[WSMDiscuss] a small poem by someone hoping that coronavirus will drive out at least one evil

[Anna Harris]

Thank you Azril, love that!

Anna x

On Wed, 1 Apr 2020, 11:15 Azril Bacal Roij, <bazril1 at lamolina.edu.pe> wrote:

> Inspired by Sujit Sinha, I herewith enclose a rebellious tanka in Spanish
> and English (not exactly identical as it is often the case in translation)
> against the corona and fascist pandemia.
> Abrazos
> /Azril Bacal
> Poet and activist
> ______
>
> Tanka Rebelde
>
> Escuché hoy el
> primer trino del alba
> primaveral que
> desafía el paso
> sombrío de la peste
> -----
> Listened .today
> the first trill at daybreak, it
> is Spring defying
> the somber goosesteps of
> virus and political pests
>
> ____
>
> El mar., 31 mar. 2020 a las 14:06, Sujit.Sinha (<sujit.sinha at apu.edu.in>)
> escribió:
>
>> This is a small Bengal poem I got yesterday wishing that coronavirus will
>> bring about Tagore's dream "where the world has not been broken into
>> fragments by narrow domestic walls"
>> The poet is Chitrodeep Som and this is my translated version .
>>
>> Sujit Sinha
>> Storyteller of Living Utopias.
>>
>>
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