“and when we speak we are afraid
our words will not be heard
nor welcomed
but when we are silent
we are still afraid
So it is better to speak
remembering
we were never meant to survive”
-Audre Lorde
Salaam to you.
Poetry ennobles a person and elevates him above his petty environment. It can guide a wavering mind through the daily rough course of life to a safer position. And, in a way, it can make our everyday life a thing of beauty.
Friedrich V. Lustig, From the foreword of Burmese Classical Poems. Translations can obviously never do the original justice, but they’re worth a read, containing poems from people of all walks of life and classes through the history of Burma.
indigocrayon said:
the written language is pretty, it reminds me of malayalam kind of
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