A SONG FOR THE PROFESSIONALS OF GUILT AND SIN

Thanks to the Spanish actor José Sacristán

Please listen to me,
gentlemen, far from gentle
excluding our women
abusing your mantle

in warning for sin
whilst spoiling our kin.

Remember the words
of a rabbi so lonely
who made us his children
but wasn`t a phony.

He asked only mercy
no sacrifice worthy.

Just leave your mistructions
ashamed of false powers;
please gentlemen
study
the movements
and beauty

of all that is simple
and constantly moving:

Life's love
in a flower.
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From 'Poetic lines, Torroella de Montgrí, 2003 by
Jan Arends who also made the photo of an Azucena

CARMEN REBORN

Your sunny laugh and busy fingers
are slowing down but sometimes lingers
a smile behind your pains and sorrow
spreading some hope for a tomorrow

When on a beach: what crystal thought!
the sun will shine and you'll be caught
by fresh and blinking lukewarm water:
that lovely girl is whom I fought for.

Those weeks of pain will disappear
clear, healing water bears your cheer
of joy and freedom, fresh and funny:
there swims my Carmen brown and sunny.

After those weeks have tumbled down
I'll see you in a fresh new gown.
That will protect your newborn life:
let's live that joy, my loving wife.

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From 'Poetic lines', Torroella de Montgrí, 2003
by Jan Arends who also made the photo of Carmen
and the parakeet in Haarlem, The Netherlands.