These are Words

Hung by the Neck

https://www.globalrights.info/2019/12/these-are-words-hung-by-the-neck/

 Here are words

must have been

hung

by the neck,

beaten

tarred and feathered

scandalised,

force-fed on hunger strike

against

the dumb motherfucking

stupidity of humans...

https://www.dirittiglobali.it/2019/12/these-are-words-hung-by-the-neck/ 

 

Poem at the End

https://peaceinkurdistancampaign.com/2020/05/01/poem-at-the-end-by-seamas-carraher/

http://www.thedreamingmachine.com/poem-at-the-end-by-seamas-carraher/

"Watching the news now

i know i will surely die

in a cold warehouse

erected by army engineers

on wasteground

between my place of work

and my own bedroom..."

 

April 27, 2020. 

November, Like a Hole in the Heart

Global Rights - For a Culture of Liberation

 

Gramsci, my sad man, we have told each other this,

to encourage the others,

as we pass in dark and sealed off streets,

our collars raised with this new flag

half knowing the dark route

we are

going anyway.

Lest we forget.

 

“THE MURDERERS INDICTED”

Murdered by schoolmasters: the shape of

geometry, our geography,

the art of bodies, their growth and biology,

both scrambled and unscrambling.

On January 9th, 2013, Sakine Cansiz (Sara), Kurdistan National Congress (KNK) Paris Representative Fidan Doğan (Rojbin), and Leyla Şaylemez (Ronahî), an organizer for the PKK’s youth movement,  were shot dead in their Paris office.

  
So we remember…

https://www.globalrights.info/2020/01/the-murderers-indicted/

https://www.dirittiglobali.it/2020/01/the-murderers-indicted/ 

Murdered by schoolmasters

(with tongues twisted and ears deafened):

cultivation, the lives of animals, the

eloquence and statesmanship of trees,

the secrecy of secrets, their mystery,

this language we lost,

(more tongues tormented by schoolmasters)

and this mouth that lost it,

and loss, left now in its abandoning

and in its place,

left decent and desperate, survivors.

The Need for an Angel

"The road empty but for leaves and the debris the storm had abandoned that no one had bothered to clear…"

 The Need for an Angel, by Séamas Carraher

"...For all these dull dead men in their grey suits whose whips beat us senseless there is an angel to wake us, before dawn, between one footfall here and the next, before day breaks, on these damp drunk tram tracks heading towards winter walking head bent to the sound the song the voice of free men and free women whose hearts and dreams are the lungs of the world

We will be free!"

Leaving Brosna – Five ‘Love’ Poems by Séamas Carraher

The rain won’t stop
though it may dance its hunger
a foot above the fields
at the now-cold-dark of daybreak...

Leaving Brosna – Five ‘Love’ Poems by Séamas Carraher

These cows don’t give a shit, either,
and the train, this fucking train,
like all trains in our leaving
partly Jewish in its heritage,
but Irish too in
its numb statement
that nothing matters...

...merely one more anonymous me,
on his lonely way back
to work.

The Dreaming Machine - Out of bounds

For  Ahmet Altan – in a Turkish  prison

"These are the things they took away..."

https://www.globalrights.info/2019/11/for-ahmet-altan-in-a-turkish-prison/

Ahmet Hüsrev Altan, the Turkish writer and journalist, was rearrested on 12 November, 2019, just a week after his release from prison over alleged links to the failed 2016 coup. He had earlier been serving an aggravated life sentence in prison for the bizarre charges of “sending subliminal messages to coup conspirators” (via  a TV interview) on the eve of the July 2016 failed coup in Turkey.

“Wounds are so deep and painful in these countries that in order to clean those wounds you have to use your pen like a scalpel. We are forced to go outside literature and write directly political pieces. Writing becomes engulfed by politics.”   (Ahmet Altan, Times Literary Supplement)

Ahmet Altan released his memoir of his arrest and detention in March 2019: I Will Never See the World Again. In reality, his arrest at dawn, like that of his own father 45 years previously, is a result of his courageous criticism of the now-oppressive Erdoğan-AKP regime in Turkey as well his outspoken defense of the rights of Kurds, Armenians and ‘Free Speech’.

https://www.dirittiglobali.it/2019/11/for-ahmet-altan-in-a-turkish-prison/