy Daniels to keep quiet about</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">their past affair while he campaigned</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">to take the oath and lead the country</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">through what turned out to be a series</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">of ruinous events, including the dying</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">of millions during the pandemic.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He entered court, seeming befuddled,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">did not say a word, then left and drove</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">in a motorcade along the BQE, swept</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ahead by the police, to the hangar</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">where his 757 waited to fly him back</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">to Florida. Meanwhile, his lawyers</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">bemoaned the “unfair” charges</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">while in Washington today a group</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">of Latin American exiles visited</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">to plead their arguments about Venezuela,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nicaragua and Cuba before the OAS </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and State. They came by car from Miami, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">a much longer trip than the rich man Trump's.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I met them at the State Department's</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">door, allowed them to take a photograph</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">with the flags, and just outside, to raise</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">their own banner and denounce tyranny</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">in their homelands. I felt I had been</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">of some service, opened the door</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">to the ordinary citizen, one of whom</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">had spent almost five years</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">in a Havana jail, for charges related</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">to assembly and speech. I am not</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">a Little Havana republican. But</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I will denounce crimes when</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">committed and without discriminating</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">against any perpetrator, including</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the free-shooting 5</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 0.6em; vertical-align: super;">th</span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> avenue huckster</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">turned ex Commander in Chief,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mr. Donald John Trump.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Indran Amirthanayagam, c) April 4, 2023</span></p><div><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></span>Indran Amirthanayagamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03466735948060961996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4604466456384458136.post-61622945870539415942023-03-27T20:05:00.003-07:002023-03-27T20:05:39.947-07:00The Rulers, a poem. Indran Amirthanayagam<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Rulers</span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-6fa0dc9c-7fff-ed75-ae96-c7574a3b41e1"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We are teachers today and kids.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We are kids today and teachers.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We are thirteen years old stabbing</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">our professor in the playground</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">at Thomasia Montoro public school</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">in São Paulo. We are twenty eight</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">years old and female with two</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">automatic rifles and a handgun</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">killing three nine-year-olds</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and three sixty-somethings</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">at the Covenant school</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">in Nashville. What distinguishes</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">a public from private, state</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">from religious school? Nothing.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nothing. Nothing. In each</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">guns and knives rule.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Indran Amirthanayagam c) March 27, 2023 </span></p><div><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></span>Indran Amirthanayagamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03466735948060961996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4604466456384458136.post-72986990627437391282023-03-08T12:22:00.005-08:002023-03-08T12:24:49.495-08:00Cada seis horas, um poema escrito neste Dia Internacional Da Mulher<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: New; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cada seis horas</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: New; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A verdade que você sinala</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: New; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">neste Dia Intenacional</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: New; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">da Mulher não tem resposta.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: New; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">O fato que morre cada</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: New; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">seis horas uma mulher</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: New; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">a mão do seu namorado</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: New; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">no Brasil, um país</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: New; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">que celebra tais misturas</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: New; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">é mais que alarmante</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: New; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">e se eu começo</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: New; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">a inquirir nos diverses</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: New; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">países do mundo</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: New; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">incluindo Estados Unidos</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: New; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(onde o número diário </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: New; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">e tres, ainda alarmante)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: New; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">e alguns outros onde</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: New; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">assassinar a mulher</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: New; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">por respeitar o honor</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: New; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">da família é considerado</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: New; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">um direito. Não.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: New; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Não tenho resposta.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.284; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: New; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-family: New; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Indran Amirthanayagam dr) o 8 março, 2023</span></p>Indran Amirthanayagamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03466735948060961996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4604466456384458136.post-51338895255452368262023-02-18T19:31:00.002-08:002023-02-18T19:31:59.350-08:00We Are All Chileans Now, a poem (In Memoriam: Pablo Neruda) Indran Amirthanayagam<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;">We Are All Chileans Today</span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-ec6f2b74-7fff-f379-8b18-ddf3ddb850fc"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The poet did not pass only from a broken </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">heart, not because he could not eat as </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">his prostate cancer spread, not after </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">he read of Salvador Allende bombed </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">in the Moneda, not walking out alive. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The poet died because of </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">clostridium botulinum injected into </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">his stomach while he slept in Santa Maria </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">clinic, Santiago, alone inexplicably while </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">his wife and driver packed bags at Isla Negra </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">for the family's flight to exile in Mexico. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He was killed in a hospital by </span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">a third party</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">according to forensic scientists examining </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the remains. The </span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">third party</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> cannot silence </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the poet. The </span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">third party </span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">cannot say love </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">is short and forgetting long.The </span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">third party</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">will not be allowed to have the last word </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">in the history of Chile, of democracy.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Indran Amirthanayagam, c) February 18, 2023</span></p><div><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></span>Indran Amirthanayagamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03466735948060961996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4604466456384458136.post-74041937265255131612023-02-07T12:24:00.000-08:002023-02-07T12:24:01.989-08:00https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/book-reviews/power-words-and-power-desire-manuel-ulacias-origami-jonathan-harrington<p> https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/book-reviews/power-words-and-power-desire-manuel-ulacias-origami-jonathan-harrington</p>Indran Amirthanayagamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03466735948060961996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4604466456384458136.post-69823303082718088382023-02-02T17:07:00.003-08:002023-02-02T17:07:39.308-08:00Interview with Indran Amirthanayagam at www.hangingloosepress.com<p> https://www.hangingloosepress.com/news-events/catching-up-with-indran-amirthanayagam</p>Indran Amirthanayagamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03466735948060961996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4604466456384458136.post-70732661095758625172023-01-26T08:42:00.003-08:002023-01-26T08:42:32.046-08:00Peru, By A Thread. A poem. <p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #500050; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;">Perú, By A Thread</span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-e32bd0e4-7fff-522c-85b4-d80d39f0fc8b"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #500050; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Perspective is everything.