¡no Pasarán! Poem by Zyw Zywa

¡no Pasarán!

Rating: 5.0


1990: tarnished
was our holy land
by half a million unbelievers
to teach the neighbours a lesson

2001: we wash ourselves
with the blood of fifteen
martyrs in the heavenly fire
high above their city

2019: it may never, never
happen again, foreign soldiers
in our country, only their weapons
we want - here is the money

Again the bell rings
that nobody wants to hear
We are crossing our boundaries
and nobody can control us

Wednesday, September 11, 2019
Topic(s) of this poem: politics,power
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
1990 -1991 Gulf War (Operations "Desert Shield" and "Desert Storm")
2001 World Trade Center New York, September 11th
2019 More American soldiers in Saudi-Arabia

¡No pasarán! = "They shall not pass"
("Ils ne passeront pas! " in Verdun,1916)
("Pe aici nu se trece" in Mărășești,1917)
("¡No pasarán! " in Madrid,1936)

Collection "Blown sand"
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Mahtab Bangalee 11 September 2019

beautifully penned on gulf war,9/11 and current political issue of USA in Saudi-Arabia// specifically the last stanza

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