Posts Tagged ‘betrayal’
6月 2, 2025
PEOPLE
people are nightmares
people are sleep
people are untold
fathoms deep
people are small
people call
people wail
people are nails
pails in the rain
people rail
people betray
again and again
people are birds
birds on the fields
fish in the rivers
fish in the sea
people yield
people thirst
people hunger
people are fear
people are wonders
people are words
people burst
people fly
people fall
people swing
people stink
people work
people are anything
anytime
under the sun
over the moon
among the stars
people aren’t on mars
people are cars
playing cards
people are farts
people are ants
people poison
and pant
people write
and extradite
people are kites
people are bards
MW Midnight, May 30, 2025
in Györ, Hungary
Picture by Duan Weiguo
人
人是噩梦
人睡人
人说人人
都很深
人都很小
人们叫
人们哭
人是钉子
雨水筒
人是恨
人卖人
人是鸟
人是野兽
河里的鱼
海里也是
人让人
有人非常渴
有人非常饿
人都是奇迹
人是个词
人能爆炸
人能飞
人能跌倒
人摇晃
人是工作
人都很臭
人是一切到处都有
在星星中
在星球上
火星人有吗
人人都有车
能打牌的车
人都放屁
人也是蚂蚁
人也下毒
人喘息
人写信
也令出境
人是风筝
偶尔写诗
2025.6.1
标签：betrayal, bicycle, border, borders, car, death, deaths, economy, fall, fart, fish, food, life, Mars, memory, music, people, poetry, poison, selling, society, stars, stink, water, wonder, work, world
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1月 5, 2022
Xiao Xia
IS IT LOVE?
I accept myself when my business fails with a mountain of debts.
I accept myself when my marriage fails and I’m hurting all over.
I accept myself when I’m insulted, accused, hiding in tears.
I accept myself when I am sick, when I’m down on my last breath.
I accept myself when I lose all restraint, when I love, I am free.
I accept myself when I’m confused, I smoke and I drink.
I accept myself when I flee, I shrink back, I am stubborn as hell.
I accept myself when I’m wilful, go back on my word, when I’m bad.
I accept myself when my temper breaks out and I’m walking alone.
I accept myself when I’m stupid, selfish, not perfect at all.
But why
is it so hard
when I can’t write a good poem?
Translated by MW in December 2021
新世纪诗典11，NPC12月29日，3922首，1227人。第5个小虾（广西）日
《新诗典》小档案：小虾 女，广西来宾人，80后。
伊沙推荐：本诗是《新诗典》国庆云诗会亚军作品，在十二月下半年推荐诗中属于上乘之作。感觉上，女诗人被男诗人压了一年，到年底几员猛女将挺身而出扬眉吐气了一把。本诗最大的优点是贴身，距自身贴得很近、很紧，说真话，最感人。
况禹点评《新诗典》小虾《是爱吗》：写作与生活到底是一种什么关系？或者说——写作者与自己的生活到底是一种怎样的关系？这类疑问，无论写诗与否，人们一直都在好奇和追问。答案因人而异。本诗就是建立此类追问基础上的自我设问。这一问问得不错，问出了具象的生活，也问出了挣扎的自我。
伊沙主持 | 新世纪诗典11一周联展（2021.12.26——2022.1.1）
标签：acceptance, anger, betrayal, business, conflict, debt, feelings, habits, independence, language, life, love, memory, NPC, people, person, personal, poetry, self, temper, temperament, Xiao Xia, 小虾, 新世纪詩典
发表在 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, 2020, 2021, 20th century, 21st century, December 2021, January 2022, Middle Ages, NPC, poetry, Translations, 新世纪诗典 | Leave a Comment »
9月 18, 2015
WARSCHAU
ich finde den adler nicht schön
nur den schatten des adlers
in der kapelle für katyn
gegenüber vom platz der aufständischen
es war ein tapferer aufstand
sie haben auch gewonnen zuerst
die rote armee stand bereit
auf der anderen seite des flusses
aber die rote armee hat gewartet
und die deutschen kamen zurück
sie haben die stadt abgerissen
die rote armee hat gewartet
das war 1944
der aufstand im ghetto war vorher
auf dem platz wo das ghetto war
steht stalins kulturpalast
das ghetto war noch viel größer
katyn
das war 1940
zehntausende polnische offiziere
vom geheimdienst getötet
vom sowjetischen geheimdienst
auch ukrainische offiziere
in der kapelle für katyn
gegenüber vom platz der aufständischen
zehntausende namen
und ein schöner adler
so steht es geschrieben
ich mag seinen schatten
MW Juli 2015, dt. Sept. 2015
标签：army, betrayal, chapel, city, culture, death, eagle, Germans, ghetto, history, Katyn, massacre, memory, names, orders, Poland, Red Army, river, second world war, secret service, shadow, translation, travel, uprising, uprising square, war, Warsaw, world war II
