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By wt
07 June 2008


He sits, alone
While the morning beside him whispers
And the flowering orchards dance
To the melody of the minaret

For the light’s rays had pierced through
And the fluttering at the heart of his breast
Sparkles in two pearls,
Like the wolf giving away nothing

Images still
Like the butterfly, the millipede
The earth, his earth, his blood
His resolve

Would you shed your illusions?
To enter through the mesh into the stillness
Would you accept nothing and embrace it all?
To spill blood and drink of its glory

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Really like this one, wt
Written by Veronica_Milvus (704 comments posted) 7th June 2008
First stanza is a stunner, sets the scene beautifully. Can you say a bit more about what's going on in the second? I read the "two pearls" as if his heart is split beteen two resolves, two ideals, maybe a true religion and the desire for bloody glory that appears in the last line? 
 
And he enters into the mosque, presumably? 
 
A would-be suicide bomber? 
 
If so, the beautiful images of the first stanza are seriously subverted. Lovely poem. 
 
V
Veronica
Written by wt (137 comments posted) 7th June 2008
 
Thanks for your kind review, 
 
Actually this follows on my last work on Lebanon's strife... 
 
The situation here now is still tense and uncertain... 
This pictures a Shiite 'soldier' in South Lebanon contemplating the ocean from a hill... he is at home on his land... he awakens happy as the morning's sun rays spark a fluttering, a sense of bliss resonating throughout his body and this is reflected in his eyes "the two pearls". (like a wolf, he is a stranger, you don't know him) 
 
Stanza 3 is Love of the land, where he is rooted, and which he is resolved to defend (Israel 2006) 
 
The last stanza is to show that beyond the illusions that often have a hold on us, there is a reality that we are often ignorant of, and were we able to shed the illusions would we embrace and accept war (suffering....) as we do? 
 
Best 
Wt 
 
 
 
 

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