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| April 2006 |
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| Poem: Sujiatun [08.04.2006] |
How long must they suffer
in your silence
how long must the innocent
be subjected to your violence?
Your darkest crimes
once out of sight
now revealed to the world
the truth coming to light. |
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| Poem: The World is Watching [04.04.2006] |
The world is watching you now
countless tears from ruthless crimes
a ‘Party’s’ reign steeped in lies and shame
as the world is watching you hide. |
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| Poem: The Darkest Lair [03.04.2006] |
Grey walls of China hiding countless crimes
a ‘Party’s’ history red to tears
with no rule of law, a star fading to fall
this spectre’s end drawing ever near. |
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| March 2006 |
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| Poem: This is Murder [31.03.2006] |
This is murder in the first degree
This is blood-lust by the ‘Party’s’ decree
This is China in its darkest hour
This is hope turning sour |
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| Poem: Tide and Heart [28.03.2006] |
No matter this tempest
and darkest hour descended
traversing China’s every shore.A matter of time
before truth’s prevailing tides
transforming hearts forever more. |
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| Poem: Passages of Time [27.03.2006] |
Through passages of time
and clouded hearts
through darkest days
come moments of light.When China awakens
and truth prevails
darkness, a mere moment
to aeon's in flight. |
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| Poem: Opening One's Eyes [21.03.2006] |
Blind as we're born
A world lost in delusion
Men find the old ways forlorn and forgotten
Instead find alluring golden roads leading confusion Scarce can he tell,
What among the sand is a pearl
Trading precious his own worth
That he might win the world. |
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| Poem: Following the Great Way [18.03.2006] |
Always follow the Great Way,
Though dark seems the light of day,
Though heavy seem tired feet,
No time for a moment's seat.On the path I made my way,
Mud and grass filled the long day,
The stream whispered soft to me,
"Over the hill, you will see." |
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| Poem: Dafa Dizi [16.03.2006] |
You are the seeds
for a brighter future
dreams from a golden past
finding hope through
the darkest of Ages
in moments where shadows are cast. |
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| Poem: Moments to Eternity [15.03.2006] |
Moments to eternity
triumph to tragedy
from darkest night
to brightest dawnBetween heart and mind
mountain and valley
from cold of winter
a new spring is born |
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| Poem: Where Shadows Fall No More [13.03.2006] |
The lives of countless millions
shadows behind China’s walls
come a light forever shining
where shadows fall no moreInside these darkest corners
tempering heart and mind
soon the promise of a new day
where no shadows or walls defined. |
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| Poem: Will You [12.03.2006] |
Will you - brave the cold
the frozen sea?Will you - climb the summit
the high mountain? |
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| Poem: A New Chapter [06.03.2006] |
A climb to summit
a path beyond the world
a way for many hearts
a sea of sails unfurled.A call to courage
a light behind the cold
a fall of shadows
a new chapter to unfold. |
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| Poem: Darkest Skies Depart [04.03.2006] |
Of clouds passing
darkest skies paling
when worlds awaken
from realms of lesser hearts.Of shadows diminishing
new horizons dawning
where tides turn
and darkest skies finally depart. |
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| Poem: The Red Dragon Slayer [03.03.2006] |
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The red dragon dives through the night,
Eating or killing those below,
Seems like fifty years without light,
The scared young man approaches slow. II.
Twilight village, quiet morning,
His statement nailed on a pole hangs,
The first daylight soon adorning,
"I quit your dark Communist gang." |
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| Poem: No Longer Worlds Apart [02.03.2006] |
Between clouds
and darkened skies
a pervading winter
and a coldest heart.
As this season wanes
and brighter realms emerge
come lotus or sails unfolding
no longer worlds apart. |
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| February 2006 |
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| Poem: Red Death [27.02.2006] |
Red death - hands bloodstained
of countless lives lost
and only power gained.Red Party1 - poisoned hearts
of a tempest unbridled
from its tainted past. |
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| Poem: Red Death [25.02.2006] |
Red death - hands bloodstained
of countless lives lost
and only power gained.Red “Party”1 - poisoned hearts
of a tempest unbridled
from its tainted past. |
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| Poem: How Many Crimes [24.02.2006] |
How many lives must be lost
how many children must continue to suffer?
How many hearts must be torn apart
how much hatred forged against another?How many voices must be silenced
how many crimes must be disguised?
How much slander and widespread propaganda
how many tears remain uncried? |
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| Poem: Blood Red No More [16.02.2006] |
Blood red smiles
hiding blood red lies
blood red flags
unfurled to blood red skies.Blood red death
behind blood red walls
blood red wounds
where blood red falls. |
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| Poem: China's Wall [09.02.2006] |
China’s wall
ever closer to its fall
a façade hiding endless crimes.Too many hearts
torn wide apart
walls crumbling behind ‘Party’ lines. |
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| Poem: Where Is The Truth [06.02.2006] |
Behind a wall of lies
voices silenced
the truth disguised.Behind closed doors
a cast of shadows
deception and more.Where is the truth? |
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| Poem: This Persecution [05.02.2006] |
The ‘Party’s’1 reign of brutality
with no sense of humanity
bringing China’s people to its knees.From waning morality
to murder - a mere formality
this persecution by ruthless decree.
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| Poem: Waiting for the New World [03.02.2006] |
Waiting for the new world
where paths forever shine
horizons awakened, no heart forsaken
from darkest hours to gold refined.Waiting for the new day
come the dawn of truth arise
upon tranquil seas and realms to be
behold, the great turning of tides! |
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| Poem: Where is the Truth [01.02.2006] |
Behind a wall of lies
voices silenced
the truth disguised.
