[Ppnews] From Antonio Guerrero - Happy New Year 2010

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Sun Dec 27 14:32:02 EST 2009


Dear friends,

With these two poems, I want to reiterate you 
that we, the Five, feel profoundly moved and 
grateful for the permanent solidarity that you 
give us, so crucial in this long battle for justice.


DOVES

A big explosion frightens

   A flock of harmless doves

As blinding smoke it mushrooms

   In startled skies above

The screams of sirens scattered

   Then saturate the air

While survivors stunned and listless

   Burrow everywhere


Deserted streets are ashened --

   Still pregnant with fresh fear

Only sanguinated thorns

   Remain in gardens near

Dead bodies grace the vista

   Souls walk groping in the fore

T'is a Dantesque scene

   Of senseless hate and war


Truth is, this all could happen

   In any urban space

As children leave from school...

   Just pick the time or place

Unmanifest Apocalypse

   In springtime comes unfurled

Spawned by wanton beasts whose unchecked greed

   Consumed the world

What will we Humans do

   Or the poets we endear,

If terrified, our doves abandon us

   For other spheres?



---  translated by Gregory James Cato

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THERE WILL BE MORE POETRY


There will be more poetry

   Because the Truth

Is like a giant wave

   Or a flying horse...


Because ascending over boundaries

   Of time and prison bars,

I can contemplate

   How a flower blooms,


Because far away

   My solitary pain

Can transform itself

   Into a bird, singing a song ...


Because I can still remember

   The perfume and color

Of that brief morning

   Of my last goodbye


Because to keep alive

   More than what God could make

It is important to me

   What you and I can make


Because as a whisper,

   As a volcano with a voice,

Inspiration within me

   Lifts, grows and burns ...


Because without freedom,

   I have something better ...

That agitates ideas

   From my soul to my heart

Something that in the struggle

   Of light and Truth

   Anoints me as the real Winner


I have what engenders real harmony

I have Love !


Together with you, we will continue until the 
final victory, which only will be reached with 
the return of us to our Homeland.

Greetings to all our friends, with a big fraternal embrace from the Five.

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2010! Best wishes. !VENCEREMOS!



Antonio Guerrero Rodríguez

December 23, 2009

FDC Miami



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