Long Self annihilation 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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Science classes in the sixties were different than they are now. While hippies
protested, science kept its calm. Matter was arranged in tidy molecules of
atoms with tiny electrons spinning around. Everything was in order and
could be...

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SCRIPT

Shout but no one can hear you especially when it’s a dream
Deep in the subconscious we pick up disturbing images to theme
Aggravation inside my mind fighting with its self-annihilation scream
Rotting corpses look at me and...

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Gotta drag the scag to get the h
the scabs wont heal
band beaten pillaged and practicly raped
\front man backrowed
what cant the book say inbetween trhe pages
the glitz the glamor
the sex on parade
the beatings the force of...

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Sin swept ... 
another soul carried away
on the winds of self-destruction
Wrong way living,
unwise decisions made with a gilded heart
Sin loves to appear 
as something other than what it truly is,
giving you a mask of illusion...

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Father, where are you?
Please give ear to my plea.
Those I started the race with have gone far,
And I am left far behind.
For my legs have grown feeble,
Too feeble to carry my weight,
That I fall with...

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Angels observe in un-articulated anguish from above,
 anxiety afflicted by appalling accelerated ambition of the aggregate  
that redefines the archaic, apocalyptical allure 
 driving humanity to its brink of active self annihilation;
those moments of...

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I turn on the news only to find it's morphed into a reality show
of well-rehearsed melodramas designed to sell time.
Alternative realities have manifested into hate,
there is blood on our streets!

Life's now all about the cash;...

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I looked into the mirror
HORROR- GROTESQUE!
And saw me looking back
GASP!
And quickly looked away.
Words alone, of all languages
in their many denominations
NONE of them describe
the sight of IT...me.

This would explain people’s reactions to me
Especially of late
The Nile...

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You walked a garden path, young heart holding intimate hand
You nurtured hopes of permanence in an impermanent world
Of you loved and belonged, and of you owning and retaining. 
Times changed but you didn’t know how
Storms...

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SALVATION


Salvation is too far away
I need it now not some other day
My soul needs releasing 
From a body tired and weary
 
I am already in my own living hell
Death will offer no more tragedies 
Only...

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Mary was a bright girl I knew,
She yearned for love from her dad,
She could not get it as her parents were divorced,
She felt lonely, and depressed.

She had hundreds of friends on social media and Facebook,
They...

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Suffocating
Paranoia   of
Incinerated
Tranquility

			Insanity 
			Is the new infection
		An epidemic 
	Of self annihilation  
	  To cleanse 
		Our souls in our own bloodshed
      A syndrome 
	   Of the...

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A pitiable life form
Wasted breath
Psychotic, brain-dead mind
Dilapidated, shadow of a heart
Tortured soul

Volcanic emotion erupting
Havoc wreaking pain destroying the fast fading remains of a living corpse
Malicious, bloodied tears escaping flawed resistance
Fiery imperceptible ashen rain
Melting flesh and...

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The other side of life behind the barbed
                           ...

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Drawn from chaos Eros spell
Cupids arrow lovers swell
ought naught the stomach
.......full of knots,
can't eat,can't sleep emotion weeps

Crime of passion hotly contested
inner strength has meltdown bested
to have,too hold obsessive possession
the lovers twisted self annihilation.....

Bow string taut...

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This is what I am enjoined to be:
Hyphenated !
Bound to vacillate between self-aggrandizement and self-annihilation
I straddle two unrecognizable worlds
only to find solace in none
I am the begetter of my malaise
all made of ungraspable memories and...

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Wine punched with tears...
& agony of some years...
Makes a deadly combination...
Simply enough for self-annihilation...!

Moist memories...maddening moments...
A multitude of heart-breaking sentiments...
Rare is such painful intoxication...
That resembles a silent assassination...!

When tides erupt in the seas within...
It hardly...

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Just a mercenary
Unethical with greed
 Imitating plastic
Modern kind of breed
Logic left disjointed
Blinded by corrupt
Sheer selfishness of others
Merely made messed up!
The missing link on the brink
Of self-annihilation
Digested poor examples
And miscommunication.
Though I have compassion
For the gullible and plain
The...

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I've traveled alone through this web we call life, one ending leading to a new beginning 
Living a lie of convenience only to be rejected with minimum clarification
Was I so intoxicated by the rivers of...

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