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modern iranian poems

my hero

face at the bottom of the world

perhaps (maybe)

the diogenes sequence

where to store furs

i am and am not:
      fragments of rumi

already backwards

destiny and destination

the zen of no-enlightenment

a light in ruins

iraqi monologues

awaiting the barbarians

the smell of possibilities

the sexy jihad

ultimate leaves

rejoice in the dog

post-millennium maggot

the book of nothing

dispatches from the war against the world

albanian poems

french poems in honour of jean genet

the hells going on

suicide for non-beginners

book disease

foreground trouble

the transcendental hotel

cinema of the blind

lament of the earth mother

uranian poems

haikai by okami

haikai on the edge

black hole of your heart

jung's motel

leda and the swan

confession from belgrade

gloss on rilke's ninth duino elegy

jewels and shit: poems by rimbaud

villon's dialogue with his heart

vasko popa:
a shepherd of wolves ?

the rubaiyát of omar khayyám

genrikh sapgir:
an ironic mystic

the love of pierre de ronsard

imagepoem

 

TRANSLATIONS



BETWEEN POETRY AND PROSE

good riddance to mankind

400 revolutionary maxims

nice men and
  suicide of an alien

anti-fairy tales

the most terrible event in history

the rich man and the leper

 

SHORT STORIES

godpieces

the three bears

three albanian tales

 

ESSAYS

'original sin'

a gay man's guide to
soft-willy sex

tiger wine

the death of poetry

the absinthe drinker

with mrs dalloway in ukraine

love  and  hell

running on emptiness

a holocaust near you

a note on the cathars

happiness

londons of the mind
& dealing death to the caspian

genocide

a muezzin from the tower of darkness

kegan and kagan

being or television

satan in the groin

womb of half-fogged mirrors

tourism and terrorism

diogenes:
the dog from sinope

shoplifting

this sorry scheme of things

a holy dog and a dog-headed saint

fools for nothingness

death of a bestseller

vacuum of desire: a homo-erotic correspondence

a note on beards

translation and the oulipo

towards the zen of sex



Nuadú, God of War

field guide to megalithic ireland

houses for the dead

french megaliths

 

a small town in france

 


 

western values

the church of lazarus and the dogs

hell

 

THEMEATRIX

 

ZOOPHILIA

 

 

Doctors kill more people than 'terrorists' do.

Governments kill
a hundred times
more people than
terrorists do.

 

So what's the problem
with 'terrorism' ?

 

PAGE F THE MNTH

July 2010


The terror of error
The error of terror
The terror of seeing
The error of being



 

Every day I write down at least one poem or idea:
a complaint somewhere between a runny nose and diarrhœa.

 

 

 

SIX POEMS INSPIRED BY

ORHAN VELI

by

Anthony Weir

 


SUPERLATIVE

I love thin hairy bearded men,
I also love hunky working men
and sexy men on the dole
(I'd make the latter piles of toast)
- but I love thin, hunky, working-but-
unemployed, bearded men the most.

 

 

SUICIDE

I know
it isn't easy to live.
I know very well
that living isn't easy
especially if you
(think you) have to shave.
But dying's no doddle either,
guys.

To leave this world
when you decide you've
had enough
is not the easy option
that you think it is.
Let me tell you
it's only for the bravest
of the brave.

 

 

BEAUTY

How beautiful the colour
of fresh green tea
is
in the morning
in the fresh air.
How beautiful
the fresh air
is.
How beautiful that tree.
How handsome and how
venerable the waiter
is.
How beautiful the tea.

 

 

PRO PATRIA

Many died
Many more were maimed
Some gave speeches
None spoke out

 


SEXINESS

Where
where is my sexiness ?

One of Satan's minions took it,
couldn't sell it,
couldn't even give it away -
so he threw it away.

O where O where
is my sexiness ?

 

 

TRAVELLING

I have no intention of travelling.
I am happy in these gorgeous gorges
of the Aveyron.
But if I were to travel
I wouldn't go to Beijing,
La Paz or Mafeking.
One day you might think
you've seen me making
taking magic potions
somewhere beyond the seven oceans,
farther from here than eerie Pyongyang...

but I told you:
I have no intention of travelling.

 


 

>> Six translations of a poem by Rilke >>


 

HAIKU

by

David Burleigh


Flowers in the dark:
the absence of colour is
a kind of wonder.

 

 

 

 

BEWARE A POET BEARING WITNESS

by

Anthony Weir


To bear witness is to wade against
the filthy flow of smug hypocrisy,
greed, conformity and callousness.

Poetry is the wealth between words.

Where is the poetry of witness
in the English-speaking lands ?

I hear only muzak:
the dreadful drone of solipsistic wordsmiths
sitting on their hands.

 



 


a note on love

 

 

In Memoriam Kurt Schwitters

 

 

Life is too short

to worry about
life being short.

 

 

DOGS & HEAVEN

 

 

JULY'S MAXIM


Art, I suppose, is only for beginners, or else for those resolute dead-enders, who have made up their minds to be content with the ersatz of Suchness, with symbols rather than with what they signify, with the elegantly composed recipe in lieu of actual dinner.

- Aldous Huxley

 

SOME PREVIOUS MAXIMS:

 

Man is the deranged animal, the laughing animal, the aggrieved animal,
the complaining animal, the vengeful animal,
the weeping animal, the jeering animal,
the unhappy animal, the destroying animal
the life-denying animal.

 

A mind enclosed by language is in prison.
- Simone Weil


Consistency is the curse of understanding.

 

Quietude, which some men cannot abide because it reveals
their inward poverty, is as a palace of cedar to the wise.

- Charles H. Spurgeon (English Christian preacher, 1834-1892)

 

It seems to me that nearly 99% of poetry is false.
But maybe high-falutin falsehood is the point of poetry ?

 

To want friendship is a great fault.
Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy,
like the joys afforded by art or life.
- Simone Weil

 

I'd rather be Ireland's unknown McGonagall
than that island's latest Nobel laureat
e.


 

The world is getting to be such a dangerous place,
a man is lucky to get out of it alive.
- W.C. Fields

 

Opprobrium is more trustworthy than praise.

 

To get power over a living creature is to defile.
To possess is to defile.
- Simone Weil

 

The quickest of us walk about
with well-wadded stupidity.
- George Eliot

 




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To be human is to imagine - then create - problems.

 

the book of nothing
The Book of Nothing


A poem runs a course of unseen obstacles and comes to some sort of end with a small insight - not necessarily a great , bogus clarification, such as religions are founded on - but in a momentary glimpse of something which seems to be a kind of understanding.

 

 


archive of poems of the month


A DIVINE IMAGE

Cruelty has a human heart,
And Jealousy a human face;
Terror the human form divine,
And Secresy the human dress.

The human dress is forged iron,
The human form a fiery forge,
The human face a furnace sealed,
The human heart its hungry gorge.

William Blake


we are all

recyclable

 

The voyage of discovery is not in finding new landscapes - but in getting new eyes.
- Marcel Proust

 


 


La terre est couverte de gens qui ne méritent pas qu'on leur parle.
- Voltaire

 


a free e-Book of 198 of Anthony Weir's poems
(indexed) can be downloaded from  PoemHunter

 

 


CREDO

yet another reworking of a third-century-BC poem
by Callimachus of Cyrene

Old points of view expressed anew are crap.
Old sentiments recycled yet again,
banalities of love exposed like wounds in films,
are so much pap.
My writing's much too dissident to win a prize,
my thoughts don't come processed-flaccid from the system.
What majorities desire I just despise.



 


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