"shanxi" poems - Hello Poetry

I lived in Shenzhen, China, for my 6th and 7th grades. - China was AMAZING. In China, blond hair is unusual, I stood out like neon and touching blond hair was considered good luck. In a train station, if I stood still, I could draw a curious mob - especially in the provinces like Heubi and Shanxi. I was in more than a few selfies but people were polite and respectful. China is much more advanced than the U.S.. Everything is new, clean and modern - the Internet is faster. Most trains are bullet trains that travel 325kph (>200mph). There are more than 10 new, gleaming cities larger (and newer) than New York. An App called WeChat (used on your phone) runs the world. imagine Facebook, iMessage, PayPal and Uber combined - with that one App you could do anything. At restaurants, you paid your bill at your table using WeChat from a QR code that the electronic corner of your table displayed. You even paid street vendors with the app - no one used cash. Cameras are everywhere - if you break a law like jaywalking and BBBZZZZ you get a text and the fine is deducted from your WeChat account - all automatically. Public TV screens, located on corners, show recent violations with the perps picture and the fine they paid - again, automatic. Does this sound Orwellian? Well, maybe, but Chinese police don't **** people - or even engage people for minor offenses. America, you're broke and on the edge of being a third world country. Yeah, yeah, I know that China is free-market-communist and certainly imperfect - but if you saw China, you'd be impressed and you'd know the ugly truth - America has squandered it's wealth on military macho and forty years of war. China's last, small war was in 1980 (With Vietnam who they beat in 3 weeks and 2 days). Middle America looks almost bombed-out with closed businesses (even before the pandemic) - but in China, you can’t look anywhere without seeing building cranes - like a forest of trees. A physical illustration of Americas loss of wealth. I LOVE America - it’s sad to see. We've gotta wake up.

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Oct 23, 2020

Oct 23, 2020 at 6:36 AM UTC

anaisvionet

third world America

I lived in Shenzhen, China, for my 6th and 7th grades. - China was AMAZING. In China, blond hair is unusual, I stood out like neon and touching blond hair was considered good luck. In a train station, if I stood still, I could draw a curious mob - especially in the provinces like Heubi and Shanxi. I was in more than a few selfies but people were polite and respectful. China is much more advanced than the U.S.. Everything is new, clean and modern - the Internet is faster. Most trains are bullet trains that travel 325kph (>200mph). There are more than 10 new, gleaming cities larger (and newer) than New York. An App called WeChat (used on your phone) runs the world. imagine Facebook, iMessage, PayPal and Uber combined - with that one App you could do anything. At restaurants, you paid your bill at your table using WeChat from a QR code that the electronic corner of your table displayed. You even paid street vendors with the app - no one used cash. Cameras are everywhere - if you break a law like jaywalking and BBBZZZZ you get a text and the fine is deducted from your WeChat account - all automatically. Public TV screens, located on corners, show recent violations with the perps picture and the fine they paid - again, automatic. Does this sound Orwellian? Well, maybe, but Chinese police don't **** people - or even engage people for minor offenses. America, you're broke and on the edge of being a third world country. Yeah, yeah, I know that China is free-market-communist and certainly imperfect - but if you saw China, you'd be impressed and you'd know the ugly truth - America has squandered it's wealth on military macho and forty years of war. China's last, small war was in 1980 (With Vietnam who they beat in 3 weeks and 2 days). Middle America looks almost bombed-out with closed businesses (even before the pandemic) - but in China, you can’t look anywhere without seeing building cranes - like a forest of trees. A physical illustration of Americas loss of wealth. I LOVE America - it’s sad to see. We've gotta wake up.

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Today I went to the top of the world. And met two monks Empty of everything except themselves. The sky a seamless part of it. With pleasant walks, food and talk at will. Our only dreams of words forgotten. And there in the margins An interval between wars I saw a black bird As black as those that bled in a Shanxi mine. Darkness evolved into perfection Mountains within mountains, Something like a maze. "Go back to the dark and grimy alleys of Manchester" the monks told me. And now, in my returning dream, I see tides of people falling through the siege.

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Jul 23, 2017

Jul 23, 2017 at 11:18 AM UTC

andrew-duggan

Xiahe

Today I went to the top of the world. And met two monks Empty of everything except themselves. The sky a seamless part of it. With pleasant walks, food and talk at will. Our only dreams of words forgotten. And there in the margins An interval between wars I saw a black bird As black as those that bled in a Shanxi mine. Darkness evolved into perfection Mountains within mountains, Something like a maze. "Go back to the dark and grimy alleys of Manchester" the monks told me. And now, in my returning dream, I see tides of people falling through the siege.

