The Barbarians Have Come Poem by Zyw Zywa

The Barbarians Have Come

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The barbarians have come
and they keep coming
century after century

We are polite, we give
them high titles
They give us their laws

in a nice speech
with eloquent words
about civilisation in our wilderness

that we nota bene no longer
need to live like savages
no longer in the wilderness

The barbarians have come
and they keep coming
century after century obedient

to the right and the interests
that threaten them with the strong arm
the hard hand, and a ripped out tongue

This is a translation of the poem De Barbaren Zijn Gekomen by Zywa Zywa
Wednesday, June 1, 2022
Topic(s) of this poem: war,power,violence
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#14 'Periménontas tous Barbárous' ('Waiting for the Barbarians' (1904, Konstantínos Kaváfis) --- The Iroquois are the league of the five tribes (nations) Mohawk, Oneida, Onanondaga, Cayuga and Seneca; this league is called Kaianerekowa = Great Law of Peace --- In the council of the league are speakers (sachem) those who bring the position of their group and try to convince the others to agree with it (the Aztecs named these speakers 'tlatoani', with Moctezuma as huey-tlatoami [supreme speaker]) ; it is honorable to be a speaker, but there is no power attached to it, so that the settlers wrongly treated the speakers as 'chief' --- Collection 'The drama'
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UNNIKRISHNAN Sivasankara Menon 01 June 2022

It is for us, the people to keep vigilance against!

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