READERS ON POEM "SREBRENICA IS A FALLING STAR"
A Poem by MELIKA SALIHBEG BOSNAWI
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The best word to describe 'Srebrenica is a Falling Star' is, beautiful. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. And what better gift can you give in the memory of those lost in Srebrenica, than something that is beautiful.
Of course the poem is not only about beauty. It is about extreme anguish and longing for answers, and loss. It is about unanswered questions and things that do not make human sense. It is about horror that I can only try to imagine. But what shone through for me, what sparkled and twinkled and made me smile for the lost people of Srebrenica. was the beauty. The silver star dust that is the lost people of Srebrenica. The love for Srebrenica.
I thank for giving me the priviledge to have touched some of that star dust. And every time I see a falling star, I will remember. Srebrenicaisafallingstar. And I will wish for love.
I have shared the poem with my children and some of my close friends. You have made the memory of Srebrenica past, come alive for me.
Thank you
1)
The best word to describe 'Srebrenica is a Falling Star' is, beautiful. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. And what better gift can you give in the memory of those lost in Srebrenica, than something that is beautiful.
Of course the poem is not only about beauty. It is about extreme anguish and longing for answers, and loss. It is about unanswered questions and things that do not make human sense. It is about horror that I can only try to imagine. But what shone through for me, what sparkled and twinkled and made me smile for the lost people of Srebrenica. was the beauty. The silver star dust that is the lost people of Srebrenica. The love for Srebrenica.
I thank for giving me the priviledge to have touched some of that star dust. And every time I see a falling star, I will remember. Srebrenicaisafallingstar. And I will wish for love.
I have shared the poem with my children and some of my close friends. You have made the memory of Srebrenica past, come alive for me.
Thank you
Lyne Dee,
Montreal, Quebec, Canada 1.7.2000 0:00:00.
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Portion of Verse
This is from the small book Srebrenica is a falling star published in July 2000, five years after the genocide.
I'm continually amazed at the power a few words have. Here's 65 of them. . .
I have yet to call for help […]
Hieronymus Bosch and Brueghel,
I have yet to ask them
to paint:
the regions turned to Hell,
the torment of the innocent,
iconostasis of horror,
and, then, to thread up a caravan of satanic faces,
the horde of the damned,
lost souls,
on their blood-soaked
course
in the twentieth century
to Gehenna,
as they pass through
Bosnia.
—Melika Salihbeg Bosnawi
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