[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
Freedom Archives
522 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
415 863-9977
www.Freedomarchives.org
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