Dust House Poem by Peshawa Kakayi

Dust house
Peshawa kakayi
Translated by: Goran Sabah
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I write
What the Earth and sky tell me
To write with the notebook of the wind
With the pen of the cloud.
Dust storm or not
Is it coming?
Are you blind?
The air tells us:
You, the dust, when you rain
The sky's sight gets blurry.
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For ages, they have wanted us to leave the Earth
Who will move to Mars?
Isn't it copy pasted here?
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In the air
The air is not itself and the Earth's skull is cracked,
When it awakes,
It forgets about rain, snow and hail.
Colored or not,
White becomes an old poem inside the snow to get obsolete!
Flood becomes a prose for the calendar
The farmers will read it in their farms.
Hail breaks lesser windscreens than before
Dust comes by itself, attaches itself to the windscreens,
Only when the price of wipers goes higher
Human beings understand their naivety
Only then slam their heads against the wall.
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No one has energy for revolutions
Look, revolution is waged in the air,
Orange revolution
Turns into red.
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Dust
Its heels were cracked,
Preferred to stay in the desert,
Itching its skin
Taking showers with the wind
Without the cities seeing it!
Dust was forced into the city,
Can settle in any corner it chooses.
Human beings rush into the desert, wandering!
Like air and water we have density, they say,
We rain and we have existence.
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Dust winds through the gardens
Blinds the gardeners
When it sees flowers' miscarriages!
Wheat flowers cough,
Saying, dream interpretation is unnecessary
"If the situation continues as such
Famine come to you every year."*
Grass forgets itself,
Visits the hospitals
To receive a share
And the money lands in the pocket of a wealthy doctor!
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At nights, we don't open the windows,
Here is a dust house!
Stars are blind
The moon is drowned in dust storm.
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Every month, we publish a schedule,
Salary schedule
Raining schedule
Death schedule
Battle casualties schedule
Launching spaceships schedule,
The dust too
Announces its schedule so that
Its name is in the sky every month.
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2022

*It refers to Prophet Joseph's dream interpretation.
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Dust house
Peshawa kakayi
Translated by: Goran Sabah