UPDATE: THOUSANDS MASSACRED IN Burma (Myanmar) !!!

I SAY WE ARM THE MONKS!

Monk Militia!

 

A Desperate Plea

Floating face-down
In a river of murdered hope,
I pitifully watch the two-faced street trader,
Who laughing from his plastic stool,
Sells pidgeons now, not poultry.

Bald Eagle's eyes seem blind to this,
For I can see but vultures
Black armour-clad and anrgy,
Screeching their impatience
As my corpse marches on.

I am fearless, shoeless, hairless.
Their hatred has finally set me free.
But who will free my barefoot brethren?
Will you?
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I am rarely moved so much by a photo. This is a 5 minute poem from last night, unpolished. I write. There's not much else I can do.

 

Wow, that is an amazing poem, redyelruc. The picture is horrible ... without the poem, it's a gruesome image - the dead body of a monk floating in a filthy stream. But with the poem, it's a tragic portrait of a brave individual who died fighting for his brothers' and sisters' freedom. It's amazing how words can change things like that.

 

Actually, they do have oil.

PS the thread title changed. It scared me at first because I thought someone had hacked my account. I guess it was a mod or something?

 

the new world order appreciates any democratic activism you can direct toward myanmar . it's been scheduled for inclusion . all people of the world must participate . myanmar has been holding out especially resisting the erosion of traditional culture . everything of british colonialism was left out in the rain to rot , few foreigners get in .


on our home front , democracy can be very much sentimentalized . bush did this with iraq . through democracy you are saved ! by the rule of law you are free !

be cautious ? isn't it best for a society to effect positive change when it's not under duress . so please be very kind to the whole situation . an american outrage can seem self-indulgent , perversely sentimental . be cautious also of disinformation .

a bbc reporter today was asked a question of the situation that she admitted ignorance of then in the next moment proceeded to make up a news report about it . then too , show a pic of one dead monk and declare him to be a thousand . how much fact do you really have ? ... enough to have a sorrow about a bad situation , woe .

 

I've been looking closer at those pictures of the monks and the other protesters... I'm in awe. There must be at least a hundred thousand people there, even though everyone there must know that the dictatorship is murdering protesters.
Here in the US, we can hardly get people to go to peaceful protests... and over there, there are hundreds of thousands of people willing to risk their lives at one.

 

The lengths people will go to acheive liberty is truly awe-inspiring. March on, my brothers, march on.

 

Only with help from outside can they be rid of their socialist military regime.

 

What are your sources for these threats on the media. it seems totally plausible, but what is the hard proof?

 

Sometimes a photo can speak louder than words.This single photo certainly screams 'injustice'.I don't know why really,but this photo reminds me of the civil rights activists floating in the Mississippi mud in 1964.Different time & place but same sentiments & mission;to restore to ordinary people their human rights.

 

butifule poem redy! i tried to post before but for some reason it kept telling me it was to short! skip? but this whole situation makes me sick straight to my soul !

 

^ same here. i just wish i had written proofof this media interference