its beautiful
--- Aditi thorat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dear all,
> I had asked all of you sometime back, about a poem
> by Martin Carter,
> the Guyanese poet. Well I have managed to find a
> portion of it, thanks
> to a friend, but despite hunting, still haven't been
> able to lay my
> hands on the complete poem. Please let me know if
> this rings any bells
> or if any of you have access to this collection. The
> web is
> surprisingly unhelpful when it comes to Carter's
> poetry, except a few
> well known ones.
>
> Aditi
>
> PS-The excerpt itself is quite beautiful, I think
>
> ---------------------------------------
>
> But I laugh at them --
>
> I laugh because I know they cannot kill me
>
> Nor kill my thoughts, nor murder what I write.
>
> I am a man living among my people
>
> Proud as the tree the axeman cannot tumble --
>
> So if my people live I too must live!
>
> And they will live, I tell you they will live!
>
> But these...
>
> I laugh at them
>
> But I tell you
>
> Like a tide from the heart of things
>
> Inexorably and inevitably
>
> A day will come
>
>
>
> If I do not live to see that day
>
> My son will see it
>
> If he does not see that day
>
> His son will see it.
>
> And it will come circling the world like fire.
>
> It will come to this land and every land
>
> And when it comes I'll come alive again
>
> And laugh again and walk out of this prison.
>
> --- Martin Carter
>
> from "Letter I,", Poems of Resistance (1954)
>
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