Mao: the poet

[Dhalgren]

LOUSHAN PASS

February 1935

Fierce the west wind,
Wild geese cry under the frosty morning moon.
Under the frosty morning moon
Horses' hooves clattering,
Bugles sobbing low.
Idle boast the strong pass is a wall of iron,
With firm strides we are crossing its summit.
We are crossing its summit,
The rolling hills sea-blue,
The dying sun blood-red


Good, good stuff...


For more -
http://www.marxists.org/reference/ar...oems/index.htm

[Dhalgren]

October 1935

The sky is high, the clouds are pale,
We watch the wild geese vanish southward.
If we fail to reach the Great Wall we are not men
We who have already measured twenty thousand li
High on the crest of Mount Liupan
Red banners wave freely in the west wind.
Today we hold the long cord in our hands,
When shall we bind fast the Grey Dragon?



"If we fail to reach the Great Wall we are not men" That is what we have to say to ourselves (men and women)! We have to set goals and refuse to fall short! It is hard, but what were we made for?

[Dhalgren]

July 1930

In June Heaven's armies chastise the corrupt and evil,
Seeking to bind roc and whale with a league-long cord.
Red glows the far side of the Kan,
Thanks to our wing under Huang Kung-lueh.
A million workers and peasants rise up,
Sweeping Kiangsi straight towards Hunan and Hupeh.
To the Internationale's stirring strains
A wild whirlwind swoops from the sky.

Mao

[Dhalgren]

MILITIA WOMEN
Inscription on a Photograph

February 1961

How bright and brave they look, shouldering five-foot rifles
On the parade ground lit up by the first gleams of day.
China's daughters have high-aspiring minds,
They love their battle array, not silks and satins.

Mao



Chinese women, heavily armed...yeah...

[Dhalgren]

Wide, wide flow the nine streams through the land,
Dark, dark threads the line from south to north.
Blurred in the thick haze of the misty rain
Tortoise and Snake hold the great river locked.

The yellow crane is gone, who knows whither?
Only this tower remains a haunt for visitors.
I pledge my wine to the surging torrent,
The tide of my heart swells with the waves.



Mao

Spring 1927

[brother cakes]

As you might know, when eating a chocolate bar, you have to start around the edges.

[Dhalgren]

and may carry not only the banners of The Workers' Future, but their candy bars, too! Well met, citizen worker!




http://www.marxists.org/reference/ar...-mountains.jpg


ETA: Oh, and this picture proves, definitively, that Mao was a ZZ Top fan...

[Kid of the Black Hole]

was throwing down with a double entendre..!

[Dhalgren]

Joshing while speaking The Name?! Reeducation is called for! First a recitation of all faults and short-comings! (Get it? "short" "comings"?)

:eek:

:banana:

[Kid of the Black Hole]

some guy walks up on a virulent denunciation taking place, a complete undressing of some poor "misguided" schmuck. Afterwards the onlooker asked who the speaker was only to discover it was the very person being denounced!!

Of course this was not exclusive to China. I love Picasso's many "self corrections"

As for shortcomings, you've heard about the guy who finished first and third in the masturbating contest, right?

[Dhalgren]

Mao and his wife are making love and he is going on for too long and his wife, breathless, says, "Come on sweetheart, you're stallin'!" And he had her killed...

ETA: Come on! That's gold! Or red? Whatever, that is a killer joke!