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #500050; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Peruvian press owned</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #500050; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">by white elites who </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #500050; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">dismiss </span><span style="color: #500050; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the chola</span><span style="color: #500050; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> hordes,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #500050; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the new president</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #500050; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">accompanied by ministers</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #500050; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">from Fujimori’s dictatorship,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #500050; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">daughter Keiko just released</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #500050; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">from her chargesheet.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #500050; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The cards are decked</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #500050; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">in dear old Peru. So when</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #500050; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">you see a peasant throwing</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #500050; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">stones and hear the crack</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #500050; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">of bullets fired by police</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #500050; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">in return, when the stone-</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #500050; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">thrower has no job</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #500050; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">or money or prospects</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #500050; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">while copper mining</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #500050; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">conglomerates trade</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #500050; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">on precious metals</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #500050; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">markets, and artisanal</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #500050; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Amazon gold diggers</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #500050; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">are hounded by Army</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #500050; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and police gangs</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #500050; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">in the name of</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #500050; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">biodiversity, when</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #500050; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">nobody invests enough</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #500050; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">to give farmers</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #500050; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">in the </span><span style="color: #500050; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">VRAEM</span><span style="color: #500050; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> alternative</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #500050; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">crops to the coca leaf,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #500050; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">when elites, defended</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #500050; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">by misguided and</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #500050; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">brainwashed police,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #500050; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">lament the shaking</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #500050; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">down of their august</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #500050; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">institutions, the stock</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #500050; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">market, the courts,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #500050; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jockey Plaza </span><span style="color: #500050; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and all</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #500050; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the plazas of the</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #500050; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">commercial Peruvian</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #500050; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">disney world, then</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #500050; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">take a deep breath,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #500050; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">step back or step</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #500050; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">forward but do not</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #500050; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">allow the new</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #500050; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">rulers to stamp</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #500050; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">upon your inalienable</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #500050; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">right to say no,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #500050; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and to vote again,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #500050; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">not in two years</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #500050; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">but as soon as</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #500050; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">elections can be</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #500050; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">arranged in the</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #500050; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">one country still </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #500050; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">called Perú.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #500050; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="color: #500050; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Indran Amirthanayagam, c) January 21, 2023</span></p><div><span style="color: #500050; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></span>Indran Amirthanayagamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03466735948060961996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4604466456384458136.post-91846625768932768512022-05-27T03:52:00.004-07:002022-05-27T03:52:35.210-07:00What's Next, a poem. Indran Amirthanayagam<p> </p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>What's Next?</b></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">We are not going to give the fellows a
pass with expressions of condolence,
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">minutes of silence, then off they go to
the NRA Convention in Houston
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">while leaving instructions to block the
latest attempt to forgive student loans,
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">increase funds for Covid tests, fund
food stamps, allow a woman the right
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">to choose, and ban littering in
national parks, or force the wearing of masks.
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I am tired and hungry, friends,
repeating the litany, naming all the blockages,
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">scrimmages, jostling and
gerrymandering, mouthing off and filibustering
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">that we call a democracy. We must ban
guns outright. Eliminate any sacred
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">or sacrilegous right to bear them
hidden or not in public. Can you imagine
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">that Texan law allows for this? That
the deranged eighteen-year-old murderer
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">of nineteen kids and two teachers did
not have to account for the guns he used –</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">albeit against the law by stepping on
to school grounds--to massacre and remind
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">us that we have so much to do to heal
first and then build this democracy
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">to assure the safety of all who live
here, so help us God.
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> Indran Amirthanayagam, c) May 25, 2022</p>Indran Amirthanayagamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03466735948060961996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4604466456384458136.post-69214494198191464862022-05-24T17:45:00.003-07:002022-05-24T17:45:24.305-07:00This Time, a poem. Indran Amirthanayagam<p> <b style="font-size: large;">This Time</b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Horror, foul murder. butchering
children, this America always
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">with us, kept in news clips, remembered
where I found myself
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">the day the music...and all the
accumulated rage about innocents
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">in America, Asia, Europe ,Australia,
Africa, will they ever get
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">justice? Why allow killers to arm?
Abbott, do you not feel
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">any remorse, responsibility as governor
letting murderers
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">roam with handguns, rifles, shot guns,
automatic weapons
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">in your state which has suffered at
least three mass killings
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">over the last two years? When will they
stop? Will they ever
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">stop? Will you at least leave your
office and allow somebody
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">else to ban the sale of guns by
executive order? Will all senators,</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">governors and congressmen who have
shouted for the right
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">to bear arms receive the pink slip at
some future ballot box?
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">How can we clean house of millions of
fire arms and fiery
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">mouths, bragging, blathering blowhards?
How can this
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">poem reach all possible decisionmakers,
from school boards
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">to police chiefs to politicians and
judges? How can it be
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">read on the agenda of the Supreme
Court? God, can we make
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">a difference now, finally, once and for
all, find justice and create</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">a safer, resilient democracy in the
United States of America?</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Indran Amirthanayagam, c) May 24,
2022</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>Indran Amirthanayagamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03466735948060961996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4604466456384458136.post-7961369512360122822022-05-21T07:40:00.003-07:002022-05-21T07:58:24.217-07:00Middle East Encounter, a poem: Indran Amirthanayagam<p></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Middle East Encounter</b></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Seeds were roasted on za'atar and grape
leaves stuffed
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">with sweetmeats. Falafel balls rolled
on the platter</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">and hummus and babaganoush sloshed
patiently
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">in bowls as we dipped pita bread and
talked of atrocities</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">from the eternal front, but we spoke
with joy as musicians</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">shook tambours and beat drums, as
dancers raised hands
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">and swirled in front of us, and on
arriving home you sent
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">me the latest articles, what Sunday
scribes opined and
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">human rights groups, their press
releases, even the U.N.
