{"id":4285,"date":"2018-02-08T00:20:26","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T00:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=4285"},"modified":"2018-02-08T00:25:24","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T00:25:24","slug":"paul-polansky-sat-in-my-kitchen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/paul-polansky-sat-in-my-kitchen\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Polansky Sat In My Kitchen"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Meeting<\/a>
Meeting Paul Polansky in Nis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Serbian resident US poet and human rights activist Paul Polansky<\/a> visited my humble flat some years back. As usual, my place was in a tip, but Paul passed no remarks. He works with the Kosovar IDP’s in Kosovska Mitrovica and I had the pleasure of returning his visit in Nis some years later. Alas, our mutual freind, Lubo, passed away since. This is a republishing of a poem I write at the time of Pauls visit to Tullamore.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Paul Polansky sat in my kitchen,
\nEat pudding and drank black tea,
\nAs if he were but a friend,
\nWho passing happened to be.
\nA man who worked so tirelessly
\nTo help the Roma nation,
\nA far off name in a far off land,
\nWho for me was an inspiration.<\/p>\n

And as we talked of politics
\nAnd culture, and history,
\nHe was as I, and I as him,
\nAs he chatted to Lubo and me.
\nSome say that God is far from this world
\nBut I think that he is in
\nPeople like Polansky,
\nThough they\u2019re human and subject to sin.<\/p>\n

And you \u2013 and I \u2013 are like him!
\nOr can be, in what we do\u2026
\nAnd we can find the that God himself
\nResides within us too!
\nEverybody has a Kosovo
\nYour family may be your Roma nation\u2026
\nLet God be seen in your deeds,
\nLet others find you an inspiration.<\/p>\n

Pauls Books:
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