L'aura del Campo

Sunset of 2020 [189] (landay)

Sunset of 2020

         in mourning for Minneapolis, Kenosha, Portland...

A

You say protesters that cross this line must be shot.
I pray as I sit silent with my trembling friends.

B

Fearful, you shoot to kill anything that moves.
Hungry, we loot dumpsters for aluminum cans.

C

Don Juan Tyrant spreads hatred slick as anal jelly.
At dawn our sons make sandwiches for unfed children.

D

By morning: you lament broken glass and spray paint.
In mourning: I sweep up pieces of shattered dreams.

E

All crime must be dealt with by death you scream.
My time here on Earth is best spent healing.

F

Is it us-versus-them, as clear as black and white?
I fuss over which shade of grey suits your casket.

© Kåre Enga [177.189.a-f] (31.avgust.2020)

Note: Persian languages are verb final which gives a sense of rhyme. I use words that rhyme near the begininng of these couplets. 9/13 syllables but how many metrical feet? Perhaps 4 or 5. In English that's 4 or 5 stressed syllables. There is also a sense of the suppressed or oppressed speaking to someone in power.

Tapa, Landay or Misr'a is folk poetry, a Pashto couplet. Landay means "short" in Pashto. The Tapa or Landay is mostly found in Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. It is called Tapa in the more eastern Pashto dialects.

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