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    The document contains a collection of poems by Charles Flores exploring various themes such as parties, summer, youth, violence, and human suffering. The poems utilize vivid imagery and metaphor to convey complex emotions and experiences. They were originally published in poetry journals and collections from the 1970s.

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    The document contains a collection of poems by Charles Flores exploring various themes such as parties, summer, youth, violence, and human suffering. The poems utilize vivid imagery and metaphor to convey complex emotions and experiences. They were originally published in poetry journals and collections from the 1970s.

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    Poems by Flores

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    Daniel Guerola Benito
    The document contains a collection of poems by Charles Flores exploring various themes such as parties, summer, youth, violence, and human suffering. The poems utilize vivid imagery and metaphor to convey complex emotions and experiences. They were originally published in poetry journals and collections from the 1970s.

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    Poetry (Flores)

    28/01/15 10:53

    POEMS
    By

    CHARLES FLORES

    PARTY

    I went to a party yesterday


    And I ate the lovely skies of blue
    A golden sun
    And a few rubble walls
    Before quenching my thirst
    With a drink or two
    Of Med Sea on the rocks.
    The hot "pjazza"
    And the bubbling feasts too
    Were good,
    But first and foremost at my next
    Will be a blissful Maltese lady.
    She was so good to taste,
    So subtle and pure!
    So nice, so appetising!
    My dear host did everything
    To please us all
    And plates of creamy beaches
    And ice-cream filled bikinis
    Really did it all.
    What spoiled the party in the end,
    What put us off the very scene,
    Was a blackish thing
    Served in gigantic plates
    To wind the party up:
    A dishful of pollution.
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    [From: CORRESPONDENCES (Cog Press, Leicester, UK), 1973]


    --------------------------

    SUMMER HEART

    The icy drops of rain that fall


    And add the jigsaw puzzle on my window pane
    And the sudden flashes of blinding light
    That go across my room
    Like a haughty Christmas ghost
    Extinguish the flame
    That fills my heart
    -- a sunny heart of Maltese summer
    with asphalt roads seething with the heat
    and birds forgetting all their tunes
    in a silly bid to drop their feathers
    and join us in the swim.
    My summer heart is crying loud,
    A shout that echoes through
    These cold and wintry caverns
    Where life goes limp
    And shadows play the game of death
    Like a satanic dance
    By homeless demons
    And cold fires.
    I am the sacrifice for all.
    I am the naked being
    Waiting for the sickening sound
    Of a thousand whips
    And a bloodless dagger
    Getting red and redder as we go along.
    Oh let my summer shine again,
    Let it burst and overflow
    Before this audience of perversion,
    Let it jump the fires
    And the whip and bleeding daggers,
    The men in the ladies' dresses,
    The ladies in men's suits,
    Make love Satan a good saint
    But first, please, first,
    Put a lady in my stead.
    [From: CORRESPONDENCES (Cog Press, Leicester, UK), 1973]
    ----------------------

    STEPPING STONE
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    Nothing takes the place of youth


    A flower wrinkling underneath
    The heartless thud of time.
    I am the good old lad - la la la la
    Of Dylan, Donovan.
    There's a song that reminds me
    Of our days and lost embrace,
    Of the time we spent in happiness
    Of the love that we exchanged.
    AND
    It's this
    That makes me shudder
    As I step into manhood.
    Nothing takes the place of youth.
    Here's a dagger,
    Here's a knife.
    Cut the flower.
    Cut my life.
    [From: A VOICE FROM KALKARA (New Broom Press, Leicester, UK), 1974]
    -------------------------

    PICK MY TEETH

    I love to pick my teeth


    And watch you grimace, my love.
    It's funny, you know?
    De Sade never thought of it
    -- silly fellow!
    I need not use the chains
    Or the heavy locks and grizzly whips.
    Life's got enough of that.
    So while I pick my teeth,
    Would you kindly grimace, love?
    [From: A VOICE FROM KALKARA (New Broom Press, Leicester, UK), 1974]

    ******************************

    VERSI VJOLINI VJOLENTI


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    Poetry (Flores)

    28/01/15 10:53

    AUSCHWITZ
    KANTILENA

    Aktar ma tghoddosni
    Fil-hama ta' l-inkapacita'
    U ggaghlni nisghol demm marid,
    Aktar ma tonfoh bzieq musfar
    F'ghajnejja
    U tfaqqa' d-daqqiet kiefra
    Fuq is-sinsla mgengla,
    Aktar se ssibni
    Bilgri lura nilheg f'wiccek
    Nistenna t-tama
    Tfaqqas qlub tad-deheb
    U flieles ckejkna jpespsu
    Go widnejk
    Il-melodija tal-holqien
    U l-innocenza.
    Aktar ma tisbel
    U tissielet mal-muntanji tad-djamanti
    U taghraf tilghab bi hjut is-shab
    Tal-brimb ghall-wirt ta' Guda,
    Aktar se ssibni
    Bit-tbissima trangat wara dellek,
    Nonfoh il-bziezaq tal-kuluri
    U nhares lejk nistenna mqar
    Tnehida
    Li tkessah il-vini,
    Tnixxef id-demm
    U trattab qalbek,
    Qalb mimlija rmied
    Li nharaq f'Auschwitz.
    ----------------------