发表在 July 2015, poetry, September 2015, Translations, Uncategorized, Welcome! | Leave a Comment »
8月 3, 2015
WARSAW
the eagle is not beautiful
the shadow of the eagle is
they have a chapel for Katyn
across from uprising square
the uprising was very brave
they won at first
the Red Army was there
just across the river
but the Red Army waited
then the Germans came back
they razed Warsaw City
the Red Army waited
that was in 1944
before that was the Ghetto
the Ghetto uprising
Stalin’ s culture palace stands in its place
in the place of the Ghetto
Katyn
was in 1940
tens of thousands of Polish officers
killed by Soviet intelligence
Ukrainians too
they have a chapel for Katyn
across from Uprising Square
tens of thousands of names
and a beautiful eagle
they say
I like its shadow
MW July 2015
SUNSHINE IN WARSAW
Jacqueline Winter
A beautiful summer morning. Biking through the historical center. The bike return station is next to the monument of the 1944 uprising against the Nazis. HOW many dead and wounded, while the Red Army literally stood by on the outskirts of town? And the city dynamited and emptied of its population…you would never think it, looking at it now.
Across the street, inside a church, a simple and gut- wrenching memorial to the Katyn massacre victims. With a side memorial for the Smolensk plane crash of 2010, which I fail to understand. Must ask a local where they see the connection- if they do.
And what a tough people: exiled, murdered, bombed, map redrawn…yet they rebuilt splendidly from the rubble while still dirt- poor and were the first to put up meaningful nonviolent resistance to the Soviets back in 1980. And had free elections as soon as they could.
Swinoujscie – Swinemünde had public exhibits around town about their common history with Germany, bilingual. A strongly German city which was bombed flat 55% for being a naval base. No mention of the pre-war German population in Warsaw, though…
The Warsaw “Stalin cake” / Palace of Culture and Science is still on the grounds of the Jewish ghetto. That uprising was in 1943. A few meters of markings on the ground to show where its outer wall once stood. That is all.
ATTITUDE, EMPATHY AND SO ON
Martin Winter
People are trying to get by everywhere. First World vs. Third World (or Second World) creates issues of privilege. Just like different kinds of background, experience, heritage make for issues of disconnect within a common country or region. Why are people stupid enough to vote for or even work with racist rightist arseholes in Hitler-spawning Austria? Austria-Hungary-Germany whatever? My friends in China try to get by. Like people everywhere. Some get to express how they detest the state they are in. Some more than others. Like people anywhere, more or less. Some have their audience, as famous poets or fiction writers. Yes, things have improved very much in Taiwan, and in China there is the same repression going on in some ways. Yes, everyone is taking part more or less, including foreigners. All in all, foreign media is a good influence. Most of it. Everywhere probably, in every country, reporting from any outsider’s stance or background can be very refreshing. I was privileged in Taiwan and in China, in Eastern Europe, even in America. On the other hand, I am in between. Every day I talk and work with people and texts from different worlds. It’s a great life, all in all.
标签：betrayal, bombed, brave, chapel, culture, death, documentation, eagle, elections, Germans, ghetto, history, intelligence, jews, Katyn, Katyn massacre, life, memory, message, names, palace, plaque, poetry, Poland, Red Army, reporting, resistance, river, shadow, site, Stalin, translation, travel, uprising, uprising square, waiting, war, Warsaw
发表在 August 2015, July 2015, poetry, Uncategorized | Leave a Comment »
中国大好き 