Where South China waters churn heavy and wide,
A widow rose up with the ocean's own tide.
No emperor’s decree could govern her hand,
She ruled forty thousand across sea and land.
Her laws were of iron, her word absolute—
No plunder unshared, and no thief with his loot.
With hundreds of junks bearing canvas of red,
The empires of Europe beheld her with dread.
The Qing and the Portuguese launched their attack,
Yet her fleet in the bay drove the battle-line back.
She outfought the crown and she outmaneuvered the state,
Till they offered her peace at the emperor's gate.
She surrendered her sails, but retained all her gold,
A pirate supreme who grew peaceful and old.
Though dynasties crumbled and admirals fell,
The terror of Canton lives on in the swell.
819.
Friend of China ni Pres. Duterte
May 8 magagandang nagawa
Si Pres. Duterte sa bansa
“Friend of China” ay isa na rito
Kaibigan ng Tsina ang bansang ito
Sa kabila ng agawan sa teritoryo
Tsina ay kaibigan parin tayo
“Friend to All, Enemy to None”
Kay PDuterte, bansa natin ay ganyan.
-03/28/2022
(Dumarao)
*8 Magagandang Nagawa ni Pres. Duterte sa Bansa
(77th Birthday of PDuterte)
The wave of Democrat Socialism
Sweeping America today
Is no different than China’s Cultural Revolution
The DSA want to abolish (not reform)
Police, prisons, borders, the Senate,
The presidency, and Supreme Court
Because they are all remnants of an old order.
So just like the Red Guard youth
They seek to destroy “The Four Olds”
To usher in a New Wave of chaos
A tsunami of Hope and Change
To make way for the shining Utopia
That will of course naturally arise.
It didn’t work in China,
But that’s just because they didn’t do it right…
Get ready America,
Here comes some righteous change.
Don’t hold your breath, just hunker down,
Pull your family close
And keep your powder dry.
(8/8/26)
India used to
be wonder land; now China
is land of wonders!
710.
Prayer to Mary:
Our Lady in China
Hail Mary, patron of certain places
You are our Mother, our Queen, our Patroness
The Our Lady of Donglu – Our Lady in China
Bless this place & its people, oh Ave Maria
Take care of China, our beloved Mother
By God's will, be its nurturer now & hereafter
Look after China, our respected Queen
By God's power, be its protector against darkness & sin.
Amen.
-10/10/2019
(Dumarao)
*Prayers to Mary as the Our Lady of Special Places
China, my secret love-hate yin-yang mistress
Not the tea cup and platter kind
But the expansive yellow blob on the map
Taking up half of Asia kind.
In other words, the actual
Flesh and blood kind,
The kind that stretches back millennia
Before Christ’s birth,
Originator of perhaps the oldest continuous
If not always best civilization
Rich in arts and culture, natural history
And sheer grandeur of such vastness.
But also at the very same time
A land of horror and terror, conquering hordes
Concentration camps and The Great Leap Forward
Organ harvesting, election interference, Covid 19
Birthright citizenship tourism, data hacking,
And the great corrosive flood of Fentanyl.
How can such a place that is so wonderful
Filled with a billion wonderful souls
Be such a horror, a sucking black hole
On a fixed smiling face of death and deceit,
Saving face as they say
For what? The hope of peace and change?
When in reality what’s needed is a complete cut.
Let it collapse under it’s own hubris,
Let it go, let it sink, let it rot in hell
And at least, at last, in memoriam,
Remember and exalt what it once was,
And not get fooled again.
