Edtih Lomovasky-Goel, Argentina, Israel
THE CESSATION OF HOSTILITIES
Seen and considering that the first letter I wrote in my life was directed
precisely the embassy of India in the capital
still my son just now
the unavoidable participant
that Russian roulette is played in the region
recent developments in the Asia Minor and it
more
far beyond the lyrics,
a discourse analysis,
the foolishness of this or that media campaign
Having my son
stayed in tents, on the same grid
just reeling
that Kassam
few days after - when she was in the Air Technical College
in the far north of this territory -
And as a result of the harrowing events that occur
tirelessly
without any editorial comment
achieve
corroborate the faith of the prayers I prefer
illustrate
now these words with drawings in graphite
black tempera or perhaps inspired
human figures in the foreground
taken from National Geographic 23 years ago.
It's amazing how the photos of National Geographic
23 years ago are so similar to today
these photos have become a genre
repeated endlessly:
faces of the homeless, survivors of a tsunami
another tsunami
another tsunami
a volcano
a minefield
an earthquake in the African-Syrian axis
an announced Bosnia
when nobody even appointed a guerrilla war
boys of ten years with rifles
shaggy-haired girls accusing look
(without falling into pathos
CNN)
Yet this does not mean that compassion
there that love does not exist or that future
best be only an illusion.
Because despite all the packaging for
Lady Godiva chocolates arouse
pleasure.
The wrap accounts
newspaper
involving the basilicum basil
or smell of incense in Orthodox churches
buffeted by these monks underground
intense gaze.
I mean clearly that - as well as a cockroach than terrestrial disasters and armed
changing what is necessary to survive - there
hostility was lounging in the photos,
the wrath of neighbors
in the curvature of the sand,
on the palms of spiteful relatives ,
in the embrace of bad losers
Now that my children are fighting for their present and future in the far north of this land and I'm
quietly alone
I am obliged to appoint
and illustrate these blades
and the question always
after bailout. I want to register
this and other questions in the remainder of these three long years
of service to the country. I also serve
seeing from here all so clear
and unusual.
Here I
to see what will come
the platforms
and decipher what is hidden under the sleepers
and rows. __________________
Lomovasky-
Edith Goel. - I was born in Argentina in 1952 and emigrated to Israel in 1972. - A graduate in English Literature from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Linguistics Master of Education Levinsky Teacher Institute. - Professor of English Language and Literature. - Essayist and research of biography, literature and gender. - Poetry, literary translator, active illustrator and artist. - Author of twelve books of poetry in English, appearing on the web and e-books: Mediterranean Body (2007), Zona (2009), Whereabouts (2011), Review of love (2006), Tribute to the ephemeral calligraphy (2010) , Rivers and shadows (2008), Body Art (2005) Monologue in the sand (2002), Pause (2010), Embracing the Goddess (2004), Book of Hours distant (2003), Mobilization (2009) and Full Dance (2011), unpublished. - Award-winning Widely published, anthologized and translated. - I am the proud mother of Jonathan, age 21 and Danielle, 27.
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