Re: a comment on Existential questions by kawakurdi	10-Jan-05/7:02 AM
Questions simply means issues, matters, concerns
Re: a comment on Existential questions by kawakurdi	10-Jan-05/7:01 AM
Thanks Jason. Forced rhymes come from the difficulty of putting a philosophical question in verse but they help to reflect the gravity of the task.
Re: a comment on My brain’s dialogue by kawakurdi	29-Dec-04/6:25 AM
This is another dualsitic dilemma of human consciousness. Brain is supposed to control everything we do. Yet we can talk about brain as the other, exhaust it, overload it, although we are again supposedly not able to do anything without brain's permission. An unanswerable riddle. That is what the poems wants to express.
Re: i hate everything about you! by da_bitch	10-Mar-04/2:55 PM
You must be mad!
Re: Glassblowers by Christof	19-Sep-02/11:22 AM
I agree with Zin. The first line is out of order within the structure of the poem and the title is enough to create the sense of the scene.
Re: Circle by Christof	19-Sep-02/11:16 AM
I like the parallel of logic and sensuality in this poem: careful description of sensual material thing and then giving it a mental sublimation. As the piece is a logical-knit, I think "Into eternity! line 3, comes too quick and the subsequent explanation ending with line 6 "Into memory" weakens the sense of eternity not strengthens it: as eternity is obviously more eternal than memory. Otherwise, a perfect poetic incarnation.
Re: a comment on Tide by <~>	14-Sep-02/3:08 PM
Sound, image and being economical with well-invested words create the sensual atmosphere of the poem like a hearth in a pool of snow.
Re: a comment on Mother! by kawakurdi	14-Sep-02/2:21 PM
Thank you all for your appreciation. Sorry horus8, it seems I deleted your comment by mistake. I wanted to reply and say: I am glad to read you again. It seemed to me you were absent for some time.
Re: a comment on Life : Paradox by amateurR	14-Sep-02/1:59 PM
Very thoughtful and expressive. I think life takes many lifetimes to understand. Many times I wish our short life were only an experience to learn from and we had another chance.. to live with the benefit of hindsight. There are so many many things to understand and judge correctly. I like the last line. Very good conclusion.
Re: a comment on Tora Bora 2002 by kawakurdi	12-Sep-02/4:02 PM
Who cares about what?
Re: a comment on Anfal: Our 9/11 happened many times over by kawakurdi	12-Sep-02/3:30 PM
GW, I know you are a decent kind-hearted person too. I was not addressing you in particular but p&k and other readers too. I think some misynderstanding has occured here. I do not have any hate towards the U.S or entertain any other hate that might blur vision of common humanity. I just hate hatred wherever comes and injustice whoever causes and commits it. I appreciate what you wrote with consideration and sympathy. Just about the comparison and the title I am not with you but this does not mean an allout war or not being potential friends. I don't think attaching 9/11 diminishes my poem or enhances it. This was not the aim. The aim is simply to attarct attention that there are other similar tragedies all of which are equally serious and catastrophic. But 9/11 is not something small. It is very grave and great, unforgettable and unforgivable. So I don't think there should be comaprisons in quality. Human life is precious and sacred and must be so considered indiscriminately. Those who died on 9/11 are also martyrs because they were criminally killed without any justification other than blind hatred. Sorry the experience I have only demonstrates how feeble and futile words are in the face of bombs, and logic in the face of power. Yes but still we write, breathe and love. My suffering has not blinded me but opened my eyes to the reality of huamnity: a jungle in which cannibals rule. But I never lost my faith in love and in small sweet gifts of kindness. I am going to raed your poem I AM ......
Re: a comment on deluge by kawakurdi	12-Sep-02/2:57 PM
What do you want to bribe me now? Just kidding. I did read Rose Of Jericho and commneted on it.