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So Shanxi TV want to interview me. This is my chance. To say something that people will never forget. " In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes" said Andy Warhol, well I have less time than him. If you had five minutes of fame what would you say? You have waited all your life for this moment. The cameras are on you and the world is waiting. What would you say? Would you speak of those who fall into hell or those who fall into heaven? Maybe you would tell the world that you love your country, but dreamed last night that the dogs of Fenyang barked no more. Or maybe like Ji Xianlin, you would say something about growing flowers for the benefit of all. What would you say?

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Aug 26, 2017

Aug 26, 2017 at 9:32 AM UTC

andrew-duggan

Five Minutes of Fame on Shanxi TV.

So Shanxi TV want to interview me. This is my chance. To say something that people will never forget. " In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes" said Andy Warhol, well I have less time than him. If you had five minutes of fame what would you say? You have waited all your life for this moment. The cameras are on you and the world is waiting. What would you say? Would you speak of those who fall into hell or those who fall into heaven? Maybe you would tell the world that you love your country, but dreamed last night that the dogs of Fenyang barked no more. Or maybe like Ji Xianlin, you would say something about growing flowers for the benefit of all. What would you say?

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"If there are flowers flowers must come out to the road" The four Black Vinegar clans: From the North - Shanxi, Chinkiang (or Zhenjiang) from the South, Black vinegar from Sichuan, And red worker vinegar of Fujian. Furious flowers wait across the Realms across the Changes "and the spiraling dead, our black revival, our black vinegar, our hands, and our hot blood." we Vinegars We got this thing this Thing called Radar Love (cue song) (montage of Black Vinegar & Furious Flowers)

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May 17, 2023

May 17, 2023 at 12:35 PM UTC

jojo-nguyen

Black Vinegar

"If there are flowers flowers must come out to the road" The four Black Vinegar clans: From the North - Shanxi, Chinkiang (or Zhenjiang) from the South, Black vinegar from Sichuan, And red worker vinegar of Fujian. Furious flowers wait across the Realms across the Changes "and the spiraling dead, our black revival, our black vinegar, our hands, and our hot blood." we Vinegars We got this thing this Thing called Radar Love (cue song) (montage of Black Vinegar & Furious Flowers)

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Today is the first of September The end of summer in Taiyuan Hopes of love expired, summer lapsed away Too impeccable to last. The crickets put their songbooks away The long march over for another year Hearts moving, yet without a dream Their music web will sing a different tune. One last walk by the Fen and memories of dizziness. Faintly the steps begin to grieve each one heavy with the waning light. And now the cold kiss of a Shanxi winter invites me to walk by its placid stream. And drink its cooling breath More vivid than the sunsets final glow.

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Sep 1, 2017

Sep 1, 2017 at 11:00 AM UTC

andrew-duggan

The End of Summer in Taiyuan

Today is the first of September The end of summer in Taiyuan Hopes of love expired, summer lapsed away Too impeccable to last. The crickets put their songbooks away The long march over for another year Hearts moving, yet without a dream Their music web will sing a different tune. One last walk by the Fen and memories of dizziness. Faintly the steps begin to grieve each one heavy with the waning light. And now the cold kiss of a Shanxi winter invites me to walk by its placid stream. And drink its cooling breath More vivid than the sunsets final glow.

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I wanted words to drop on my head "Topic sentences" he said Last of the new poets The last one on this side of the world But he was speaking another language I tried to conjure up words Henry V at Agincourt Dr King in Washington 'A Hard Rains Gonna Fall' From some town hall Words, words, words I don't know what to write. My brain has no way with words Dylan says ' It's hard, it's hard and it's hard...I know! But he says 'I can' He tells me about Sylvia Plath and Ernest Hemingway And Three Hundred Tang Poems And something stared in my soul A story of forgotten words "Write" he said. I began to make my own way.

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Sep 18, 2017

Sep 18, 2017 at 6:40 AM UTC

andrew-duggan

Topic Sentences at Shanxi Medical University.

I wanted words to drop on my head "Topic sentences" he said Last of the new poets The last one on this side of the world But he was speaking another language I tried to conjure up words Henry V at Agincourt Dr King in Washington 'A Hard Rains Gonna Fall' From some town hall Words, words, words I don't know what to write. My brain has no way with words Dylan says ' It's hard, it's hard and it's hard...I know! But he says 'I can' He tells me about Sylvia Plath and Ernest Hemingway And Three Hundred Tang Poems And something stared in my soul A story of forgotten words "Write" he said. I began to make my own way.

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