whistling
in the rain
how I love you
so they say
a dream is not
a nightmare in a play
a tragedy but whose to say
halved misery the other mystery
milks silken
savvy
ergo
me
yue
It was amazing seeing you..
Altogether the time passes swiftly by
Can you remember the first night
When all was silence in the room beneath the broken moon
Wishing and remnicing that the pain felt had never been there
I miss seeing your bright smile
Watching the leaves fall from the divine mountain.
Together we danced with the moon and sang with the sun
Alas the mortal compass passes time all too soon
The leaves on the immortal mountain freeze with the song of chaos
Don't you know it was amazing knowing you.
Wishing for the dream on the bright moon
Dancing with the drunken immortal
Hanging onto broken red threads of Lao Yue
Even as the paradise crumbles.
It was amazing knowing you.
All at once a thousand miles a hundred years pass and the the voice I longed for is heard in the silence.
At once the immortal palace is rebuild, and the frozen leaves thaw to bloom into the spring.
A Lakota Sioux Elder
once prophetically said…
“We will be known forever
by the tracks we leave behind”
That wisdom now marking
a trail of tears
—any hope still yet to find
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2019)
China Spies and Lies
Concentration camps in the north
disappearing book sellers in the south
Chinese spies hunt one and all
Army of thieves , worldwide
Zhao Ziyang, where is he?
erased from Chinese history
where is the brave young man
who battled one thousand tanks?
Xu Jiatun, where is he?
erased from Chinese history
truth has no play in China today
only death and propaganda reign
Xi Jinping, crimes against humanity
Lu Shaye, propogandist to the core
Leaders of a revolution long dead
corruption their cause, their only rules
Coal plants and cigarettes
Keep your silences
even you may lose your breath
This is China, spies and lies
Jailed Activists
Ai Weiwei
Bao Tong
Bao Zunxin
Cai Lujun
Chen Pokong
Cheng Jianping
Gao Zhisheng
Guo Quan
He Depu
Hu Jia
Huang Qi
Ilham Tohti
Jiang Lijun
Jiang Rong
Jiang Yanyong
Jiang Yefei
Li Hai
Li Zhi
Liao Yiwu
Liu Di
Liu Xiaobo
Qin Yongmin
Shi Tao
Tan Zuoren
Tang Baiqiao
Wang Bingzhang
Wang Dan
Wang Quanzhang
Wang Xiaoning
Wang Youcai
Wei Jingsheng
Wu Gan
Xu Zhiyong
Yang Jianli
Yuan Hongbing
Yue Xin
Zeng Jinyan
Zhao Changqing
Zhao Lianhai
Thirty years as a pair (well, next year we'll be there)
if by the Lord's grace you still find us,
but I think it's a crime, that he's taking his time
old Yue-Lao with his red cord to bind us.
Though sometimes we might start a row and a fight,
you would think that the first to jump in
would be Mars, God of war in Roman cosmic law,
but no sign of him when it begins.
Mighty Thor, God of thunder knows whose thumb I'm under,
but he's making no song or a dance
he takes us as he finds us, no need to remind us
that we're never parting- no chance.
Anubis seems quiet, I'm not quite sure why it
ignores that I love you to death
I don't need to worry, it seems in no hurry
to take from me my final breath
The spirits above us, most of which say they love us
since time began, I think they knew,
apathetic or lazy, the Gods must be crazy
to let me keep on loving you.
28th December 2015
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