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">chief calling for investigation knowing
that a vote
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">in the Security Council would be vetoed
by one
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">or more of the permanent members. We
know</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">the ritual. We know the score. But we
go on,</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">exhausting all civil means, calling on
morality,</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">shame, writing poems, appealing to the
conscience</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">of presidents and prime ministers, that
they insist</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">on unearthing truth, from where the
errant or targeted</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">bullet came, and who must now take the
blame.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> Indran Amirthanayagam, c) May 15,
2022
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p><br /><p></p>Indran Amirthanayagamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03466735948060961996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4604466456384458136.post-55772018900210368812022-05-05T14:40:00.003-07:002022-05-05T14:40:51.796-07:00Woman In A Field, Indran Amirthanayagam ( inspired by "Where the Wildflowers Grow" by Victoria Twomey<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNkuzI2lAps084N9bTj62vTQb2MpK8rGYyfNBEx_lPhyoCaG3hN1TwhuknCaDtqT7z9sugaMpF60aZppZ9R8hobO3R6RVsAYrDNw2_AB0aqJT_wXjwd0DWpKT5s_k942mgzt_bXgnv6spcBk4fIxfS-6APRL6VD1PvCTWmH4IQsYe0g6g-IYWVCiGEXA/s1000/Victoria_Twomey_Where-the-Wild-Flowers-Grow.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="666" data-original-width="1000" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNkuzI2lAps084N9bTj62vTQb2MpK8rGYyfNBEx_lPhyoCaG3hN1TwhuknCaDtqT7z9sugaMpF60aZppZ9R8hobO3R6RVsAYrDNw2_AB0aqJT_wXjwd0DWpKT5s_k942mgzt_bXgnv6spcBk4fIxfS-6APRL6VD1PvCTWmH4IQsYe0g6g-IYWVCiGEXA/s320/Victoria_Twomey_Where-the-Wild-Flowers-Grow.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Woman In A Field</b></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I want to paint your sky blue skirt
spotted
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">with hundreds of white islands, ocean
on land
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">before a primrosed field, grass green,
hair
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">a flame, talisman beside my keyboard,
gift
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">received. I thank you now, and dream of
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">a world beyond my own eyes, of
essences,
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">sky,water, woman, primroses, grass. I
say
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">the peace that came dropping slow drops
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">for me as well as I gaze on poppies,
butter-</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">cups next to primroses. I can catch
them all
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">in a net of wildflowers, and you how
shall
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I name your abandon before field and
sky wearing
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">the ocean on your body? How shall I
turn away?
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Will you walk with me reading these
lines?</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> Indran Amirthanayagam, c) May 5, 2022</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>Indran Amirthanayagamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03466735948060961996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4604466456384458136.post-80261312814590537052022-04-19T04:41:00.005-07:002022-04-19T04:47:15.453-07:00FROM FLORIDA, WITH LOVE<p> </p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>From Florida, with Love</b></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">K.K.M are the initials of the federal
judge who just struck down the C.D.C rule
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">requiring face masks on public
transport, buses, trains, planes. K.K.M. says
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">the C.D.C exceeded <i>its authority and
failed to follow proper procedure </i>in setting
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">the rule, whose target, the pesky Covid
19, is irrelevant in her view. The millon
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">U.S. dead from various variations, the
latest known as BA.2, did not enter
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">her judgment, could not be admitted
into her considered thinking. No, for K.K.M</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">the rule has been violated, or perhaps
misinterpreted in the name of some greater
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">good, like preservation of life, or
supporting the damned Democrats. Yes, folks,
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">KKM was appointed by the former
president, the orange-haired preacher of fire,
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">brimstone and falsehoods, who tore off
his mask on the parapet of the White House
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">for the world to see ( while gloating).
The footer to the palace scene failed to note
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">that he had just been administered a
rare drug that cured him of the virus
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">that ravaged his fellow Americans. But
now, all of this will be corrected,
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">the rule enforced, and from a federal
court in the sunny state of Florida.
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> Indran Amirthanayagam,c) April
18,2022</p>Indran Amirthanayagamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03466735948060961996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4604466456384458136.post-23560783064346648522022-03-08T13:00:00.000-08:002022-03-08T13:00:05.706-08:00On International Women's Day: Indran Amirthanayagam<p> </p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>On International
Women's Day</b></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">On this early Spring day in the Beltway
I think of all the women
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">who have woken me up, fed and clothed
me, teased and got me
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">out of bed and into walking shoes, who
have inspired my writing
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">books, who give me a pacific healing
embrace when I start to stiffen,
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">fall into despair; and then I think of
women poets who have taught
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">my lyrics to dance, of Sylvia Plath's
rhythms, Emily Dickinson's
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">ellipses and dashes, of fragments that
remain of the enigmatic
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Sappho, and then of diplomats and
poets, of Rosario Castellanos,</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Gabriela Mistral who spread her lyrics
in the League of Nations.
