GEORGE FALUDY'S TIME
(1910 -2006)

George Faludy
with your love
for Villon
in Hungary
persecuted
for your ancestry
translated Heine
and vilified
by Nazi Germany,
translated Erasmus
for he too was civilized,
and not dated
but universal in time
like Moses and Jesus,
so George,
don't be surprised,
after every ism is gone
as every herbal mimosa
leaves the chorus of earth
and your mature prism
has been critically analyzed
to the satiric laughter
that the world's media
bestows
on less politically orthodox
who would not understand,
imprisoned like a Socrates
given to the hemlocks
we believe in your charisma
George Faludy,
as a miracle poet
of blessed memory
has been finally recognized.