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Cindy Lapeña: tiananmen square revisited

Posted on 06/18/2019 by | Cindy Lapeña: tiananmen square revisited已关闭评论
i was not there in tiananmen square
not in nineteen hundred and eighty nine
i remember
a huge square
and huge square buildings
and a long red wall
with a portrait of mao
i remember a monolith
a statue
(maybe it was somewhere else?)

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Michael Allyn Wells: Tiananmen Mother

Posted on 06/17/2019 by | Michael Allyn Wells: Tiananmen Mother已关闭评论
—for Zhao Ziyang
The Beijing breeze whispers
mournful strophes.
Tears like the mountain rains
follow slopes

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Louise Leger: The Tank Man

Posted on 06/16/2019 by | Louise Leger: The Tank Man已关闭评论

The students stood at Tiananmen Square
That’s where they went to fight for public gain
The government said they must get out of there
The people stood their ground and so were slain Continue reading →

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Elizabeth Spencer Spragins: Tiananmen Square (A Clogyrnach)

Posted on 06/15/2019 by | Elizabeth Spencer Spragins: Tiananmen Square (A Clogyrnach)已关闭评论

Youthful zeal fans sparks of unrest
To flames as the jaded protest.
They throng to the square
To challenge the chair
With a stare
To the West.

Unarmed, undeterred, they dare bring
To light fervent hopes for the spring.
The peaceful crusade
Designed to persuade
Draws the blade
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SEUMAS GALLACHER: TO THE FLOWERS OF TIANANMEN SQUARE

Posted on 06/14/2019 by | SEUMAS GALLACHER: TO THE FLOWERS OF TIANANMEN SQUARE已关闭评论
The chill of death came swiftly
To the flowers of youth that morn
But the seed will last forever
From the slaughter, hope is born.
A world watched in horror
As their lifeblood flowed that day
The memories of courage
Will never fade away.
Soldiers, tanks and bullets
Cannot eclipse their roles
They may burn the students’ bodies
But they cannot destroy their souls.

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Ernie Lowe: Free flying now

Posted on 06/13/2019 by | Ernie Lowe: Free flying now已关闭评论
Down, down,
      down poison oak slopes
                down to a wooded canyon,
        down to recollect the whole
   in a ferny grove of redwoods,
          settling at last in a ring of trees
      where once one giant stood.

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Jack McCarthy: ONE HUMAN HEART

Posted on 06/12/2019 by | Jack McCarthy: ONE HUMAN HEART已关闭评论

for the martyrs of Tiananmen Square

The first generals ordered
to clear the square
refused and said,

“The people’s army
should not be used
against the people.”

Oh, the old chain-smokers
had other cards to play,
and it ended the way it seemed
that those things always would,
when men and women dreamed
too soon, too well—
crunch of truncheons, smell of b1ood,
the bucket in the corner of the cell;
Masada and Spartacus,
Boston Massacre, Harper’s Ferry,
Warsaw ghetto,
Hungary, Prague,
Kent State, Soweto.
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Lesley Duncan: CHINAMAN (GLASGOW, 1989)

Posted on 06/11/2019 by | Lesley Duncan: CHINAMAN (GLASGOW, 1989)已关闭评论

I saw him near George, not Tiananmen, Square,

A Chinese student, taller than the norm,

Open-shirted like a fifties Socialist, Swinging a plastic poke from M and S,

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