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Winter Looming I set forth Seeking droplets on the pavement Greener bushes on the side I hug my pillow Breathing sweet incense Feeling your velvety skin And nimble hands so arduous On my ego Winter Looming I set forth Seeking droplets on the pavement Greener bushes on the side Staring at your pale face Shiny eyes That speak volumes of blank clammy pages Of prose that’s never inked Of Poetry, that’s never shown The light of day Winter Looming I set forth Seeking droplets on the pavement Greener bushes on the side Arms wide open I welcome Your darken skies Wash away my slippery cheeks With hope of flowery blossom Around the ides of March Ray de Bono 27.09.08

I am not against Strikes. I am against Thugs! 1. How in a modern EU country are certain things allowed to happen? 2. Where are the Police + Armed Forces? 3. What will be the implications on Brand Malta?? 4. Is it not illegal to kidnap a Person off a bus, beat him and to block a Street with a vehicle? Was anyone arrested - with all the witnesses around?? Solution: The government should invite other EU transport providers to come and operate emergency services in Malta. The government should offer them and passengers alike security to immediately restore a safe transport service in Malta for all, and quick. Message to Strikers: Get an education. Nobody is above the law. All other businesses have competition, even pastizzi vendors - YOU are not any more special than the rest of us. PS: 'Bass' (pronounced exactly like the English word ' bus' in Maltese is slang for 'to fart', or to put in mildly, to 'release air' . Ray de Bono for Dmax Online Blog

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Where does Racism stop? S Africa violence: 'Screams haunt me' Several thousand foreigners have fled South Africa after days of violent attacks by angry mobs. Among them are many Zimbabweans who prefer to risk the violence there than stay in South Africa. Thabiso, a 36 year-old Zimbabwean woman, had to flee the township of Thembisa near Johannesburg, after a series of xenophobic attacks. I was awoken by the sound of screaming on Monday. I realised they had set alight a shack belonging to a Mozambican immigrant. He tried to escape the fire. But the residents were armed with all sorts of traditional weapons and AK-47 rifles. They shouted: "Umbambe engabaleki", which means "Don't let him run away" in Zulu. They threw a brick at his head and he fell down. The mob caught up with him, doused him with petrol and threw him back into the burning shack. The screams of the burning Mozambican still haunt me. When I close my eyes to try to sleep, I see the man scream...

Those shadows what difference do i make in God's fascinating plan... playing with stars milking away the years if I am anything, what am I? Not a speck in the tide of time not a spark in the abyss of hallow skies, galaxies that inhabit the universe what difference does it make to be left cold life or dead? to disintegrate into the soil and become one with elements that fathered me... if my nest grew chilled and my arms hold themselves in eerie silence as I laugh in agony at the mass ice age that flames around ...what difference do I make in God's fascinating plan? and who cares if not the shadows that accompany me in this life bred without our consent ...their eyes flickering as tears fly and shine magic wonders reflecting a reality that we cherish and dream in surreal hope of a life that outlives the morge Shadows smile or cry, they are real as they speak my heart and long for my arms your arms, you, ...whom I don't know though I wish to hold what difference would all thi...

Here and now if nice is precious more than years ago where bliss is not more than a frill in my memory that alters and falters by time Here and now is dear too, as I taste, smell, see and feel it hear it playing mellow as we speak Here and now is really only what I have as then, is nothing but plan, and chance Here and Now is by then my new charms to recall, as I smile and thank the moment, that's already gone. Ray de Bono 17.04.08 Image rights: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Double-alaskan-rainbow.jpg

Ode to our Architectural Prowess The many pre -historic structures that we have sprouting here and there - are amazing reminders of these island's antiquity and the long standing civilization of their diverse inhabitants. The medieval limestone walls and bastions that fortify our cities, the old houses that core our villages, the baroque churches that are scattered all over the Maltese islands - aren't they charming and fitting to our weather, environment and temperament ? These structures epitomise an age, and in many ways fossilise it. But don't tell me that most structures erected after from the 1970's onwards , the limestone orgy of Malta's leftist age, the so-called housing for all, have left us with an outer core of ugliness littering our towns and villages; the ominous housing estates - the shear sight of which - gives me a bad mood, now shape most of our urban landscape. Whats more is the fact that for a supposedly noble cause, the use of limestone was m...

