Surprises! Typing the title I found empire@usa.com Turning blue Naturally Yet in this fractal empire This controlled chaos for marketing far Far away nothing is natural An imaginary curve Imaginary numbers Trace the topology Uncountable infinite The cardinality of profitability Is larger than any countable Infinity of humans trees or other beings Clearly bombs are necessary for this fractal order People are not--- beyond the necessary capital-labor-energy ratio The calculated callousness of war overrides the pragmatics of the life-world Till a strange attractor arises to strangle all the higher order calculations Ordering our gentle gifts nature- life Death dissipates naturally Fractious fractals fall to freedom Utopia annihilates dot com Emperor of icecream dissolves Empire chaos kaos kyrie eleison · · · · · ·
Iraq on Swans Poetry on Swans Kahnupad Haider is the nom de plume Haider A. Khan uses when he writes poetry. Kahnupad is the name of the earliest buddhist poet c. 8th-9th century in Bengal. Khan is an award-winning poet, translator and literary critic. He has written on Octavio Paz, James Joyce and the Japanese Haiku master Basho, among others. He is a professor at the graduate school of international studies, University of Denver, and a visiting professor at the University of Tokyo. Do you wish to share your opinion? We invite your comments. E-mail the Editor. Please include your full name, address and phone number. If we publish your opinion we will only include your name, city, state, and country. Please, feel free to insert a link to this poem on your Web site or to disseminate its URL on your favorite lists, quoting a few paragraphs or providing a summary. However, please DO NOT steal, scavenge or repost this work without the expressed written authorization of Swans. This material is copyrighted, © Haider A. Khan 2003. All rights reserved. |
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