The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Friday January 6th, 2023
Kahlil Gibran: The Forerunner by Rene Wadlow
Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931), the Lebanese poet whose birth anniversary we mark on 6 January, was a person who saw signs in advance of later events or trends. The Forerunner is the tile of one of his books, though less known than his major work The Prophet. As he wrote “Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.”
Lebanon is a country rich in legend and Biblical references. It is the traditional birth place of the god Tanmuz and his sister Ishtar. Tammus is a god who represents the yearly cycle of growth, decay and revival of life, who annually dies and rises again from the dead – a forerunner of Jesus. Ishtar is a goddess who creates the link between earth and heaven – the forerunner of Mary, mother rather than sister of Jesus, but who plays the same symbolic role. As Gibran wrote “Mother (woman), our consolation in sorrow, our hope in misery, our strength in weakness. She is the source of love, mercy, sympathy and forgiveness… I am indebted for all that I call ‘I’ to women, ever since I was an infant. Women opened the wisdom of my eyes and the doors of my spirit. Had it not been for the woman -mother- the woman-sister- and the woman-friend- I would be sleeping among those who seek the tranquility of the world with their snoring.”
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Life Continues #poem & #painting by Nikos Laios
“Life
Continues;
In dark alleys,
In empty streets,
In vacant car lots,
In office blocks filled
With hollow men,
In abandoned factories,”
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Worming #56 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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