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July 20, 1999
a villanelle for Falun Gong Practitioners
after 24 years of persecution
Your path is narrow, yet look at where it goes
As you seek truth and truth defines your ways;
The land of bliss waits past the swamp of woes.
When rancid scorn and thorns are what life blows
Your way, you smell each rose and lift your gaze—
Your path is narrow, yet look at where it goes.
You’ve won each fight without a fight. Your foes
Are foes because they chose so, in a daze.
The land of bliss waits past the swamp of woes.
Your heart, vast as the sea, now overflows
And drowns in kindness mass state-sponsored craze.
Your path is narrow. Yet look at where it goes…
When tied and beaten down, each time you rose
And though your flesh may pass, your message stays—
The land of bliss waits past the swamp of woes.
Blows hurt your souls like rocks the cyclops throws
But cannot stop your homebound ship… We praise:
Your path is narrow, yet look at where it goes,
The land of bliss waits past the swamp of woes!
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Daniel Magdalen is a doctoral student in the Faculty of Letters at the University of Bucharest, in Romania.
Sad, poignant, yet hopeful! I decry the persecution and pray for an end to the senseless slaughter.
I really appreciate your kind thoughts.
Excellent use of the two refrains coming together at the end of the poem to indicate a thematic resolution, and to express hope for an end to the persecution.
I truly appreciate your insightful comment as well your kind words.
Buna seara!
Domnule Magdalen, eu sunt nepotul dinspre mama al lui Ion C Pena despre care ati scris un articol in https://epochtimes-romania.com. Se poate lua legatura cu dvs?
Doamne, ajuta!