Wednesday, August 1, 2018

GEORGE ONSY



GEORGE ONSY

TO ALL DEAR POETESSES
ROUND THE WORLD

When a woman
Holds the pen
She doesn’t write
She just draws
Voiced smiles
On the face of a moon
Serene and bright

When a woman
Holds the pen
She embraces the words
From the remote
Corners of the world
Into her warm bosom
To melt into sentences
Where meanings love to
Come into being an’ blossom

When a woman
Holds the pen
She would give that
Ancient forbidden fruit
Yet, not to curse
Out of a paradise
Lost, stolen, or sold
Rather, to open our eyes
To explore the hidden
Territories of beauty untold.
© 2017 George Onsy





RAPE AND REAP!
A thundering cry against women’s Rape

Come on!
What are you waiting for?
The slow deaf justice
Has given you the green light
To rape one, two and even more
Waiting for you
To rape a whole nation that
It is supposed
To be caring for.

Rewarding your satanic desires
You may go on and on
And, again … on
Yet, let me tell you one last word:

As you rape so will you reap
Yes, you will reap all shades
Of sufferings unbearable
In your body of a predator
In your heart of stone
In your soul dormant
To wake up to a day
Of no dawn, of no peace
Fallen off Eternity.

There’s nothing separating
Your rape from that reap
But a period of time,
Many or only some
Days, weeks, months,
Or even long years
And all, all will never stop
Your unspeakable reap
That will inevitably come.
© 2018 George Onsy





MAYBE BUT SURELY
To a soulmate beyond place and time

Maybe
We have once met in the past
But surely
We will meet in the future
Maybe
Our life on earth will not last
But surely
We’ll live to rewrite the Scripture
Maybe
We are taken by desire an’ lust
But surely
We’ll make of man God’s best creature
For maybe
We were cast into moulds of dust
But surely
He can make of us a divine sculpture
Yes, maybe
We won’t get what we want so fast
But surely
Step by step we’ll walk the adventure
Maybe …
And MAYBE has never been a must
But SURELY
Is our hymn, language and culture.

© 2011
GEORGE ONSY

GEORGE ONSY, an Egyptian thinker, poet and artist, born in Cairo, Dec 21, 1953, lives in Cairo where he serves as a professor of English at The Egyptian-Russian University and teaches History of Art & Architecture at other academies. His outstanding works of poetry and art have been published in many printed anthologies, magazines and websites worldwide, particularly in India, Italy, Sicily, USA, and China. He has been awarded at many international cultural festivals in Italy, Ghana, India, and Nigeria invited by world leading literary organizations. As an active writer for peace, THE WORLD INSTITUTE FOR PEACE (WIP), Nigeria awarded him with ‘THE GLOBAL ICON OF PEACE’ Award, April 2017 and recently ‘THE MOST OUTSTANDING PEACE POET IN THE WORLD FOR 2017’ Award. Also THE WORLD NATIONS WRITERS UNION (WNWU), Kazakhstan has awarded him THE BEST POET FOR 2017. His paintings of mystical themes have been exhibited in USA, Canada, UK, France, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Ghana, India, Lebanon and Egypt. George is one of the International Directors of the WORLD UNION OF POETS (WUP), and is their World Contest Jury Member as also for Galaktika Poetike (Atunis), Belgium-USA, the Italian International Cultural Organization, VERBUMLANDIART and the Mexican World Contest 2017 as well as for Kazakhstan’s Poetry Contest 2017. He is at present an active admin for over 65 city groups for the WUP and for the international PENTASI B WORLD FRIENDSHIP POETRY. He is also an honorary member/advisor for some leading international literary organizations, like Kazakhstan’s WNWU, India’s SAHITA ANAND, TELANGATA POETRY FORUM and PHILOSPHIQUE D’ANAND as well as Canada’s WRITERS INTERNATIONAL NETWORK (WIN). “VOICES FROM ETERNITY”, a joint book of Onsy’s poems and artworks with the great Indian thinker and poet Dr. J. Anand’s works, was published by the POETRY SOCIETY OF INDIA in 2014. His second book, “Let’s be one in The ONE” featuring 108 of his poems and artworks has been published in New Delhi, 2017 by the founder of the same society, Dr. Madan Gandhi, the great Indian Nobel-Prize Nominee thinker and poet. The latest was a uniquely creative work under a short story form, “WITH Oscar Wilde” published as an ebook on the international website BOOKEMON 2018. His ‘Mystic’ is to be published soon as an ebook through the international Flipcart. George diligently tries to establish new effective approaches to peacemaking, applying his unprecedented visual modelling system for analyzing Conflict-Resolution/Problem-Solving of heated issues. He is going to apply this system for conflict-resolution TOT workshops under the Nigerian Authorities. The leading Facebook Page, AWAKENING-صحوة he founded 7 years ago is an active Arab-International Forum to face critical issues and other ultimate world challenges. With his pen and brush, he calls for a holistic awareness of our ‘Eternal existence in the Here and Now’. It is ‘The Everlasting Poetry of Daily Living’ that has united audiences of different religions in Egypt and many countries round the world. He extends this peacemaking mission through his ongoing work as a Board Member at THE MORAL REARMAMENT ASSOCIATION/INTIATIVES OF CHANGE (MRA/IofC)-Egypt of which the head office is a UN and EU Consultant. Having worked for many years as a film/art critic as well as an Art Director for some leading AD Agencies, he has been serving as a Media Advisor and Analyzer for satellite TVs. He currently analyzes and builds up media campaigns for peace awareness-raising as well as designing needed creative educational systems.



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