Long Smuggle 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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We are all Nameless



What else is there to do
but to tell you who I am,
but most of all,
what I wish to find.

I am not the cavalier of the sun, 
but the caveat of phantasm.

I do...

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•	Warning:  This is a brutal truth and if you don’t want to hear about what is happening lately regarding things you may not have heard or do not want to believe, than please ignore...

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don't you watch the news i ask?
arent we at war?
who is our enemy again...
and who do you work for?
why do i have no hot water?
why is my window cracked?
why can't i do my laundry?

sound like...

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My husband is my hero not just 
my hero he's indeed a real Vietnam 
war hero I adore thevway he protects 
me basically I suffered ptsd anxiety 
disorder from wearing wires pregnant 
for the FBI...

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This poem is not meant to be a speech nor is it written to offend or give anyone blame.
It just a mere observation of how today leaders choose to bring civilasation back into the slave...

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It’s what gets me up in the morning
It motivates me every day
Coffee
A normal person might say my dog
Or having to use the bathroom
Okay, a sad normal person would say that
Some things should just be legalized
Like...

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I am stumbling along the beaten down path and struggling to get out of the dark, there are some boulders in the way and I have to work up extra energy to roll them away....

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Contrary to dream

Did they know
If they're still alive
Weep and cry over the ground

For the convenience of mankind
With so many ideas and challenges
Many inventions and products developed
It is used to threaten survival.

The harmony between the new...

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By God
of Earth and Eden
In this life
I have a pencil
Bitter and sweet
Heavy and light
I will ink for a while
but then I must buckle
for my boat to set sail
into the Island of Light.


I will wrestle and...

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Water flows from the silent dam
With a crying noise of joy to slam 
The awaiting shouts of closed mouth 
Skydiving eyes in prayers closed northsouth 
The running around of hurray hurrying

Hot food feeds the cup...

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Assailed and held prisoner in my bedroom, I fret
Wondering why mad blood seized my head
Inserting an undue threat
Concealed in the seal of the thread

Running through a bevy of thoughts
Silly at best, folly at worst
Waltzing in...

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The Trolls of NeighCassier smiled
as they undermined.
They acted sweet and welcoming
:but they were mean and rude and
unkind.
The evaluated situations with
prowess and assortment and hust
they made enemies of the dwarfingdores
and smuggled there squashes and stuff.
There women...

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Surrounded by the Bay of Conception
Bell Island anchored for miles perception
Deep deep under the mine that was drudged
Remnants of rail blind horses that tugged 

Not the mainland but off Canada's shore
The iron ore mines that...

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My mind a thick fog, a thick fog so deep, 
it threatens to submerge my thoughts. 
I know not why, or how, or even who,
for the fog makes me it's puppet. 
It stutters and now...

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This just in from our local news team:


     A nun was detained by two students after class and forced
to drink a dry martini.

    The students, John Peterson and...

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they smuggle drugs they smuggle clothes they smuggle humans

in the darkness of the night they load them onto a ship and tuck them away

under motors in stalls one on top of the other packed like...

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REST OR LIVE IN PEACE 
 
Why do we only rest in peace?
Why don't we live in peace & breath anew?
The peace that is scarred from all race
is the same that cuddles with the dead...

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There is nothing more in roses, nothing more in sky,
Stars are there with no dreams and only despair
Sun is there with no shine,only blind
Diversity is there but with no living signs.

Trees no more dance,bushes no...

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Sickness and orphanage is not his choice
In the ears of the world echoes his voice
When he shouts for help you ignore his noise
For problems in the world are always his toys

Help me please 
He still...

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As another refugee dies
camped along America's southern border 
a poor family seeks law and order
In Mexico
(In Mexico)
And the family cries.
They didn't expect to find hatred here
it's another burden that adds to their fear
In Mexico
(In Mexico)
People,...

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What do you mean by freedom?

If someone is dying, let him die,
If someone is fighting, let him fight,
If someone is abusing, let him abuse,
If someone is smashing, let him smash.

Does freedom mean everyone’s own business?

If...

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I don’t need a feed of pomp or a creed of fanfare to progress
Cos my God rains treasure trains
Teeming with blessings and fertile feelings to address the plight and stress
That threaten in tens to smuggle...

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If poetry channels our anger and sorrow
Who then will want to write it tomorrow
And will joy and contentment stifle its future?
And what will become of our stays and culture?

I say poetry has been victimized 
Vilified,...

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Into the solar system
Outreaching myself
Intense grief, mourning
Into cake and wedding dress

Galvanized poorly, the rust
About to topple into ochre
Coated stardust glittering
As we discover the truth

Not enough good, oh but for better
For worse, for years, for a...

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