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">So today, friends, I celebrate women
who have helped to make
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">me a poet and diplomat, a boy turned
into man, a friend embracing
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">the child and birth while cries of the
murdered are calling out
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">from the battle fields that engage
their troops despite
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">this day where hope and rhyme entwine.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Indran Amirthanayagam c) March 8,
2022</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>Indran Amirthanayagamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03466735948060961996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4604466456384458136.post-45069715615767554622021-03-19T21:34:00.001-07:002021-03-19T21:34:36.893-07:00A mi muerte: Karen Romero<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/4MMJy2rBHW8" frameborder="0"></iframe>Indran Amirthanayagamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03466735948060961996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4604466456384458136.post-60143194688157979422020-09-17T06:31:00.001-07:002020-09-17T06:31:50.502-07:00Resurrection, a poem by Indran Amirthanayagam<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ly7PW6PF21Q" width="459"></iframe>Indran Amirthanayagamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03466735948060961996noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4604466456384458136.post-72705383533034271922020-07-13T18:37:00.000-07:002020-07-13T18:38:15.405-07:00La poesía como salvación, una lectura de The Migrant States, por Enrique Bernales<div class="gt-content-header gt-image" style="border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 13px; margin: -30px -30px 30px; overflow: hidden; position: relative;">
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: red;">I</span>ndran Amirthanayagam</span> es un poeta prolífico, siempre migrando de una a otra casa lingüística. Así, mientras escribo esta reseña sobre su último libro de poesía en inglés, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Migrant-States-Indran-Amirthanayagam/dp/1934909637" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Migrant States</em> </a>(Hanging Loose Press, Brooklyn, New York, 2020), acaba de salir otro libro suyo en francés, <a href="https://www.editions-harmattan.fr/index.asp?navig=catalogue&obj=livre&no=66338" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;">Sur l’île nostalgique</a> (L’Harmattan, 2020), cuyo tema principal es la isla de Haití, tan presente en su poesía.</div>
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Indran nació en el seno de la comunidad tamil en Ceilán, un país que, como el mismo ha señalado en diferentes entrevistas, ya no existe. ¿Qué significa que una administración cambie su nombre de Ceilán a Sri Lanka? Los nombres de los territorios son esenciales para entender cuál es el discurso de las élites que construyen el ideal de la comunidad nacional. Así cuando la isla se llamaba Ceilán, la comunidad tamil formaba parte integral de la nación. Por otro lado, cuando se refunda la isla como Sri Lanka — <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Isla Bella</em> en sánscrito — es la mayoría singalesa (74.9%) la que impone su visión al territorio, siendo la comunidad tamil (4.2%) a la que pertenece el poeta, traductor, profesor y diplomático, una de las grandes perjudicadas, consecuencia de eso fue la cruenta Guerra Civil iniciada por el movimiento de <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Los Tigres Tamiles</em> que buscaba la independencia de los territorios considerados históricamente tamiles en el norte y el este de la administración y conocidos también como <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Eelam</em> — <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">la Patria</em> en tamil.</div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Migrant States</em> es un libro donde el poeta, la poesía, la isla y el eterno movimiento de la migración original crean un encuentro con las diversas comunidades con las que el autor ha interactuado a lo largo de su vida. El libro empieza y culmina con una sección dedicada a Walt Whitman con quien la voz poética ejecuta un diálogo magistral. Así, el poeta de Paumanok, el nombre nativo americano de la isla de Long Island, lugar de nacimiento del poeta nacional de los Estados Unidos de América, y el poeta de Ceilán o Eelam, poeta migrante, poeta de su nación tamil, danzan a lo largo del libro, que es una celebración de las lenguas, de todas las migraciones. <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Migrant States</em> es un encuentro y un intento de integrar en una nueva pequeña patria momentánea, las islas que conforman todas nuestras humanidades, así sucede con los Estados Unidos, con Haití, con Perú, entre otras hermosas y rebeldes geografías.</div>
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La poesía de <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Migrant States</em> continúa el mismo camino estético que el poeta ha creado a lo largo de todas sus publicaciones anteriores en múltiples lenguas, es decir, nos muestran el mapa — <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">y el territorio</em> — de lo que significa lo poético para el poeta: una invitación a descubrir y hermanarse en múltiples lenguas, un canal de vida que conecta nuevas tierras, nuevas islas donde los escritores y la vida diaria y complicada de los distintos lares son objeto de reconocimiento para este gran viajero poeta que como los grandes exploradores de la historia de la humanidad va coleccionando de cada comunidad con la que él ha interactuado, palabras, lenguajes poéticos, autores, nombres de ciudades, alegrías y tristezas, la esencia misma de sentirse un humano universal como lo fue a su manera el mismo Walt Whitman que colocó a la poesía de los Estados Unidos de América en el plano mundial, pero además en el cariño y admiración de su pueblo, el estadounidense, algo que para un poeta activista como Indran Amirthanayagam es de una urgencia vital para su escritura, para su itinerario metafórico.</div>
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Antes de entrar a las distintas secciones de este viaje que es <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Migrant States</em>, se incluyen dos poemas liminares, que son dos artes poéticas que generan una dinámica dialéctica entre ambas y a partir de la cual, el lector puede sumergirse en el mundo o la isla del lenguaje de la voz poética. Así “Mind Breathing” presenta en verso estrófico diferentes motivos de la poesía de Indran, la importancia de la lectura, la presencia de una figura señera de las letras locales o universales — que hace las veces de voz autorizada o figura paterna que permite al poeta fluir en esa persecución de la palabra poética como si se tratara de una cacería o un safari de significantes — un momento histórico destacado en la biografía del autor, la reflexión sobre la poesía misma y los detalles mundanos de la vida:</div>
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<span data-offset-key="8utoa-0-0" style="box-sizing: border-box;">a few blocks from our residence in Colombo.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="129di-0-0" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Allen brought a harmonium as a carry-on music box</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="9k48l-0-0" style="box-sizing: border-box;">on his flight to Oahu. Back then nobody examined</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="b7f7v-0-0" style="box-sizing: border-box;">strings for chemical traces, death marches, laments. (1)</span></div>
