Poetry

Poem: Red Death

2006-02-27

Red death - hands bloodstainedof countless lives lostand only power gained.Red Party1 - poisoned heartsof a tempest unbridledfrom its tainted past.

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Poem: Red Death

2006-02-25

Red death - hands bloodstainedof countless lives lostand only power gained.Red “Party”1 - poisoned heartsof a tempest unbridledfrom its tainted past.

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Poem: How Many Crimes

2006-02-24

How many lives must be losthow many children must continue to suffer?How many hearts must be torn aparthow much hatred forged against another?How many voices must be silencedhow many crimes must be disguised?How much slander and widespread propagandahow many tears remain uncried?

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Poem: Blood Red No More

2006-02-16

Blood red smileshiding blood red liesblood red flagsunfurled to blood red skies.Blood red deathbehind blood red wallsblood red woundswhere blood red falls.

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Poem: China's Wall

2006-02-09

China’s wallever closer to its falla façade hiding endless crimes.Too many heartstorn wide apartwalls crumbling behind ‘Party’ lines.

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Poem: Where Is The Truth

2006-02-06

Behind a wall of liesvoices silencedthe truth disguised.Behind closed doorsa cast of shadowsdeception and more.Where is the truth?

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Poem: This Persecution

2006-02-05

The ‘Party’s’1 reign of brutalitywith no sense of humanitybringing China’s people to its knees.From waning moralityto murder - a mere formalitythis persecution by ruthless decree.

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Poem: Waiting for the New World

2006-02-03

Waiting for the new worldwhere paths forever shinehorizons awakened, no heart forsakenfrom darkest hours to gold refined.Waiting for the new daycome the dawn of truth ariseupon tranquil seas and realms to bebehold, the great turning of tides!

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Poem: Where is the Truth

2006-02-01

Behind a wall of liesvoices silencedthe truth disguised.Behind closed doorsa cast of shadowsdeception and more.Where is the truth?

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Poem: Lost at Sea

2006-01-31

Sailing far from the Tao,The sea found them siftedAnd when night blotted the skies,The skipper he found, that the boat, it had drifted “My God!” cried the crewmen,Our chance we have missed itAnd on the sea shall we drift,Over the next ten thousand yearsBefore out shall we walk,Of this long veil of tears

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Poem: When the Lotus Breaks the Frost

2006-01-25

I shall not stay my hand,Till I’ve torn down its red wallLest I betray the memoryOf those I’ve seen fall But I know as sure as I knowThat I draw my own breathThat who stands against this True LightShall be on the knell of his death

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Poem: A Daring Lead

2006-01-24

A daring lead in a grand play,He walks the earth like you or meWould on any regular day,No miracles to plainly see.

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Fun with Tang Dynasty Poetry: “When I Was Wealthy”

2006-01-22

Wang Fanzhi’s poems were widely spread at the beginning of the Tang Dynasty. However, some old-school littérateurs scorned its simple, colloquial language and regarded him as a “country bumpkin.” As a result, his poems later became extinct. A good portion of his preserved poems preached morality and condemned viciousness. Some of them are valuable works of art for they read like satires mocking the lack of humanity in the society. This poem is one of them.

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Poem: The Inn Keeper's Book, The Book of the Wheel

2006-01-19

Though making found coiled, 10,000 snakes lying,And tied to them as he was, could not break the bonds tyingExcept he discovered, there shined a light up aboveThe gracious Inn Keeper, descending, shape of a dove.

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Poem: The Lotus Flower

2006-01-15

Behind China’s darkest wallsbelow - horizons of greymany hearts torn and tatteredconcealed from the light of day.

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