[New-Poetry] WorldPo: Rahman Baba, militants blew up his shrine in Pakistan

[Anny Ballardini]

A great poem, is this yours?

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 2:07 AM, <jforjames at aol.com> wrote:

> This story reminded me of an old poem...
>
>
> Buddha Blasted to Bits
>
>
> The Taliban are a misguided lot, it’s true.
> But what is this hue and cry I hear?
> This monument is you and not me.
> Did I ask to be carved into a cliffside,
> a huge edifice with a sky for a mirror.
> The drills trepanning my bald cranium,
>
> the nitro and black powder poured
> into the slots. Blasting caps primed,
> I’m ready to be blown away. I’ve been waiting
> for the wind and sand to do as much,
> the same work, only so slowly.
>
> You forget, I’ve seen stars explode.
> That rounded stone in the mountain stream
> is my eye. Blind only to those who
> don’t notice. A leaf swept along
> with the current is my ear, hears
> my laughter in water that was once ice.
>
>
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> From: jforjames at aol.com
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> Sent: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 7:10 pm
> Subject: [New-Poetry] WorldPo: Rahman Baba, militants blew up his shrine in
> Pakistan
>
>  http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2009/03/a-poets-shrine.html
>
> I had never heard of Rahman Baba before militants blew up his shrine in
> Pakistan a few days ago. I now know that he is a beloved Pashto mystic and
> poet. He lived in t he seventeenth century and, legend has it, wept so
> profusely that there were wounds on his cheeks.
>
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Anny Ballardini
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I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing
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