Malta applies to rejoin PFP Read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partnership_for_Peace The Cabinet has decided that Malta should reactivate its membership in the Partnership for Peace, the government said. Malta had joined the PFP in 1995 but withdrew its membership in 1996, following a change in government. The government said that joining the PFP will not effect Malta's neutrality but will enhance its participation within the EU. Moreover, the Armed Forces of Malta will also benefit from the membership since it will be able to participate in different exercises such as humanitarian and rescue exercises. The fact that Malta was not part of the PFP was creating hindrances since the government did not have access to confidential documents that the NATO and other PFP members exchanged between them. Source: http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20080320/local/malta-applies-to-rejoin-pfp

Kontu informati? Did you know? Eravate informati? Kidnapped Iraqi archbishop dead from: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7294078.stm Archbishop Rahho's body was found buried near MosulPaulos Faraj Rahho, the Chaldean Catholic archbishop in Iraq who was kidnapped last month, has been found dead near the northern city of Mosul. An Iraqi police officer and morgue official confirmed reports that the archbishop's body had been found buried near Mosul, where he had been abducted. The Vatican said Pope Benedict XVI was profoundly moved and saddened by Archbishop Rahho's death. He was kidnapped soon after he left Mass in Mosul on 29 February. According to the SIR Catholic news agency, the kidnappers told Iraqi church officials on Wednesday that Archbishop Rahho was very ill and, later on Wednesday, that he was dead. It is not clear whether he was killed, or died of natural causes. Nobody has claimed responsibility for his death. The archbishop was the latest in a long line o...

Tomorrow Beckons I am scared and my limits haunt me as when I think I know them I am petrified as they fall short or rather shorter than my Ego dictates. So I wonder and stare pale into the oblivious tomorrow and the surprises it holds. Ray de Bono 21.02.08

Ma Nafx! ................................ I don’t know Ma nafx I am not in love I am captivated Enthralled I am a collection of photos shifting in the wind Clapping my hands against sighs of approval as I doze off thinking Afloat on dreams of caverns that… Hugging me dear Oh dear! ….twinkling stars How I wish I can stay there I don’t know Ma Nafx Ray de Bono 18.09.07 ................................

...and both MLP and PN Approve. How come? Read link: http://images.google.com.mt/imgres?imgurl=http://www.libya-almostakbal.com/Reports/June2006/human_rw_busleem280606_files/image001.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.libya-almostakbal.com/Reports/June2006/human_rw_busleem280606en.html&h=300&w=300&sz=18&hl=en&start=10&tbnid=PQueHHtXBB_fXM:&tbnh=116&tbnw=116&prev=/images%3Fq%3DLibya%2BHuman%2BRights%26gbv%3D2%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den mage001.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.libya-almostakbal.com/Reports/June2006/human_rw_busleem280606en.html&h=300&w=300&sz=18&hl=en&start=10&tbnid=PQueHHtXBB_fXM:&tbnh=116&tbnw=116&prev=/images%3Fq%3DLibya%2BHuman%2BRights%26gbv%3D2%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den Libya: June 1996 Killings at Abu Salim Prison A Human Rights Watch Backgrounder 28/06/2006 In the summer of 1996, stories began to filter out of Libya about a mass k...