Behind closed doors
a cast of shadows
deception and more.Where is the truth? |
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| January 2006 |
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| Poem: Lost at Sea [31.01.2006] |
Sailing far from the Tao,
The sea found them sifted
And 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 it
And on the sea shall we drift,
Over the next ten thousand years
Before out shall we walk,
Of this long veil of tears |
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| Poem: When the Lotus Breaks the Frost [25.01.2006] |
I shall not stay my hand,
Till I’ve torn down its red wall
Lest I betray the memory
Of those I’ve seen fall But I know as sure as I know
That I draw my own breath
That who stands against this True Light
Shall be on the knell of his death |
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| Poem: A Daring Lead [24.01.2006] |
A daring lead in a grand play,
He walks the earth like you or me
Would on any regular day,
No miracles to plainly see. |
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| Fun with Tang Dynasty Poetry: “When I Was Wealthy” [22.01.2006] |
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 [19.01.2006] |
Though making found coiled, 10,000 snakes lying,
And tied to them as he was, could not break the bonds tying
Except he discovered, there shined a light up above
The gracious Inn Keeper, descending, shape of a dove. |
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| Poem: The Lotus Flower [15.01.2006] |
Behind China’s darkest walls
below - horizons of grey
many hearts torn and tattered
concealed from the light of day. |
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| Poem: Quelled [14.01.2006] |
Evil come quelled
with darkness dispelled
neither storm nor sea
to rage against China’s heart.Come light unfold
now truth behold
where clouds of such crimes
forever depart. |
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| Poem: Arduous [13.01.2006] |
Upon a boundless journey
an arduous path
climbing steeper, narrower
as the end draws near.Upon a timeless voyage
through darkest oceans
hearts ascending, awakening
beyond realms of fear. |
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| Poem: Guideth my Hand [10.01.2006] |
Great is this path,
This path that thee’ve taught
But narrow’s the way -
And straight is the gate that we walk. |
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| Fun with Tang Dynasty Poetry: The 23rd Poem from “A Collection of 38 Poems of Sentiments about Experiences in Life” [09.01.2006] |
Chen Ziang used a lot of word plays in the poem. He wrote about the precious emerald bird in every line, but in fact he was talking about himself. Despite the fact he was filled with sorrow, he managed to express his feelings in a non-emotional tone, which manifested the generous, forgiving and virtuous demeanour of a gentleman. As a result, this poem makes one sad, but does not make one burst into tears with rage. |
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| Poem: In a Tranquil Place [07.01.2006] |
Leaves falling like feathers
finding a touch of earth
where bird songs weave
under a blue of sky.
With daylight racing
to its waning hour
another time one threshold home
somewhere in a tranquil place. |
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| Poem: Sanctuary [05.01.2006] |
The terror and its many talons
a spectre most cruel and ever callous
when the world’s eyes turn to see the lies
truth to find sanctuary above tides of malice. |
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| Poem: 'Party' Lies [03.01.2006] |
The ‘Party’ is falling
the truth is calling
China’s long winter
now coming to pass.
One history of lies
no longer disguised
a new chapter
unfolding at last! |
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| Poem: Skies of Blue [02.01.2006] |
Towards skies of blue
from darkest hues
China’s Communist Party
soon to reign no more.The clouds are parting
the seas are calming
a world emerging
towards brightest shores. |
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| Poem: Lotus in Flower [01.01.2006] |
Watching the world
with many sails furled
yet a light emerges
in China’s darkest hour.The world awakens
truth no longer forsaken
China’s heart to blossom
like a lotus in flower. |
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| December 2005 |
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| Poem: Realms of the Divine [23.12.2005] |
From the human world
to realms of the divine
from the coarsest of sand
to gold refined. |
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| Poem: From Ways of Old [22.12.2005] |
From every corner
of the cosmos we come
here midst the shadows
of this human domain. |
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| Poem: The Last Winter Fades [19.12.2005] |
Where mountains rise steepest
skies beckon brightest
worlds from languishing to luminous.When the last winter fades
and truth no longer a masquerade
hearts come wide to wondrous. |
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| Poem: Precious Land [13.12.2005] |
Every moment
another tear falls,
another life in China torn apart. |
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| Poem: Rise [11.12.2005] |
If only the world could see
what the CCP1 is doing,
if only the world could see
their countless crimes.
When the evil fades
and reigns no more,
China’s new dawn
will come to rise. |
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| Poem: Labour of Light [04.12.2005] |
How light must labour
to dispel these forces of dark
clouding heart and worlds of consciousness. |
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| November 2005 |
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| Poem: Of Tender Air [30.11.2005] |
Of tender air
and delicate flight
of many colours
in quivering motion.
A memory of realms
and wingful heights
where worlds unfolding
from one heart’s devotion. |
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| Poem: First Light [22.11.2005] |
Here to awaken
shine at first light
a journey of aeons
destined to greater shores
turning all tides of night. |
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| Poem: Oceans Deep [21.11.2005] |
Oceans deep inside
a drop of water
traversing pebbles
come land and countless shores.
Firmaments unseen
behind our mortal frame
where worlds shine into millions
from moments to forever more. |
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| Poem: Coming to Light [12.11.2005] |
The darkest matter fading
myriads of worlds cascading
new heavens now coming to light.With compassion come all
unfolding where shadows fall
awakening hearts forever bright. |
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