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BARAKA IS GOOD FOR you

you can spread the word

or spread it on your skin

Baraka is light on your fears

I am Baraka

I am good for you

I am free for you

all you have to do

is touch me with your thoughts

and I come to you

wherever you fight

I am Baraka

a multinational industry

I have the rays you need

the money you will never need

I have the papers on which

you will never write

I have the job of your life

the partner you have been looking for

when you open your arms to me

I am there

I am there forever

3.

Where there is war

Baraka is not

Where there is greed

Baraka is not

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BARAKA IS

poetry

music

silence

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BARAKA IS NOT

prose

newspapers

television

Baraka

is

Elohim

Yhwh

God

Allah

Dieu

Dios

Deus

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BARAKA

is the El Shadday

the El who said enough

because the world was too much

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I STOP WHEN YOU CAN't handle me

when too much is too much

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4.

When I see the innocent child

I cry

from happiness

When I see the decaying old man

whose skin has been eaten

by greediness

I laugh

from sadness

The world was not meant for decay

That's why I have entered the word

Baraka

will create

lights without shadows

shadows that warm the sun

a moon as yellow

as the deepest ocean

Baraka

is silence

Baraka

is gold.

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5.

Baraka supports all the minorities in the world,

Baraka is forever a minority,

Baraka is for the Jews, the Palestinians, Indians,

the Amazighs, The Basques, the Galicians,

the Kurds, the Armenians

wherever a child cries for his lost home

you will find Baraka

wherever someone can't speak his own words

that's where Baraka prays

wherever there are lost poets

Baraka is,

wherever the homeless lives

Baraka is,

Think of me as the foam of the wave

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A WAVE CAN CARESS THE newborn

A wave can bury a city.

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6.

I am Baraka

I live in your kitchens

when the food is made with love

you will not be strangled by food

I live in your apples

and in your rice

When you end your meal

say Baraka

and say it again

Baraka

and your material food

will become spiritual guidance.

7.

Baraka is not in your guns

and not in your tanks

and no matter how much you lie

you can't put Baraka

in your weapons

Baraka is too small and too big

to be there.

8.

Where there is pain

there is longing

and there Baraka is

But Baraka prefers to be

where there is joy

and there is life

where there is love from light

and not love from shadows

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BARAKA

is there with you

at your darkest hour

when no friend

wants to see you

when your love has left you

Baraka caresses you.

9.

Baraka is simple

as truth should be simple

where people tell you

that their truth is so complex

that you cannot understand it

Baraka is not present

Because Baraka is clear water

no mud will show you the deepness of the ocean

and no cloud can make you see the sun

Baraka is simplicity

when you hear something

and you know

deep inside you

that what you hear is true

then that is Baraka.

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10.

I am Baraka

when you eat I clean your table

when your table is empty

I bring you food.

I am Baraka

I teach you

what you already know

that death is impossible

our deeds create it

that life is infinite

our deeds stop it

that there is a flow of life

we cannot stop.

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11.

I am Baraka

I break

fast

all that stops my way

to freedom

I despise

those who sell

their freedom

for lentils

I am Baraka

my country

despises

borders.

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12.

I am Baraka

I play the piano

like a drunk

but it sounds like Mozart

When you believe in keys

all the doors open.

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13.

When Baraka dies

Baraka resurrects

Baraka lives in death

Baraka dies in Life

Nothing can be greener

than the decay

and the dying

of the light.

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14.

Remember the neighbor who helped you

when most needed

there I was

Baraka lives when people talk

Baraka laughs when people love

Baraka disappears when there is a fight

He waits in a cave

until the clouds

start to rain.

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15.

When Baraka is a painter

he paints

only clouds

clouds change all the time

they have faces and are unknown

they have fingerprints

and the white

changes every second

Baraka changes like a cloud.

16.

Baraka is Jimi Hendrix

Janis Joplin, Van Gogh, John Coltrane,

Gram Parsons, Jim Morrison,

Townes Van Zandt, Lounes Matoub

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BARAKA LIVES IN THEM

and their art

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17.

Say Baraka

repeat again Baraka

again and again

Baraka

sing Baraka

pray Baraka

dance Baraka

again and again

a thousand times

write Baraka

Baraka

Baraka

Until you see the bottom of the ocean

the top of the sky

Baraka Baraka

Baraka

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18

Always forgive

Never forget

All that is buried

comes back

new words

for old atrocities

Old words

for the new oppression.

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19.

If you are afraid of death

it is because you are alive

The dead are not afraid of death.

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20.

Baraka is not god nor human

Baraka is not substance

Baraka is not nothing

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BARAKA SAYS:

The woman

in me

will

one day be

the man who can

live

with her.

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21.

I can clean the ocean

from its salt

I can stop the rain

and the tears

I can destroy the waves

I am one

in my oneness

one in my

onlyness

one in my

nothingness

There is no end

to my end.

22.

99 steps lead to the door

the key is 66 times

smaller

than the

grave

in which

an old man still alive

shouts

open this door

but no one hears him

the cemetery is deserted

No one hears him

except the black ant

on the black stone

in the black night.

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23.

You've lost me

said my friend

I don't know

what you are talking about

It is

I says

because I am lost

but it is also

and more so

because you

are lost.

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24.

The lost man seeks solace

in the hand of the master

who is also lost

in the mind of his master

but the lost man

believes in what he finds

he needs a teacher

he believes the teacher exists

Baraka says

there are no teachers

the only teacher is Baraka

and Baraka is you

inside you

outside you

and the life

you have never leaved.

