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China the Red Plague

Earth, water, fire, metal, and sky... pummeled to submission. Refuse and decay, side by side, ground into submission. Once pristine mountains ranged high; Mongols in ascension riding beneath the starry skies, now, whipped into submission. Wild rivers now hemmed, tortured, bound; green trees, now sickened, brown; all bare, and skeletal, background; beneath soot filled skies, fouled. All the grandeur now gone sighs ground into submission. for Mao’s legacy cry, no course but submission.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2010




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Date: 2/28/2010 7:49:00 PM
Great write my friend. With expanding markets worldwide the inflow of too much money always makes country to think as a world power. Sometimes this easy excess of money misleads their leaders to not only spoil world system but even the lofty Mountain peaks Such a decision to make a road to Mount Everest to spoil the serene beauty created by God. Such wrong & hurting decisions can be taken by arrogant leaders only, where freedom is in peril but leaders are free. love Ravindra. Deb Guzi
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Date: 2/27/2010 9:15:00 AM
Aaaah, another one i really like, Deb. I will tell you what it is. People that do free verse often use symbols or imagery that I do not understand. I like to be able to easily understand poems, so I realize many free verse poems are sterling, but for me, it's this completely lucid type here that I love most to read!
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Date: 2/21/2010 2:30:00 AM
Can only say beautiful Deborah thanks Daniel
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Date: 2/20/2010 4:47:00 PM
Just wanted ALL to know I changed this from a misslabeled Sonnet (When I called it that I thought all a sonnet needed was 3 quatrains, two end lines and an end rhyme, I didn't know about the endrhyme pattern or the IAMBIC LOL) Now I'm trying to make it a ballad meter, got the 8/6/8/6 got the end rhyme pattern NOW..GAH! the IAMBIC's next (duck)
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