Neville Bezzina

What does an IQ Test Measure?

Why do you so sigh at the expression of life and huff away in a frenzied maze?

While the maize creaks in its stems,

and streaks and bends towards the earth,

While the wind breathes the advanced directions

on the sweet violin fields,

an orchestral piece of violent jittering streams,

hugging the cloaked and ended banks,

the mud of the wise old fern frowning in the sudden understanding

of joyful youth?

Your face is drawn, covered by chocolate-shadows, dappling-features,

ringed by a crown of fire from behind the distant hills, and I smile-

while you sleep, and remember the thoughts and dreams of the weak light,

a night that removed my whine and song from your oldest discord.

The jaw bone, a timeless souvenir of history's tides-

breaks into a million streaks, plumes and feathers

plunging down in African blends, of orange-purple-yellow ferns,

and brownish looking tents of paper, thrown into the cataracts of white eyes-

The ice of in-culture architecture,

a flash of emerald blindness

to see

intelligence in the toil,

to find-

discovery in the sweet perfume

understand the language in the crushing of the seed grains,

the elemental electrical smile

in the face of an angry, bearded sea, frothing in chained freedom.

So come

the simple gains,

of a countless array masterpiece,

finished by the same strokes,

of that single useful paint-brush

Dubbiena

"Ejjew, huti naqraw issa
din it-talba lil iSpirtu S-Santu
li ghandkom fuq il-fuljetti
li il Kummisjoni qassmet fil-bidu
ta' din ic-celebrazzjoni hekk sabiha"

Madwari, nies trenjati jaghmlu
l-istess haga kull nhar ta' Hadd mqaddes:
jobdu avolja jippurthom
hafna aktar minn affarjiet lil hinn minn hawn.

"Naqraw bil-mod flimkien"
Ghaliex? Ghax ma jifimniex?

Jien Hawn imma le- mhux wiehed minn dawn.
Izda bhat-tfal ghadni incert minn dak li
nista' nahseb, forsi.

Ir-raguni li din id dubbiena li taret
ma' l-art giet it-tempju hija raguni
iktar naturali Minn l-iskuza ta'
l-atturi li tghallmu skript bl-amment.

Farsa komika li tispicca fi tragedja
ila tirrepeti ruha litteralment minn
zmien Kristu.
Il-bidla tal fidi lejn twemmin
tal bla bla bla
ta' konforma u kontroll
ta' socjeta mxekkla bin normi
ta' tradizjoni mejta.

It-taqliba nbidlet bejn ix-xemx u figura
mdemmija kollha tbatija.
Minflok Natura sirna hag'ohra
u nsejna dak li kien taghna.

Indikazzjonijiet ghalxejn fuq il-fuljett
jaghmlu differenza kbira fl-uzu li
tqassar kollox filghaxija flok
tqum kmieni l-ghada filoghodu.

Jien ghandi sbatax-il sena. Nahseb li jien student tipiku ta' Malta tal-lum. Nhobb nahseb hafna. U nitkellem fuq dak li nahseb. Jisimni Neville, nattendi l Junior College 2nd year u nistudja l-lingwi (ingliz u taljan a levels u malti,environmental science sociology intermediate. Naf li irrid nikteb u naf li jien cert fuq dan. Inhobb naqra hafna. L qari huwa l ikel tieghi. Qisni drugat ghal kotba. Il-letteratura l interess principali tieghi. Nohlom li nahdem fija. Li nkun Mdawwar b dinja tal kotba.