25.

Many lives we live in one life

but none the right one

many lives we imagine

should be ours

but none of them

is the real one

I have heard the eagle in the sky

he says the same he said

to our ancestors

he says

I am Baraka

as you are Baraka

I suck blood

from dead bodies.

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26.

Baraka does not write in languages

he does not live in tongues

not many and not one

his poetry is the poetry of sound

of words, not of language

his poetry is the poetry of your words

if you can read it

you are Baraka

If you can't Baraka

is not for you

and Baraka urges you

to seek

another teacher

for Baraka is not a teacher

he is only Baraka.

27.

Baraka says:

Don't ask me a question

if you seek the answer within me

ask the question

only if you know the answer

is 

within you.

28.

Baraka is the great deceiver

whenever you think

you are seeing him

you are in front of the mirror

when you think

you've heard his voice

he is in another planet

whenever you think

you understand what he said

you are already mad enough

to speak with horses

ask questions

from birds

receive answers from trees

everything on this planet

is talking to you

except Baraka

Baraka is silence.

29.

When despair is everything in your life

there is no more despair

you can laugh at it all

as if you were never born

when everything is lost

everything is won

when you have nothing to lose

you have won

The sky and the sea, the air and the water

is yours

your naked body belongs to the wind

it comes and goes

and goes

and never

comes back.

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30.

Baraka is the teacher who cannot teach

Baraka is the teacher

who does not want to teach

Baraka is blind

Baraka is deaf

Baraka is mute

Don't follow Baraka

he doesn't know where to go

Baraka is the fences

not the way

Baraka is the wheel

not the car

If you follow Baraka

you'll find yourself

Don't trust yourself

and trust the others

even less

Baraka is trust.

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31.

Listen to the sound of the bird in the garden

of the noisy big city

he's trying to say something he knows

his singing is not for beauty

his singing is a message

from ancient planets

a message

from forgotten gods

a message

from people

who were and hadn't

who weren't and won

who lost and came back

The sound of the bird is Baraka

but Baraka is also the sound of the machines

that dissipate the beauty of the bird.

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You have sinned my lord

and we are all clean

You have sinned my lord

and no one can forgive you

we are too busy

asking for

your forgiveness

We are man my lord

human kind

dusty dust, windy wind

we are leaves in autumn

we are the rays of the sun

my lord my lord

Baraka is forgiveness

for sins never sinned

Baraka is the flame and the ray

the water that bleeds

the sound of the wind

in a tornado

the mud when the child walks

the rain when the old man dies

Baraka cries sometimes

but not with tears

he cries the history of the centuries

Baraka cries the past

Baraka cries years.

33.

My son my son

who's your mother?

your father's lost

in crazy centuries

looking for peace

where there is only blood

he looks at the skies

and the skies

are below the ground

he looks at the sea

but the fish

are in the skies

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MY SON, MY SON

why did you kill your father?

why did your mother run away from you?

My son, my son, you are now alone

the loneliness of god

has become your fate

run from sea to sea

from land to land

running is your country and your family.

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34.

Men eat cows/

men raise cows

and they always need more.

Now imagine this/

some other civilization

extraterrestrial

lives from the soul of men

a substance emitted

by the death of people

and they start raising up more people.

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BARAKA SAYS

a man must be crazy

to think this.

Baraka is crazy.

35.

Baraka speaks with God

when God sleeps

he is afraid of God

when God speaks

He has asked God many questions

the answers

came back to him

through the birds

That's why

Baraka

won't speak

with birds.

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36.

Baraka says:

Beware of words

don't use the words

love or truth

lightly

unless

you have seen

what others should

see

Don't say there is no love in this world

for it might

hit you

when less

expected.

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37.

Baraka says:

I write poetry

because it is

the closest thing

to

doing nothing

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I AM A POET

because it

is the closest thing

to being no  one

I am a poet

because

I don't exist

someone who must die

cannot exist.

38.

Baraka says:

I am not a wise man

for wise men

in the end of times

don't write poems

and don't even say a word

their only wisdom left

is silence

Baraka knows the world

is ill from too many words

but he cant's help

but add his own

He is weak and ill

when it comes to words.

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39.

Baraka loves the sea

but does not

trust the sea

he knows that behind every wave

lies a storm

below every fish the memory

of a shark

Baraka knows

a giant wave

bigger than the twin towers

will one day erase his city

but Baraka needs the sea

as much as he needs the sun

and air

and poetry.

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40.

The Jews were chosen by God

to carry the stone

of the father and the son

from birth to grave

from dusk to dawn

and light the day

with a match

Jews were chosen

because God is free

to chose

the last to be the first

Baraka says:

So are we,

we can choose the chair

in which we sit

even if it has three legs.

41.

Baraka is the child

beaten by his father

Baraka is God

when his people

look the other way

Baraka is not the child

beating his sister

nor God

destroying

men.

42.

Baraka says:

You cannot burn ashes twice

that's why I don't see evil

where there is light

and that's why

I have closed the doors

on Mephisto and his gang

Once you know you are mortal

you cannot be killed twice

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BE FREE AND

talk

from

the bottom of your heart.

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43.

Baraka says:

truth should be simple

and clear

clear as the blue

in the skies

in a day without clouds

simple as the whiteness

of the cloud

in a day without skies

When you hear it

you will feel it is

the truth

when you see it

your eyes

should shine.