I Wonder When it is my turn to die, Will I ponder on my days afar? Will I yearn for your arms and cry? When it is my turn to die, Will I despair in a lonely chill? Will I hold your hands in mine? When it is my turn to die, Will I close my eyes and sigh? Will lost loved ones linger on the other side? Ray de Bono 18.07.07

The problem with illegal immigrants in Malta is not the illegal immigrants themselves but the Maltese people! Why I like Daphne's Reasoning... (Thumbs Up!) There isn ’t a single EU member state that hasn ’t got problems with illegal immigration, and here come the whining Maltese, behaving as though illegal immigration was invented just for Malta. There are illegal immigrants pouring in to the EU from every point on its borders except the Atlantic coast, and even there hopeful immigrants are working their way in from Morocco to the tip of Spain and Portugal. Albanians have been pouring in to Greece and Italy for years. Bulgarians and Romanians, before they became part of the EU, were streaming in and making their way all over. Russians and Serbians are everywhere. The big cities of Europe are chock-a-block with Chinese. Almost all these people want to make their way to the United Kingdom as the ultimate pot of gold at the end of their rainbow. They try desperate measures to get in,...

Expats a political force in Spain Independent political parties dominated by expatriates - many of them British - are campaigning for the first time in Spain's local elections. Mick Blake (left) is vice-president of one of the expat-dominated partiesThe BBC's Danny Wood examines this new phenomenon in San Fulgencio, in the southeastern province of Alicante. Never before have European expats taken to the Spanish political arena like this. They are the backbone of new political parties that have more expats on their lists of candidates than locally-born Spaniards. Since the 1960s, the beaches, sun and affordable fiesta lifestyle have drawn millions of Europeans to Spain for holidays. And not just holidays - there are now about 1.5 million expats resident in Spain, mainly British and Germans, many concentrated on the Costa Blanca around Valencia and Alicante, on the Costa del Sol and in the Balearic Islands. For more than a decade, European Union residents have had the right to vo...

1. One proves he/she is starving, has no other subsistence, no other alternative food source. One should not allow anyone to starve, when there are so many wild birds around, ey? 2. All hunters must prove that they are not littering. Seriously, anyone can get fines for littering so why are hunters allowed to shoot thousands of lead pellets all over the place, and get away with it? I mean, lead is known to be cancerogenic, and with the amounts dumped in our soil every year we must have the a sauciest lethal cocktail seeping into our water table and turning up into our vegetables...No wonder we have such high cancer rates on the island! Only if these 2 points are rigorously met will I tolerate hunting in Malta. Ray de Bono

In Malta we are blessed with an abundance on sun and wind energy, not to mention wave energy. This surely presents us with potentially suitable alternative energy sources given we (and forget about the government, people), WE the Maltese ourselves come up with feasible options. We cannot keep depending on our governments. We can take the initiative. We can succeed. It takes a good, bright idea, and loads of motivation. We can do it. Portugal managed. Why not us? Portugal opens major solar plant The solar power plant is based in one of Europe's sunniest areas of Portugal and is probably the world's most powerful solar power plant. The array of electricity-generating solar panels covers about 60 hectares (150 acres) in one of Europe's sunniest areas in southern Portugal. Officials say the plant should produce enough energy to supply 8,000 homes. The plant is part of Portugal's efforts to cut its reliance on imported fuel and reduce emissions of greenhouse gases that...

We have been there. Fought potentially oblivious of forming an integral part of the tapestry of Europe, yet our forefathers died on the battle ground that has morphed the Europe that is today. And now it’s the 50t h Anniversary. A call for celebration, of the peace secured, of people united, of sovereignty shared, of shared differences, languages, races and livelihoods. We are new in the Union but as age old Europeans we have shared a common history to most of our neighbours; as a Roman province, a Moorish conquest, a Norman liberated land, a Spanish dominion, a reluctant Knights base, a French dominion and ultimately, a willing British Colony. Irrespective of their geographical and numeric disadvantages, the Maltese too have paid a dear price and in many humble yet instrumental ways, moulded European history in its present shape. At the soft underbelly of Europe lies our semi desert island, over populated, thriving economy, petty environmental standards, peripheral if not pathetic ...