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Literary Contributions
Death Parade
Satis Shroff
Love parade in Duisburg,
Street Parade in Zürich,
Panic among the masses,
A big party society.
On July 31, 2010
Helvetia celebrated her birthday
With eighteen tons of fireworks,
Fired from two ships,
Across the sky over the Rhine,
With 100,000 visitors.
In Germany the people are shocked,
To learn that 20 young souls,
Out dancing ecstatically,
Techno-rhythmically,
Were stamped to death,
By fellow ravers,
Who turned into a thoughtless mob,
Out to save their own lives
In panic.
A quarter million ravers were invited,
Half a million came.
Those who couldn't find a place,
Didn't go to the city of Duisburg.
Eleven young women,
Eight young men,
Out to rave,
Were carried
To the grave.
The authorities and organisers,
Washed their hands in innocence,
Blamed it on individual weakness
And folly,
The tunnel was for 20,000,
We'll budge no more.
Satis Shroff is a prolific
writer, lecturer, poet and artist and the published author of three
books on www.stores.lulu.com/satisle: Im Schatten des Himalaya (book of
poems in German), Through Nepalese Eyes (travelogue), Katmandu, Katmandu
(poetry and prose anthology by Nepalese authors, edited by Satis Shroff).
His lyrical works have been published in literary poetry sites: Slow
Trains, International Zeitschrift, World Poetry Society (WPS), New Writing
North, Muses Review, The Megaphone, Pen Himalaya, Interpoetry. He is
a member of "Writers of Peace", poets, essayists, novelists (PEN),
World Poetry Society (WPS) and The Asian Writer. He also writes on ecological,
ethno-medical, culture-ethnological themes, and has studied Zoology
and Botany in Nepal, Medicine and Social Sciences in Germany and Creative
Writing in Freiburg and the United Kingdom.
He describes himself as a mediator between western and eastern cultures
and sees his future as a writer and poet. Since literature is one of
the most important means of cross-cultural learning, he is dedicated
to promoting and creating awareness for Creative Writing and transcultural
togetherness in his writings, and in preserving an attitude of Miteinander
in this world. He lectures in Basle (Switzerland) and in Germany at
the Akademie für medizinische Berufe (University Klinikum Freiburg).
Satis Shroff was awarded the German Academic Exchange Prize. If you
want to read more articles and poems by the author, then just google
or yahoo search for: satis shroff.
Politicians
Boghos L. Artinian
They speed in armoured cars
through crowded streets;
tires sprinkling dust
and screeching arrogance!
So kindly step aside
for they are the elite,
perchance to a meeting
to better your lot.
Yet your lot could be sealed
there and then, on the road,
should a blast for them
intended, tear you apart
and join you to your dead,
while they, unscathed, to "duty" speed
undeterred in armoured cars.
Boghos L. Artinian is a physician in private practice in Beirut
and has been there since 1975. He has an MD from the American
University of Beirut, 1968 and MRCP (UK) in 1973. His first published
poem is called "Pacing in the Tomb" and was published in the Saudi Medical
Journal, 1986. He also published two poems, titled "Rightly Foreseen" and "panspermia"
in Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 1987. Since then he has published over fifty other poems in various journals.
This featured poem concerns his experience in war-torn Beirut between 1975 and 1990.
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