{"id":4712,"date":"2015-02-15T05:26:29","date_gmt":"2015-02-15T10:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/?p=4712"},"modified":"2022-06-25T04:29:37","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T08:29:37","slug":"no-19-shi-tao-song-of-october-and-another","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/no-19-shi-tao-song-of-october-and-another","title":{"rendered":"No. 17 Shi Tao: Song of October and Another"},"content":{"rendered":"

Song of October<\/strong><\/h2>\n

A short poem at last seems like a tide of sounds
\nSharply ending
\nMomentary silence has attracted
\nRough and clumsy footsteps of the bise in winter
\nNow
\nTriumphal procession like a poem is somewhere
\nGathering
\nSo many pairs of brave and nimble hands are
\nPlaying quickly on the keyboards –
\nSong of the Earth, and Song of Freedom
\n“Is it the rustling of wind through the forests in the lush mountains?
\nOr the ominous thunder hidden on the summit of the snowy peak? ”
\nThe connotation in a drop of ink is
\nA testimony on the last drop of blood shedding for the victory
\nHis eyes are grim
\nAnd people are looking with him at the sky
\nOctober
\nComes from afar, but not to end
\nOctober
\nWill become a festival for all the unfortunates and their friends<\/p>\n

2010.10.22.<\/p>\n

Reading the Victor Hugo<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The red gate to October has finally been opened
\nThe prisoners are gathering in the forgotten corners
\nAnd cheering their cheers which has not been done for ages
\nBut the loudest among those cawing
\nAre the black crows –
\n“They have always got a grudge against the poet”
\nOn the streets one cannot see
\nAny unusually active atmosphere
\nThe pedestrians
\nHastily rush to work
\nIn October
\nThe people knowing it by heart look like
\nDisguised performers or a group of bandits
\nWhy cannot it be openly celebrated
\n“My proud and generous lion …”
\nBetween this and “thunder of victory”
\nThere is such a great contrast!
\nOn the icy iron bars
\nThe inspiration of waking emerges from rapping:
\nFreedom, Freedom!<\/p>\n

2010.10.22<\/p>\n

From Yinchuan Prison, Ningxia<\/p>\n

(Translated by Yu Zhang)
\nNote: In that October the author in prison read an article in a newspaper that denounced the Norwegian Nobel Committee for awarding Liu Xiaobo the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010<\/em><\/p>\n

\uff08Chinese Original<\/a><\/span>\uff09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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