    DNUB MA JORQODX

    Ghad johorgu ghalik,


    Jibilghuk
    U jgorruk
    l-erwieh mikduda ta' l-imghoddi.
    F'difrejhom jahkmuk
    U jimlewk bit-ticpis
    Tad-dnub
    Li dawwart m'ghonqok
    Meta b'sahhtek kont
    Sabiex tisfida.
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    Ghad jigu ghalik


    Minn kullimkien
    Sabiex jisquk il-gulepp
    Li jizzerzaq bejn id-dwiefer
    Suwed tas-saqajn
    Ghaggiela.
    U fin-nifs kiebi taghhom
    Terga' dduq il-benna
    Bil-maqlub.
    U meta rasek 'l isfel
    Thoss id-demm jitlembet f'gismek
    Ftakar
    Wahda
    Fija.
    --------------------

    XEMGHA 99

    Ersaq lejja
    U tini jdejk.
    Harstek fuqi,
    Shan xufftejk.
    Miss idejja,
    Tistaqsinix
    Ghala keshu,
    Tithassarnix.
    Ibqa hdejja,
    Titlaqnix.
    Waqghet dalma,
    Thallinix.
    Fimnifsejja
    Ghadha l-fwieha
    Ta l-imghoddi
    Tghanni shiha.
    Fuq riglejja
    Intasabt,
    Ghax mhawnx hniena,
    Ghalxejn tlabt.
    Ma haddejja
    Shuna d-demgha;
    Qieghda tnemnem
    Tieghi x-xemgha.
    --------------------------

    QCACET

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    Poetry (Flores)

    28/01/15 10:53

    Tela l-gholja tal-hgieg


    U xappap wiccu bl-odju
    Fost l-ilfiq tal-kummidjanti
    U x-xeghir tan-nisa tqal
    Misluta
    Mixhuta
    Mikduda
    Fl-ghabra tlellex ta bil-lejl
    Qisha sunetti
    U borra fuq is-saqaf tal-karozzi
    U fil-fondoq tac-cumnija twila
    U sewda
    Wieqfa
    Soda,
    Phallus ta l-irham.
    U nizel bilgri fiz-zurzieqa
    Mxarrba
    U beka malli sema kollox.
    Sab habel twil
    U ddendel minnu
    Bhal miblugh
    Li la jaf bruh
    U, issa, lanqas bgisem.
    -----------------------------

    DRAGUN

    Bin-nar go halqek
    U ghajnejk imberrqa
    Bhal dragun
    Qed tigri wrajja.
    Nifsi maqtugh
    U l-lanza mkissra,
    Izda ximkien
    L-irdum jghajtilna,
    jien nieqaf fix-xifer
    u inti tibqa tlebbet l isfel
    go l-abbiss.
    ------------------------------

    KOSOVO

    Lil min se naqbad nemmen


    -- dawk l-ucuh mikduda?
    -- dawk l-ulied mahsuda?
    -- dawk ix-xjuh minfuda?
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    28/01/15 10:53

    Fejn se mmur
    -- inhaffer l-oqbra mbajda?
    -- nidhol fta l-erwieh is-sajda?
    -- intella bandiera bajda?
    Ghaliex
    -- inhossni bhalhom agunija?
    -- bid-djieq u l-ghaks go fija?
    -- u qalbi mistohbija?
    Tghid min
    -- jaf fejn hija l-verita?
    -- ta din l-assurdita?
    -- li tghix kuljum l-umanita?
    -------------------------------

    LINDA MXAJTNA

    Linda ta Luretu
    Marret timxi fil-widien tal-lut
    U sabet l-erwieh jizfnu
    Zifna sahharija
    Qalb id-demm maghqud
    U n-nar jitliegheb
    Fnofs il-hakma ta l-imhuh
    U d-dawl bla dija.
    Linda temmet
    Dik il-mawra
    Fis-swidija
    U bkew ghajnejn l-erwieh,
    U xerrdu x-xmajjar
    Homor,
    Nixfu l-griehartificjali
    U tkebbu wahda fl-ohra,
    Wiehed fl-iehor
    Bhal orgja illi baqghet
    Kristalizzata.
    --------------------------------

    E-mail to Charles Flores at: [email protected]


    See entry for Charles Flores in: WHO'S WHO
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