Gabriel Burlacu is a Romanian mechanical engineer who was here in Kuala Lumpur for a job related to nuclear science. He is also a poet and he gave my husband a book of his poetry.
This one stuck in my mind, as it was written in Kuala Lumpur in August 2008. Malaysians will know why this theme came to him while he was here... They will also know why I quote it now.
....Asunder
.....Religions put us asunder
.....Ideologies do
.....And cultures do, too
.....The languages we speak put us asunder
.....Our customs and traditions and laws
.....What is that unites us?
.....--Gabriel Burlacu
About Me
- Glenda Larke
- Malaysia
- My life has been described by one of my editors as “impossibly exotic” – although really it is not my life, but me, that’s the exotic. I’m the uprooted plant, the exotic who doesn’t belong, always living in someone else’s backyard...
An Australian living in Malaysia. Writer, traveler, environmentalist. Author of The Isles of Glory trilogy (The Aware, Gilfeather, The Tainted); The Mirage Makers trilogy (Heart of the Mirage, The Shadow of Tyr, Song of the Shiver Barrens) and, writing as Glenda Noramly, a stand-alone book Havenstar. The latest trilogy is called The Watergivers in Australia and the Stormlord trilogy elsewhere: THE LAST STORMLORD, STORMLORD RISING, STORMLORD'S EXILE
Havenstar
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3 comments:
One can make assumptions but cannot really comment.
A sense of humanity will unite us...
I hope so, Alex. Or maybe a belated realisation that sticks are easily broken unless they are tied together.
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