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En “This No Time for Criticism” el otro arte poética liminar, carente de organización estrófica, el sujeto poético autoexamina, autoevalúa la calidad de sus versos, testimonia los acontecimientos históricos del ultimo año y cómo su voz o escritura genera una sinergia con esa historia particular del mundo, para validar así su tono poético dentro del campo cultural. La voz del poeta, en este sentido, se reproduce de una manera muy distinta a otras voces con las que cohabita en la galaxia <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Gutemberg </em>de las letras:</div>
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<span data-offset-key="c1int-0-0" style="box-sizing: border-box;">I realize my lines are not lyrical. They have no surprising leaps,</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="akfq8-0-0" style="box-sizing: border-box;">or rhythmic epiphanies. They are flat, a body shot on the street</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="agheq-0-0" style="box-sizing: border-box;">visited by paramedics, wailing young men and women. We do</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="ee4o0-0-0" style="box-sizing: border-box;">not discriminate in 2019. We are witnessing birth of a revolt,</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="9gnv6-0-0" style="box-sizing: border-box;">a rejection, and you say my verse is agitprop, an unfit exercise</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="37dtq-0-0" style="box-sizing: border-box;">for poetry. I reply writing, that the body must be buried with dignity, (2)</span></div>
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Luego, el libro empieza, propiamente dicho, con la sección <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">For Walt</em>, título también de una sección intermedia y de la sección final que cierra el viaje por <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Migrant States</em>. ¿Qué comparten Whitman y Amirthanayagam? Pues, una isla con una matriz multicultural, una poesía que huye del hermetismo, que tiene una calidad de activismo hasta erguirse como un ethos nacional — <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Leaves of Grass</em> y <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Migrant States</em> se hermanan a pesar de los siglos de diferencias como libros y poéticas que proponen una gran narrativa nacional — con firmes implicancias populares o que convocan al pueblo como referente o actante, cofundador y gobernante en la isla-nación poética. Así se afirma en Stop by: “I am in your debt, Walt, and to all the poets who gave birth to you and to those / you have sired in turn. Thank you. The word is good and in our hands now” (5). El nacimiento en la isla es el punto de inicio del viaje de los poetas, así sucede con Walt y con Indran, pero además ambas islas se funden generosas en el té que producen, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Ceylon Tea</em> y el también famoso y espirituoso <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Long Island Iced Tea</em>. De este modo, en “After Midnight” la voz poética afirma:</div>
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<span data-offset-key="c1int-0-0" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Walter Whitman will come out of his mother’s ninth month midnight</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="8d545-0-0" style="box-sizing: border-box;">tomorrow, the 31st of May, in the family room, at the Walter Whitman</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="fn2ai-0-0" style="box-sizing: border-box;">home in West Hills, Huntington, Long Island, to be known henceforth</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="b230t-0-0" style="box-sizing: border-box;">in all poetry as Paumanok, the birth island of the poet who at eleven (5)</span></div>
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El viaje por <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Migrant States</em> continúa con la sección titulada <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Curtain Call</em> que, de acuerdo a los temas tratados y desarrollados en los diferentes poemas, se establece como un <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Bildungsroman</em> de versos que abarcan el período de formación estética de la voz de los poemas, la misma que fluye en sus continuas migraciones de lengua en lengua, de país en país, buscando su propia voz, su propia isla-nación de poetas. De esta forma, se desarrolla en “Curtain Call”:</div>
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<span data-offset-key="c1int-0-0" style="box-sizing: border-box;">When you please, make the reader laugh, lighten</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="brekj-0-0" style="box-sizing: border-box;">the baggage he carries around home, street and</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="4j40c-0-0" style="box-sizing: border-box;">office, you reach the first level of enlightenment,</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="3b9pt-0-0" style="box-sizing: border-box;">then you pause, consulting the poets along</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="col71-0-0" style="box-sizing: border-box;">the way. Yeats wrote what then, Cavafy offered</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="6ts38-0-0" style="box-sizing: border-box;">that you cannot escape the city in which</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="er2nr-0-0" style="box-sizing: border-box;">you were born, Nazim dreamed of a straw blonde,</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="6m315-0-0" style="box-sizing: border-box;">a night train across Europe, poplars falling</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="9r67g-0-0" style="box-sizing: border-box;">in the Turkey from which he remained in exile.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="1og4s-0-0" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Exile is the modern condition, Ceylon felled (22)</span></div>
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Luego el lector llega a la sección titulada <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">La Voix du Port</em> con Haití como protagonista de esta travesía migrante de versos y sentires. Haití cala hondo en el sentir poético de Indran, su Ceilán natal y Haití comparten mucho, un pasado colonial, una actualidad compleja, al mismo tiempo, un sentir cultural intenso, propio de los habitantes de una isla. Así explora esas vivencias el hablante en el poema “We Are Spirit. We Are King.”:</div>
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<span data-offset-key="c1int-0-0" style="box-sizing: border-box;">You cannot deny my identity.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="fsm1b-0-0" style="box-sizing: border-box;">I am there even if I am not there.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="e1rk6-0-0" style="box-sizing: border-box;">I am in your head, in the memory</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="sgg5-0-0" style="box-sizing: border-box;">of the country. Even if you have</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="fumlj-0-0" style="box-sizing: border-box;">never met me I am there because</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="butj3-0-0" style="box-sizing: border-box;">my Sri Lankan brothers</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="2h6ku-0-0" style="box-sizing: border-box;">served on the island</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="3f9e9-0-0" style="box-sizing: border-box;">as UN Peacekeepers. You know</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="fvikh-0-0" style="box-sizing: border-box;">the whole world came to Haiti</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="8k9n6-0-0" style="box-sizing: border-box;">to save us from the gangs?</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="533d6-0-0" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The island is very important,</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="bcbft-0-0" style="box-sizing: border-box;">a responsibility of foreign countries.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="8pq1u-0-0" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Once, we produced profits</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="7ugb8-0-0" style="box-sizing: border-box;">greater than the 13 British</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="4rgng-0-0" style="box-sizing: border-box;">colonies in America. (33)</span></div>