Re: a comment on Anfal: Our 9/11 happened many times over by kawakurdi	12-Sep-02/10:12 AM
I think it is too harsh to say that choosing this title brings the author to "the dishonorable status of slanderer". That is what I call a cultural attitude. It shows the arrogance that people everywhere hate about America and the Americans. In fact the poem is very old, written in 1988 when Saddam was gassing my people and US was a great supporter of him and providing him together with other Western countries and [not surprisingly for us] the Soviet Union then, with all weapons of mass destruction. I did not add the other title with the intention of being a slanderer or reducing from the magnitutude and uniqueness of 9/11. We very much feel the pain of the people who lost their dear ones. I simply wnated this title to provoke some interest in other similar targedies which adily afflict other human peoples in many parts of the world, especailly in Kurdistan. But I see it as sheer arogance to challenge a poet the right to choose a title because "your tragedy cannot be like ours". It is always this us/them dichotomy which creates jsutification for murder, torture and oppression. Also I meant by cultural context sepcific individual and collective experiences. The names in the poem of course do not mean much to you. You would feel different if the names were Colorado, California, Hawai, Florida, Manhatan, etc. And this is natural. So for an American reader of course the poem loses the cultural and emotional conetnt and history associated with these names. So it is not critisizing or attacking or defending when mentioning this fact. For me one of the names Marga is my village where I was born. It was a very beautiful mountain village in a vallay of orchards farms and natural forest. Only 150 families lived there. The whole village together with 4000 other villages were obliterated either with napalm bombing, bulldozing or if these did not do the trick, Western-supplied chemical weapons. When I went back in 1992 my village did not exist. The town in which I I studied my econdary education and then taught there as a teacher of English, did not exist anymore. No villages at all existed And there were 200,000 less people, women, youn people and children taken by Sdadm to Arab deserts of South Iraq near Saudi and Jordanian borders for experimenting the effectiveness of his biological and chemical weapons. This means at least seven 9/11s in terms of the number of victims. But I am sure this comparison again makes you angry: How can you compare the death of invisible Kurds to the death of bankers, engineers, technicains or simply American males and females? So again in terms of culture, poetry also has a different mission in different context. But I stopped writing poetry for many years after Anfal because I became depressed, desperate and disillusioned about human nature. Can all poetry of the world stop the killing of a chid by a dictatorial regime? Another thing: I never approach culture in terms of East versus West, Us versus the world. In the poem there is reference to Islamic butchers. Yes, those who carried out Anfal they did it in the name of Islam in the same way they did 9/11 atrocities in the name of Islam. Anfal itself is a word taken from the Quran which refers to the right of Muslims to kill, rob, rape, and destroy Kafirs {infifdels] once they were conquered by Muslim hordes. So Saddam used this Quranic order to perpetrate his genocide. And non of the Muslim countries and peoples in any part of the world, thsoe who fill the world with wails and cries to defend Paletenians, ever raised a voice to defend the Kurds or even to recognise their pain and suffering. Althou the greatest Muslim leader ever was the Kurdsih Salah-al-Din who fought the crusaders and I think still the West has not forgotten this when dealing with the Kurds. { I have to go. Maybe I'll continue later}
Re: a comment on Anfal: Our 9/11 happened many times over by kawakurdi	11-Sep-02/4:35 PM
You are the one who generalises. You can say " In my opinion, or I believe the poem is weak and boring, etc. But this absolute judgment is the result of your cultural ignorance. Whether you like it or not cultural context is in operation. You are a cultural product of your society, a commodity, although you behave as though you are a conscious actor that you are not.
Re: a comment on Anfal: Our 9/11 happened many times over by kawakurdi	11-Sep-02/3:18 PM
I understand that the context of your exiestence and your life experience are different and you canot relate to this. But I posted it on 11 September to allow readers a linkage of feeling. The original poem is not English and the rythm and flow are lost in translation. But what is weak? Language is for description/expression of emotion, ideas and situations. They all exist in this poem though you find it difficult to interconnect because you get bored quickly. That is part of your culture. Nothing with depth and permanence but just quick fix and fast food. Thanks anyway for allowing yourself to be bored by my poems and tell me this.
Re: Until Then by Katie	6-Sep-02/9:03 AM
Clarity is important for a good poem, and you have it. The first line has a contradiction: nowhere/by your side. Better to say: as long as by your side. The poem nicely finishes at line 6. The rest is boring repetition. Delete it.
Re: Until Then by Katie	6-Sep-02/9:00 AM
Clarity is important for a good poem and you have it. The first line has a contradiction nowhere/by your side. Better to say: Take me back to nowhere as long as you..etc. Then the poem shoud end at line 6. Delete the rest. It is all boring repitition.
Re: *I am me* by savannah	6-Sep-02/8:35 AM
These comments are stupid. This poem for someone at 13 is a very good achievment. The point in poetry is to subjective, that is express youself just yourslef as much as and as good as you can. That is what this poem does. It's a good self-image of a teen. To give [0] is sheer stupidity.
Re: A journey to the sun by kawakurdi	1-Sep-02/3:31 AM
Thank you GW for your approval. The poem is a monologue in front of mirror by the woman/old hawk. The conclusion you are right seems premature but it expresses sudden realisation of the woman that she can move on and rebuild her life after a life marred by an experienec of rape. Perhaps the expression is not suitable enough to convey this message to the reader.
Re: To Diana, five years away by kawakurdi	1-Sep-02/3:16 AM
You are right anagram, i wasn't happy with squeals of ....myself but wanted to say something about the obsession of wesetrn culture/films/media/tabloids/ with sex. I have edited the sentence to "squeals of faked orgasm" to show how even sex is dtrivialised by this obsession, but still not happy with it. Can god's wife suggest something?