Short Usurpation Poems

Aggressive, befitting candor,
defies empathetic fervor.
Grave honesty is just,
kindness literally must not.
Omen partakes queer retribution,
savoring tantamount usurpation.
Vulgar words expound,
yields to zero...

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Tell you an approach to rid of your doubts without 
Practicing divination by tortoise’s shell and yarrow.
It takes three days of fire to single a jade stone out,
And a ridgepole tree it takes seven years to grow.
Zhou Gong once feared rumors about his loyalty, 
Wang Mang seemed modest before his usurpation.
If they had died before the unveiling of the reality, 
Who would know the truth in the later generation? 
(tran.)...

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