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Nuevamente aparece en nuestro viaje por <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Migrant States</em>, una sección llamada <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">For Walt</em>, el gran <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">leitmotif </em>de este libro, el legado poético de Whitman y su pasado isleño representado en esa dualidad que es el territorio conocido como Long Island-Paumanok. En el poema “Setting Off” que es sinónimo de empezar un viaje, la voz poética da como una ofrenda sagrada sus versos al gran Dios de la poesía de los Estados Unidos de América, para que — así como se hace con el ídolo de Lord Ganesha que es internada en las aguas del Mar Arábigo para su Chaturthi, o fiesta de cumpleaños — esa otra divinidad que es el poeta de Camden, New Jersey, bendiga la travesía del migrante devoto, le concede la prosperidad — el <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Artha</em> — en este caso literaria, al acercarse con sus ofrendas de versos sinceros y de prístina emoción, tal es el sentir de los versos tamiles de Indran:</div>
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<span data-offset-key="c1int-0-0" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Walt explodes on impact in the mind. Nothing becomes everything,</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="dmmal-0-0" style="box-sizing: border-box;">everything nothing,</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="9fs3e-0-0" style="box-sizing: border-box;">the equation turned inside out: poems, democratic practice, phrenology,</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="6ek60-0-0" style="box-sizing: border-box;">the discovery</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="f56ge-0-0" style="box-sizing: border-box;">of India. There is no pebble from under which Walt does not peep out. I</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="ai9hf-0-0" style="box-sizing: border-box;">fell in love</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="3phv3-0-0" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Turnpike. (39)</span></div>
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Posteriormente se llega a la sección central que da nombre a todo el conjunto, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Migrant States</em>. Aquí la voz poética explora las complejidades del ser estadounidense, aparece nuevamente la patria pérdida, la isla de Ceilán, y también Sudamérica, Lima y la selva del Perú. Como lo he señalado anteriormente, ser estadounidense significa — de acuerdo a lo que plantea el sujeto de estos poemas — sentirse de todas partes del mundo, sentirse un poco haitiano, un poco tamil, un poco peruano, un poco de New Jersey, ese es el verdadero <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Melting Pot</em> al que apunta la esencia de estos versos poderosos e inspiradores, ser estadounidense, finalmente, es llevar todo el mundo consigo mismo. En el poema “Lima, January” se logra retratar al detalle la atmósfera de ese espacio llamado Lima, durante un día de verano en enero, ese espacio que bien podría ser un barrio de New Jersey que el hablante desconoce, como para mí era Boston cuando vivía allí, un barrio de Lima que nunca se había explorado, es que el mundo es nuestra casa y ésa es la característica de estos versos que nos aproximan a esos territorios, a esas ciudades que habitan en nuestro corazón migrante:</div>
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<span data-offset-key="9jqv6-0-0" style="box-sizing: border-box;">hot for the moment,</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="6g4cg-0-0" style="box-sizing: border-box;">plantain tree bearing fruit</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="f7l4c-0-0" style="box-sizing: border-box;">mango in the shops, a lot</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="65itf-0-0" style="box-sizing: border-box;">of fish, the country blessed</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="66sbe-0-0" style="box-sizing: border-box;">to feed up the food chain (63)</span></div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Departures</em> es la sección que nos anuncia que el viaje está llegando a su fin, es un momento para rendir un sentido homenaje con los versos a los que se fueron, incluyendo la figura señera del padre del poeta, también sirve para comentar las partidas del migrante a otro país, a otra ciudad por devorar literariamente con la vista, con la escritura, con el canto, con la palabra. <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Migrant States </em>es una ciudad poética, constituye un <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Aleph </em>de todos los tiempos, todas las anécdotas, todos los saberes donde finalmente nos asombramos de estar mirando nuestro propio rostro, tal como ocurrió con madre Yashoda cuando encontró el <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Aleph</em> en la boca de su amado niño, Krishna Vasudeva. Los versos del poema “Summer, Chess (for Anandan)” expresan con sencillez y virtuosismo el vivir en la pérdida y en la partida, esa dialéctica propia del ser y el sentir migrante que, en este caso espécifico, ha encontrado un hogar en esa constante reproducción de sentido de la palabra sencilla:</div>
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<span data-offset-key="csn9j-0-0" style="box-sizing: border-box;">into late summer</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="1jqp4-0-0" style="box-sizing: border-box;">and autumn until we meet</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="c7sg3-0-0" style="box-sizing: border-box;">smack our memories (77)</span></div>
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La lectura del libro concluye con la tercera sección titulada <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">For Walt</em>. En el inicio era Walt, en el final sigue siendo Walt. Esta vez, el último homenaje ritual busca que la voz poética consiga la bendición y la autorización para salir de la isla, que es una metáfora para referirse al maravilloso mundo de la imaginación poética en la que habita el hablante y que tiene por nombre Paumanok, pero que bien podría llamarse Ceilán, pero jamás Sri Lanka. Así los versos de “Gone from Paumanok” inciden en la tradición poética en la que se inspira el hablante de los poemas de <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Migrant States</em>, en las palabras y la vida sencilla, en suma, una estética familiar y, al mismo tiempo, rebelde y contestataria, llena de mucha humanidad y de un sentir isleño particular:</div>
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<span data-offset-key="c1int-0-0" style="box-sizing: border-box;">I feel I must end with a bang, at least a shake and a whistle,</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="nb8q-0-0" style="box-sizing: border-box;">full stop. I am not sure if I can go on like the sea, ridden</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="7sahv-0-0" style="box-sizing: border-box;">or some rubbish from a failed satellite. I am not after all</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="fgq70-0-0" style="box-sizing: border-box;">a celestial body, or a golden sunflower, just a fifty-eightyear-</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="7h031-0-0" style="box-sizing: border-box;">old man a few hundred miles from Paumanok</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="9c7r1-0-0" style="box-sizing: border-box;">and stopped—owing to family ties, to work and the need</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="fs1au-0-0" style="box-sizing: border-box;">to build a house, high enough to avoid the rain when it floods. (79)</span></div>
