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

[Anny Ballardini]

Anny says she thanks you for having thanked her, well yes, more or less
something like that.

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 8:17 PM, <jforjames at aol.com> wrote:

> Thanks, Anny, I tell the guy who wrote it that you liked it. I know him
> pretty well. In fact I saw him just this morning while shaving.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anny Ballardini <anny.ballardini at gmail.com>
> Sent: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 1:36 pm
> Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] WorldPo: Rahman Baba, militants blew up his
> shrine in Pakistan
>
> A great poem, is this yours?
>
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 2:07 AM, <jforjames at aol.com <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 no tice. A leaf swept along
>> with the current is my ear, hears
>> my laughter in water that was once ice.
>>
>>
>> Message-----
>> From: jforjames at aol.com
>> To: new-poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu
>> 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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I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing
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