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Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 1
by T. Wignesan → (All Poetry by T. Wignesan)
Wednesday, May 4, 2022    Rated "G" by the Author.
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The first of a sequence of 64 villanelles on the theme of non-violence


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Villanelle: The dilemma of the non-violent – Part One

The dilemma of the non-violent
How best to withstand the misuse of force
The nonchalant imbued with mal-intent

Be it your neighbour or your own parent
The country cult sect religion or race
The dilemma of the non-violent

The more you bear in silence your tyrant
The more he’ll rally his rights to enforce
The nonchalant imbued with mal-intent

And if you so much as by instinct relent
Fail own family to protect perforce
The dilemma of the non-violent

Krishna to Arjuna: non-attachment*
Panacea for all abuse of force
The nonchalant imbued with mal-intent

Either way done for in this firmament
Victim or oppressor without remorse
The dilemma of the non-violent
The nonchalant imbued with mal-intent

• The philosophy of the Bhagavad Gita (Song of God), thought of as the Hindu "Bible": in all actions to remain detached from personal involvement.

© T. Wignesan – Paris, 2015
Copyright © T Wignesan | Year Posted in Poetrysoup.com, 2015



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Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on May 5, 2022
64 villanelles! I didn't know that one subject had so many variations!

I guess it is the Bhagavad Gita that allows the many cultures, languages and religions of the Indian greater subcontinent to get along so well, in spite of the great separation of Hindus and Muslims in 1948 at the breakup of English colonialism. If it weren't for Mahatma Gandhi, nonviolence would never have taken hold in South Africa and in the United States by the civil rights movement led by Martin Luther King, a Christian who learned from the philosophical idea of nonviolence being greater than violence.

Ron


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