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Para culminar puedo afirmar que <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Migrant States</em> se nos presenta como un app, una aplicación o una tecnología de la migración que nos invita a ejecutar un nuevo pacto con las tierras que habitamos, reconociendo el valor de las diferentes lenguas, comunidades y culturas que pueblan un territorio. <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Migrant States</em> nos propone un nuevo pacto para salir de la simulación llamada <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Melting Pot</em> que no buscaba el generoso encuentro o la valorización de las múltiples lenguas y tradiciones en los Estados Unidos de América, sino, su respectiva asimilación, su desaparición en una supuesta nación multicultural, constituida para y por el interés de las élites que respondían a un sino caucásico, sobre todo. De esta manera, las diversidades debían ser absorbidas o sacrificadas. <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Migrant States</em> es un app o tecnología que propone exactamente lo contrario: el canto, en constante migración o movimiento, que incorpora múltiples lenguas, tradiciones, autores, objetos; evitando precisamente su asimilación y celebrando su alegre y necesaria diferencia. Por eso mismo, considero imperativa la lectura de <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Migrant States</em> en las escuelas secundarias y en las universidades de los Estados Unidos de América para que las nuevas generaciones reflexionen y estudien la importancia de la migración como un estado de vida esencial para la especie humana como lo ha sido desde hace miles de años.</div>
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Indran Amirthanayagamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03466735948060961996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4604466456384458136.post-56926644396998036172020-06-26T17:33:00.002-07:002020-06-26T17:35:02.092-07:00Too Much<br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Too Much</b></span></div>
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I don't think anyone has ever written a
book about this,</div>
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he tells me, tongue in jowl, but I
suspend my disbelief</div>
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just long enough falling completely
before the joke</div>
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then smiling widely and on all sides of
my face</div>
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and the subject. So, yes I am writing a
book about love.
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I wrote before about a tsunami and an
uncivil war. Now
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I write not quite about a tsunami
although sadness hits
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like a wall of water and I have visited
black, bottomless
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pits and the edges of ponds that seem
like rousing rivers
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roaring to a nearby precipitous drop.
And I have felt
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slings like teargas canisters fogging
my eyes and head
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as I swig a tumbler of whiskey and peer
at the midnight
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screen imagining the street scene near
the White House,
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citizens protesting against murder of
black brothers
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and sisters as I think of my island
love whose heart
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is no longer open to nostalgias of the
past once
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it decided that geography, a couple of
bodies of water,
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an ocean, and the gulf of age, were
too much.
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Indran Amirthanayagam, c) June 17,
2020
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<br />Indran Amirthanayagamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03466735948060961996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4604466456384458136.post-41643601879307549612020-06-10T13:15:00.001-07:002020-06-10T13:15:12.299-07:00Black, A Poem. Indran <br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Black</b></span></div>
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Black Lives Matter. Your life matters.
Black Lives
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Matter. The Mad Hatter's Life Matters.
And his right
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to change his name, to wipe the mad
prejudice
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out of words matters. Black Lives
Matter. My life
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matters. Black Lives Matter. All lives
matter. Black
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Lives Matter. The squirrel's life
matters. Black Lives
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Matter. The elephants eat bamboo, and
babies gather
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round their mothers, and there are no
electric fences
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or shot guns and there is earth to roam
and there are</div>
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paths to forge. Black Lives Matter. The
police chief,
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senator, assemblyman, garbage
collector, teacher
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and poet and all other professions and
creatures</div>
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on all arks of the world join the march
along
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16<sup>th</sup> Street in Washington
D.C. beside giant
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yellow letters shouting Black Lives
Matter.</div>
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Indran Amirthanayagam, c) June 10,
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<br />Indran Amirthanayagamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03466735948060961996noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4604466456384458136.post-5421178393937740132019-02-14T18:59:00.001-08:002019-02-14T18:59:31.594-08:00Otra Iglesia Es Imposible: Indran Amirthanayagam / Contra la ilusión<a href="https://campodemaniobras.blogspot.com/2019/02/indran-amirthanayagam-contra-la-ilusion.html?spref=bl">Otra Iglesia Es Imposible: Indran Amirthanayagam / Contra la ilusión</a>: Hay una distracción al parecer, un puesto de atención a alguna nueva mariposa. Pero ya no soy un mozo. Ya no tengo gana...Indran Amirthanayagamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03466735948060961996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4604466456384458136.post-52977739745299269192018-10-23T20:22:00.001-07:002018-10-23T20:29:48.440-07:00On the International Day of the Diplomat (Sobre el Dia Internacional del Diplomático)<br />
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the International Day of the Diplomat, October 24, 2018</b></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Sobre
el Dia Internacional del Diplomático, 24 de Octubre, 2018</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Encienda
una vela el 24 de Octubre para honrar el Día Internacional del
Diplomático. Coincide con el Dia de las Naciones Unidas, y un día despu</span></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "segoe ui";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">é</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">s
del aniversario del natalicio de mi padre que se fue hace 15 años.
