Isn't it curious even the immutable laws of the Yi-jing hold high the COUNTRY and brands those who slight the NATIONAL FLAG for what it stands for... RECALCITRANTS !!!
DEDICATED to the "récalcitrants" - the millions (?) - who no one has ever heard of.
Villanelle : When countries slaughter maim who brands that homicide
DEDICATED to the "récalcitrants" - the millions (?) - who no one has ever heard of.
When countries slaughter maim who brands that homicide
Proclaim citizens who kill under the patrie’s pennant heros
Permissible by far all things done to boost national pride
Killing for your god even to ward off a remark thought snide
Fellow believers’ll enshrine your name in martyrs pantheons
When countries slaughter maim who brands that homicide
Leaders lie cheat slander even – forbid – commit fratricide
Citizens shrug shoulders and pass it all off as political woes
Permissible by far all things done to boost national pride
Sick secret service scions see to it their victims all slide
Down the slippery slope of unaccountable anonymous blows
When countries slaughter maim who brands that homicide
And yet leaders and preachers claim peace for all with pride
Their individual charters and scriptures back sinister goals
Permissible by far all things done to boost national pride
Why then history relegates the greatest actions taken at tide
To memory’s junk pile where fester countries and their heros
When countries slaughter maim who brands that homicide
Permissible by far all things done to boost national pride
Monseigneur Don Ron, you got your teeth into the meat of the poem even if other aims and concepts like Master Kung's authoritarian infra-structure were targetted. Never mind, and thanks very much for the willingness to emphasise the uselessness of shoring-up national territories, etc. Let the fanatics rave while they still can: their final resting place will be the rotting-rusting dung heap of history ! Best. TW
You are so right. War is nothing other than sanctioned murder. And when little children and women are involved, we simply and conveniently call it, "collateral damage," as though some property had been inadvertently damaged, rather than human lives taken or maimed.
Quite often, the death of a loved one, results in an attempt at revenge. Evidence shows that throughout history and even prehistory, human beings have warred either from revenge or territory, well described in the book, The Territorial Imperative. It is hard to break that cycle we have have been in since before recorded history. And we are now in possession of weapons of mass killing. Like the baseball field, if we have them, will we use them?
Is not capital punishment, but revenge? Should we just kill war criminals like we are Islamic terrorist leaders? Who knows when the violence will stop.
Your poem illustrates well how we honor and elevate our hired killers.
This is a political treatise that deals with the China issue from a completely new perspective. Disparaging as he may sound, from page to page, toward "the old system" and the Communist Party's various wiles, the author demonstrates his mysteriously
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Quite often, the death of a loved one, results in an attempt at revenge. Evidence shows that throughout history and even prehistory, human beings have warred either from revenge or territory, well described in the book, The Territorial Imperative. It is hard to break that cycle we have have been in since before recorded history. And we are now in possession of weapons of mass killing. Like the baseball field, if we have them, will we use them?
Is not capital punishment, but revenge? Should we just kill war criminals like we are Islamic terrorist leaders? Who knows when the violence will stop.
Your poem illustrates well how we honor and elevate our hired killers.
Ron