Long Reeducation Poems

With my Uyghur poetry translations I am trying to build awareness of the plight of Uyghur poets who are being sent to Chinese "reeducation" concentration camps.

Elegy
by Perhat Tursun
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Asylum seekers, will...

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Perhat Tursun

Perhat Tursun (1969-) is one of the foremost living Uyghur language poets, if he is still alive. Born and raised in Atush, a city in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Tursun began writing poetry...

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That's queer!
said transculturing Curiosity,
peering out Her sacred big-boxed window
panes of misty white fog
gently covering her view
of upstream tiding River's
mysterious grey
reverse time flow

Sometimes,

OK, really too often,
I could use more courageous exercise

But, Other times
I'm more content, inviting...

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What sustains life are sacred values,
so what cannot sustain becomes pathological.

Matriarchy is about nurturing and care-giving,
protecting life and conserving cooperative energies;
yet that implies that patriarchy devolves to controlling
and competitive care-receiving,
destroying life as WinLose necessary
to violently...

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Open polynomial eco-metric universes,
please, not closed,
but multiculturing systems
Zero-Core RealTime Care
for 4D GeoBalanced SpaceTime,
bilaterally harmonic now,
between past and future trending relationships,
WinWin, regenerational
WinLose, through
LoseLose, decompositional
through anti-compositioned.

History's regenerate cooperative
and decompositionally too-competitive commercialized YangDish,
speak together in fractal 
double-binding 
appositional...

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If we could sing
of futures searched

If we might ring
with resonant sacred research,

We might find within each inside thing
a place Future co-invites,
outside reconnects
ego-remembers
from dreams of Ancient Paradise

Each unfolding chapter heading
becomes retitled
unentitled revival
as we pass

Renaming Future Searches
as...

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We started slow and old-growth
yet steady.

The Senior Democrats
and Republicans
and Libertarians
and Independents
hosted a Community Integrity budgeting party.

Party favors were ballots
with options for small,
medium,
large,
and extra large service sectors
beginning with agriculture and permaculture support
and ending with zoning and...

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Q:  Would the US's government, under Biden/Harris, also want to use: Search and
      Seizures affecting the bank accounts of Bible purchasing Christians?

A:  Yes, of course that would also...

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Why does BDS (Boycott Sanction and Divest in Israel) have to do with the radical Islamic nation Iran and its terrorists group of Hamas? From the Ivy League East Coast university of Yale to even...

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The culture of any education system,
including a national multi-mediated,
possibly under-medicated,

Education/miseducation
Healthy/pathological
in-between system/chaos
communication relationships
include a "PLEASE SHUT UP"
non-verbal divest of attention
remove from esteemed status,
degenerate into lesser caste
class system
of ignore
and deplore messages.

We speak this language
in silent 
stunning
shunning.

Would that...

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He had a Trump sign on his front lawn.
I was concerned, so naturally I set fire to his house.

She told us that men cannot give birth,
Naturally, obviously I was concerned, upset,
and had her committed for...

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Bicameral education
recreates feelings of deeply safe integrity
and widely sustainable win/win nonviolent communication

Within
and between
green communion experiential
mindbody
healthwealth integral
organic systems
whole
holistic
openly regenerating

Holy Ego/EcoSystemic 
health redemptive
safe sustainable whole wealth potential.

To paraphrase Nancy Pelosi,
Our educational strength
is our multicultural 
inter-religious
indigenous 
universal wisdom

While...

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I say and say it again
Until I am red in the face
Foaming at the mouth
Peeing in my pants mad 
That we are the party of love
And joy
And tolerance
And inclusion
And while we’re at it
Slavery, reeducation camps,...

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