GEORGE ONSY
To Europe With Love– 2
Names for
Laocoon’s Sons
Europe dear,
Where’s your
ancient Greece’s
Wise man gone?
Have you ever his
two sons known?
If you don’t know
let me tell you:
One is FRANCE’s
Marat
The other
GERMANY’s Goethe
Both … both with
their father
Didn’t survive
the deadly serpents' bites
The first, the
Revolution’s martyr,
For his
patriotism
The second, for
challenging
Through his
‘Faust’ all devil’s pacts
Some think that
Trojan Horse
Is galloping over
the abyss between
Yesterday’s myth
and today’s facts.
Oh, if only
ENGLAND’s Shakespeare
Had sketched in
his plays any leader,
Somewhere between
his retired King Lear
And
imperialism-addicted Macbeth!
But as both are
now powerless penniless
In the
playwright’s inky graveyard,
Some may think
that foreseeing
Trojan Horse’s
reincarnation
Is not that hard
Wait! Let me try
to ask ITALY’s Dante
Who’s still busy
building an endless ladder
Between his
‘Inferno’ and ‘Paradiso’:
Have you
mentioned in your ‘Comedia’
A thousand and
one Troys
Where every
‘Laocoonian party’
Is condemned for
being too wise?
Some would ask:
But should Trojan Horse
Always be of such a massive size?
But at Dante’s
Paradise,
Though
unmentioned,
SPAIN’s Cervantes
Who had once been
trodden
By past horses
wild
Has been always
there
Ready to send his
Don Quixote
Who has taught
the whole world
How we should be
ridiculous in order
To secure our
crazy dreams
Thus, he finds no
shame to ride
That
ever-pregnant wooden horse
For whatever its
bowels would bring
There will be no
risk … yes …
Remember all
parties, all factions,
All unions, all
camps, all sects
That the past
plaguing horse
Had no rider, no
spur, no bridle
Today, to keep
peace alive, we should say:
Where there’s a
horse there is a horseman.
That what I’ve
guessed, dear Europe,
From your
Renaissance heroes’ works,
And that what a
coming-soon Renaissance
Of no arms but
only banners white
Will bloodlessly
put into action
So, let’s wait
for the Profphtic Knight!
GeorgeOnsy-Egypt©2021
On My 68th Birthday
Another BD has
come to burn
All the glory
I’ve gained
On the altar of
Yours
And here I’m
saying it again:
To BE is to cease
to be.
That’s the answer
to all questions.
Remember, Lord!
You once made me
SOMETHING
Out of NOTHING
Now, I wish to be
NOTHING
With my whole
being melting,
Yet, still
shining as it disappears
Into Your
Everlasting Light.
GeorgeOnsy-Egypt©2021
To My Torturer With Love …
O you, who I’ve
given
All my life to,
Are you still my
‘YOU’?!
Whenever you hit
me,
Just know one
thing,
I wish you had
done it
With a whip of
fire
But not … not
with
My bleeding heart
That only your
love
And care would
desire.
O you, who once
Was my only
‘YOU’,
Just keep in mind
That a day will
come
When this very
heart
Will bleed tears
At your bed of
illness
When your
fist
of oppression is
nothing
But a supplicant
hand.
Yes, this very
heart
Will have no more
fears
At your gloomy
tomb
When your arm of
violence
Covered with rust
Will find nothing
to hold
But a cold
hug-full
Of lifeless dust.
GeorgeOnsy-Egypt©copyright2020
GEORGE ONSY
GEORGE ONSY (b. 1953) is an Egyptian thinker, poet and artist,
and a Professor of English and Art-architecture History at The Egyptian-Russian
University and other academies in Cairo. His outstanding works of poetry and
art calling for a universal unifying spirituality have been published in
several international printed anthologies, magazines, and e-zines. He is a
recipient of several awards notably "The Global Icon of Peace Award”-2017
and “The Most Outstanding Peace Poet in 2017”-2018 (Nigeria) and “The Best Poet
Award”-2017 (World Nation Writers Union, Kazakhstan). Having been awarded for
Literary Excellency in 2020, he was appointed a National President of the
Hispanic International Writers’ Union (UHE) for Egypt and ambassador for 5
other international cultural organizations. He is at present the
Egypt-President for the GLOBAL PEACE COUNCIL for Human Rights and
Anti-corruption-UK/India.
No comments :
Post a Comment