Thursday Poem

For Victor Jara

A tribute to Victor Jara

Victor Jara
Victor Jara

Your name
bears the sound
of guitarra
your instrument of love

Victor Jara
Victor Jara

Your name
bears the sound
of tierra
the earth you cherished
like your mother’s songs

How I wished
there was no need
for yet another poem
dedicated to hands
that still sing and bleed

How I wished
the silence of this poem
was shattered now
by bullets of love
from your guitar

Victor guitarra
Victor tierra
Victor ah Jara

by John Agard
from Poetry International

About Victor Jara