Era mi primer diplomático y poeta. Somos muchos a través del globo,
representando a nuestros pueblos y culturas, llevando mensajes,
suavizando sentimientos de pena y olvido, asegurando que el comercio
siga de pie, negociando la paz después de años de guerra. Algunos
entre nosotros son vestidos de smoking, sí, y comemos bocadillos en
los cocteles, y otros en ropa de calle, escondidos, ayudan a
encontrar a los asesinos de nuestros ciudadanos en países
extranjeros. Suscribimos también la Declaración Universal de los
Derechos Humanos y trabajamos en algunos casos bajo cielos hostiles
donde nuestros papeles como representantes nos hace un blanco para
quienes quieren destruir los lazos que nos unen a todos. Somos un
mundo y una comunidad humana con una variedad deslumbrante, profunda
y particular a cada uno, de la f</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "segoe ui";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">é</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
en Dios, Mujer u Hombre, en las libertades de expresión y de
asamblea, el derecho de enterrar a nuestros muertos con dignidad y de
dar la bienvenida a los nuevos miembros de la familia con pompa y
honor.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Honremos
a los ciudadanos de países que dan la bienvenida al viajero, al
visitante, al residente a la vez temporal y permanente, este
diplomático que comparte pan con ellos por dos, tres, cuatro o cinco
años antes de abordar un avión, un auto, o a</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "segoe ui";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">ú</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">n
un barco para irse. Llevamos nuestro pasado, presente y futuro en los
momentos de llegada y partida. Y hoy pedimos a cada miembro de la
familia humana, a</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "segoe ui";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">ú</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">n
si no tiene un carnet del ministerio de asuntos extranjeros de su
país, a levantar la copa en favor de la paz, de respetar las
culturas del anfitrión y visitante. En Haiti, uno recibe al recién llegado diciendo onè, y él o ella responde respe.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Así</span><span style="color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> que por favor honrar a su vecino, y él responderá, le respeto. Y
si, suscribimos el principio de no meternos en los asuntos internos
de los estados soberanos. Al mismo tiempo decimos que hay respeto y
honor para la dignidad de cada residente de la tierra, y eso es
transversal, y salta los límites impuestos por el seguimiento de
aquel principio. Somos una comunidad y tenemos que afrontar la música
y hacer música también. Hemos desarrollado maneras de resolver
disputas. La diplomacia es clave para estos métodos alternativos y
necesarios además de los tribunales tradicionales. Trabajamos detrás
de la pantalla para asegurar que la rueda de vueltas tray<span style="font-family: "segoe ui";">é</span>ndonos,
nuestras ideas y culturas, al otro lado de las fronteras, hacia la
luz, hacia lo nuevo.</span></span></span></div>
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Amirthanayagam, October 24, 2018.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Light
a candle on October 24</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><sup><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">th</span></span></span></span></sup></span><span style="color: #222222;"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span></span></sup></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">for
the International Day of the Diplomat. It falls on United Nations
Day, and one day after the birth anniversary of my father who passed
15 years ago. He was my first diplomat and poet. We are many
throughout the globe, representing our peoples and cultures, passing
messages, assuaging feelings of hurt and neglect, assuring that
commerce continues to come and go, negotiating peace after years of
war. Some of us are dressed in tails yes, and we even eat canapes at
receptions, while others in plain clothes help find killers of our
citizens in foreign lands. We also subscribe to the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights and we work sometimes in hostile climes
where our status as representative makes us a target for those who
wish to break down the ties that bind all of us. We are one world and
one human community with an amazing variety and depth and
particularity of faith in God or Woman or Man, in freedoms of speech
and assembly, the right to bury our dead with dignity and to welcome
the new members of the family with pomp and honor.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Let
us honor the citizens of countries who welcome the traveller, the
visitor, and the temporary yet permanent resident who is the
diplomat, breaking bread with them, for two, three, four or five
years, then boarding a plane, a car, or even a ship to leave. We
carry the past, the present and future in the moment of arrival and
departure. And today we ask all members of the human family, even if
you do not have a carnet from the local Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
to raise your glass for peacemaking, for respecting the cultures of
host and visitor. In Haiti, one greets the arrival saying onè</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">and
he or she answers respe.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">So
honor your neighbor, and he or she will reply, I respect you. And
yes, we subscribe to the principle of non-interference in affairs of
sovereign states. At the same time we say there is a transversal,
cross-cutting honor and respect for the dignity of each resident on
the planet. So we are a community and we have to face the music and
make music as well. So we have developed ways</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">to
resolve disputes. Diplomacy is key to alternative and necessary
methods as well as the traditional courts. We work behind the scenes
to assure the wheel turns bringing ourselves, our ideas and cultures,
across border lines, into the light, into the new.</span></span></span></div>
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<br />Indran Amirthanayagamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03466735948060961996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4604466456384458136.post-46739088150626267762018-06-29T04:50:00.001-07:002018-06-29T04:50:02.933-07:00#LIDERESEMPRENDEDORES con Amirthanayagam<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rY75X_K2Hig" width="480"></iframe>Indran Amirthanayagamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03466735948060961996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4604466456384458136.post-1494636164476318462018-06-27T11:49:00.002-07:002018-06-27T11:55:41.308-07:00Reginald Paul, R.I.P.<br />
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