Short Mao Poems

a little red book-
                         to fill many empty heads....

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Dead pan
Bread man



6,28,2018

This had me L(ing)MAO for days....

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Litle
red book-
was to fill
many empty
heads.

Ekphrasis on Mao 1973 by Warhol...

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Marx
Engels 
Lenin
Trotsky
Stalin
Mao Zedong

''The Great American Reset''
(A March Into Hell)...

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You made a lot of promises and vows
As much sincerity as Chairman Mao
But fools like me do believe
Drunk like a New Year’s Eve
Broken faith betrayed by a sacred cow...

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Tiny tiny feet
Bound by a millennium and
1966
Swirling in candy-apple red flags fettered, unfurled
Gilded stars glittering in their midst. 
How many celestial moons will pass until 
Mr. Mao comes down to break up the
Combo and pronounce,
“God is alive, really kicking and has a 
Grey grey beard”?...

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Mão

Jamais
hesite
em estender 
a mão; 
nunca hesite 
em aceitar
 a mão estendida 
de outra pessoa
o progresso
intelectual 
e social, 
a segurança
e paz de 
cada pessoa
estão 
ligados ao 
intelectual 
e social, 
a segurança
e paz de 
de todos 
as outras pessoas
que como você
podecom pouco;
fazer mais e mais....

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I.
Human, I am starve.
Please feed me chicken. I love
you. Then ride in car?

II.
It's wag? It's moving?
It's problem. I wish I know
what tail is doing.

III.
You think I'm sooo cute.
I wants you to snuffle me
like I snuffle you.

IV.
I'm big, brave. I bite.
Proteck childrens. Guard  house and
keep you safe at night....

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Famine Foretold
(Stalin, 1930, 30 million, and Mao Tse Tung 1960, 42 million, et al)

The land is the lord of men who live
Near yellow and lime-green fields,
Who plant it and till it and gladly give
All their toil, for crops it yields.

Dictators forced them to the modern way,
Profaning ancestral farms, 
The land did avenge itself one day
With the prophesied, ancient harms....

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“Bring back the Chinese balloon,” they cried.


“It’s all filled with fortune cookies, inside!”



Laughed so hard, I hit my head on my door


“Have Chow Mein and red, Mao nightlights, four!”


What American dare ask for anymore?


Masks aplenty, balloons, China,do send more!



                          2/5/2023

                    Based on a true event.




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"They should stop kissing babies
and write poetry."

He meant the politicians.	
I nodded in agreement.

The idea appealed,
then I thought of all
the bad poetry in the world.

"Art lifts us above the base condition,
it inspires us beyond the personal."

His words seemed plausible,
until I recalled
that Hitler was an artist,
Mao and other dictators
wrote poetry.

I shuddered,
a man is judged by the company he keeps....

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I see no evil in the
 Mortise and tenon and in the thin 
Red line Mao traced in a
 Thousand or more 
Platitudes still
Posing deftly in old 
Wuhan. 

 Just a while ago I did glimpse a 
Twinkle in the
 Delicate curl of a child’s 
Lip and in the
Tender.

 Millions of centimeters away the French, in 
Perfect nonchalance, 
Pause, as stock markets
 Nip and tuck to 
Languid sips of cool cool 
Wine.

-Jeff Troyer 
April 2020...

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Stalin cared nothing for his people 
Mao Zedong was likewise 
Cruel and brutal tyrants 
Who slaughtered millions of their own people. 

And now let those who espouse the ideals 
Of communism, marxism, socialism and globalism
Learn the truth from the blood soaked landscape 
Of the twentieth century 
And listen to the haunting cries 
Of countless millions who have died...


        W.A CHOLT. Copyright Fergal O Reilly 2022.

         3/9/22...

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