(7/27/26)
You and me we could take a slow boat to China
don't need an ocean liner it's only a stone's throw
where nothing would be finer
than to see all the tea in Shanghai flow
and share a Chinese takeaway in a hideaway
so if I know you that's where we'll go
and we'll run in the rain or sit soaking up the sun
there's only one thing when all is said and done
I'm the kind of feller who shares his umbrella
no strings attached let's see if we're matched
and if we're matched we'll have us some fun
it's no big to-do I only want fun with you
fun in the sun or under the moon
take it on the run whichever way it comes
or me and you too could sail slowly down the Nile
smiling all the while like a pair of crocodiles
and when we reach Cairo wave and say, "Hello,"
to the sphinx and the old Pharaoh
we'll keep it casual no 'putting on the Ritz'
come be with me then we'll see
if the shoe fits and if the shoe fits
when all is said and done yes it's true
I have to say every night and day
I only want fun with you
Following a summit with President Xi Jinping in Beijing, President Trump declined to explicitly state if U.S. troops would defend Taiwan, telling reporters that he wants both Taiwan and China to "cool it a little bit" and questioning the necessity of fighting a war 9,500 miles away. A proposed $14 billion US arms package for Taiwan remains on hold.
Wheeler-dealer Donald Trump
All's for sale, what a champ
Friends are change worth a dime
He don't care, piece of slime
Sell Taiwan, Iran, Ukraine
Send no arms gets people slain
Talks are cheap, deceitful talks
Promise something and then walks
China suddenly a friend
Pile of contracts to no end
Mr. Pres, you lose your face
Every move is a disgrace
May 16, 2026
CREDIBILITY
THE U S HAS LOST IT SEE
CHINA LOOKS WITH GLEE
Come and see,
the big bright red and pink bee.
She is sitting on a flower of yellow with glee,
eating crackers with warm brie.
Look the angelic butterfly is on one knee,
is she making a plea?
Come and see,
the orange grasshopper is pouring rose tea.
For you and for me,
in China flowered cups under the oak tree.
This fun dream I do not want to flee,
but I really need to pee.
let me lean into me winnings educate bout you Achilies so I can send you spinning, with threads strung on me limbs
thin thinner thinnest billyboard me insecurities it ain't an issue but it really hit a nerve now me is training, try me you will witness the power and maybe live to tell the tale
couldn't hand me a little peace handle me sweet though me not entitled, but it's a request
jelly jelly bout you lack of freely used cuss knowledge I love the impact and damage, one day might mirror it and die
"do things my own way darling" it ain't easy I don't got the capacity cause I choose to let you I choose to let you choose though you never respect me oh
darling smooth unshattered like the legs of a virgin sharp, and useless when throw down so never miss that instructing
when me is talking try not to butt in or push a button cause I'm random who knows I might charge you like bison one of kind but always on your mind like a floating web babe learn to respect me before I lose what's left of this me inside
TAKE WORLD AS IT IS
CARNEY CHINA MAKE UP KISS
CARNEY NO NOVICE
Silence is gold.
And gold shines brightest
in the dark.
They build
without applause.
They plan
without noise.
What is made
in silence
cannot be easily broken.
Sun Tzu still whispers:
Become formless.
Become soundless.
Direct fate
without being seen.
Appear weak
when strong.
Appear strong
when weak.
Power hides best
when it kneels.
Confucius taught them:
Humility
is the root
of permanence.
While others shout,
they measure.
While others threaten,
they prepare.
Empires collapse
from pride.
Not from patience.
They sharpen no words—
only time.
They do not beg history.
They wait for it.
The dragon does not roar
unless cornered.
It prefers peace.
But it remembers
how to breathe fire.
And in that quiet,
unseen breath,
an empire
is being written.
best kept secret in China
I am laughing now
because all the secrets there are best kept
none of them ever get told
the Chinese people I know keep everything a secret
they are not loose-lipped like my relatives
best kept secret in China
Longyou Caves
twenty-four hundred chambers
chiseled out under a large waterway
with steps and pillars
intricate, detailed, amazing workmanship
who made them? Who lived there? No one will ever know.
A Chinese Sonnet
The fog glides softly over the river' sigh.
A fisher heals his net of dreaming;
He knows the star is not for catching.
A heron curtsies where the water bends.
Its wings remember the spirits of ancestors.
Each ripple replies softly-''All ends,And yet
nothing truly ends''
The oracle rests alongside the current,
Perusing stillness,not words in the flow.
'' Truly'',she says ''is what the heart concedes,
not what the tongue commands?''
Dusk moves down,beacons shiver on the river.
The river keeps the mysteries of those who listen.
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