GERMAIN DROOGENBROODT

RECOGNITION

Stacked on the writing table the books
multicolored, large and small, thin and thick
poetry from all over the world.

Peaceful words waiting
for the recognition, for the acceptance
of being distinct and different,
to be allowed to be themselves.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Rivers overflow their banks
houses are demolished
cars swept away
by the raging waters:
man has disrupted nature.

In vain
wisdom’s warning words

Would a chip, implanted in the brain,
offer more wisdom or even more blindness
and indoctrination?

(from “The Road of Being”, South Arizona Press, see Margutte here)

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A VICTIM
-Gaza -

Not yet closed
but wide-eyed
and full of horror
the eyes

pursed the lips
because time was too short
for a farewell greeting
for a last prayer.

(Unpublished)

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PETRIFIED

At the town square
stands the statue
of a war hero.
He looks ahead
as if he looks to the future
as if he looks for a time without wars
a time of worldwide peace

—but his eyes are petrified.

(Unpublished)

(Painting: Nadia Martynenko, Ukrain)

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