Blind
Slaughterhouses with towers are called castles We send sheep in battalions followed by wailing ambulances As the sun it shines high and bright in a cold blue sky Stray clouds spread veils of transparency over the universe’s nudity And a dark wall stands tall between the dream and reality To blind the naked eye of […]
The colors have gone blind but they still burn our eyes We grope for the light and run our fingers on a burning switch But the light will not shine until the dark settles in our minds The black is the other white, the black is black Star studded commandos walk down the Hill Are […]
In spite of the paint and the powder, motions are visible on every face Rocking the blues away with an anonymous partner all painted blue The many levels of joy and the shadows of pain instantly readable and changing Like a storm rolling fast, the crowd runs blind following the Pied Piper At the end […]
Love at first sight explains why love is blind Inflatable love is as eternal as hydrogen in a pink Zeppelin Maybe they should use helium, the laughing gas Impervious to the grey crowd floating in the street Two lovers kiss hiding behind a giant heart-shaped pink balloon Love is forever, love is tomorrows, like pancakes […]
A rush of pastel colours, a pink world of red onions and assorted dresses Such a profusion of beauty that it draws a tear to your eye Onion and tomato are the main fresh vegetable crops in Niger The same market scene has been unfolding for hundreds of years, unchanged This is the day of […]
Santa Fe, the legendary pueblo city in New Mexico The land of the Hopi, The Navajos, and the Pueblo Indians And many others who later came from the North The Hopi, chose their name as the peaceful little ones (of Aztec origin) Driven into reservations in neighbouring Arizona While their land was stolen by the […]
The human walking stick and white cane in a world of endemic blindness The flight of the blackfly spreads its shadow over the eyes of the unawares You may escape the dangers of the killer parasites, lest cataract catches up in your old days Many other causes may lead to blindness, but social bonding will […]
A blind building with blue eyes, under a blue sky Rain will fall to make the tears drop from the eyes The ditch is shallow and deep altogether It is a furrow where an invisible hand sows the clouds They will grow like the bean stalk and drown in the blue Upside down Hugh Ardoin […]
Evening comes with a flock of clouds, the lottery booth is now closed Your chances of an overnight fortune are now waning behind a closed awning There is a frontier on the very road you tread between the tarmac and the dust Some tangible difference in a world torn apart between two lifestyles On the […]
Scrambling to leave some hostile shores or impending doom People are no more than distant shapes hurrying away before the incoming storm The train is just like a spaceship ready to leave a long rocket launcher that will position our living modes into a vertical lift-off Departures bear the sweet and sour taste of exoduses […]