For the 25th Anniversary of the Persecution of Falun Gong: ‘Candlelight Vigil’ by Shindy Cai The Society July 20, 2024 Beauty, Human Rights in China, Poetry 7 Comments . Candlelight Vigil the persecution of the peaceful meditation practice Falun Gong by the CCP began on July 20, 1999 A single candle burns tonight, a sacred memory, An ember for the price of truth, a noble...
‘Freedom of Speech vs. the NBA’: A Poem by Drilon Bajrami The Society July 17, 2024 Culture, Human Rights in China, Poetry 8 Comments . Freedom of Speech vs. the NBA The CCP has raged and seethed, oh joy! Daryl Morey was not playing coy, He spoke the truth, a gun then to his head: “Fawn now! Or else your hoop dreams are all dead!” Even...
Winners of Friends of Falun Gong 2024 Poetry Competition Announced The Society May 13, 2024 Human Rights in China, Poetry, Poetry Contests 9 Comments . FIRST PLACE . Free to Be the PRC by James A. Tweedie According to the PRC’s unwritten protocol,To be Chinese these days it seems you can’t be Falun Gong.Your race or where you’re born no longer matter...
A Country Song on China and the CCP, by Evan Mantyk (Music Added) The Society April 24, 2024 Human Rights in China, Music, Poetry, Satire 24 Comments . Lyrics and vocals by Evan Mantyk / guitar by Jeff Eardley . The CCP Song (CCP: Chinese Communist Party) The world ain’t got the balls to take on China And all them greedy nations wanna sign a Free trade...
A Poem on China’s Belt and Road Initiative, by Paul A. Freeman The Society April 24, 2024 Culture, Human Rights in China, Poetry 16 Comments . When the Dragon Spreads Its Wings Millennia, the Dragon stayed at home, Consumed its own, kept dissidence at bay, Until it felt a gnawing urge to roam, To make its global domination play. With Belt and...
‘Fed Suffering: The True Story of Dai Mingrong’: A Poem by Daniel Magdalen The Society March 5, 2024 Culture, Human Rights in China, Poetry 14 Comments . Fed Suffering The True Story of Dai Mingrong . Not merely stale today, her bowl of rice Now tastes like bitter dust. Then, all’s ablur. Her grip grows shaky while her fingers curl... Condemned to suffer,...
On the United Nations, Israel, and Hamas, and Other Poetry by Russel Winick The Society November 20, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Human Rights in China, Humor, Poetry 18 Comments . “United” Nations? The U.N. won’t condemn Hamas’s slaughter,Supporting those who want Jews underwater.Iran’s a U.N. human rights group head,Though it would like Americans all dead. Two U.N....
‘The Miasma Enshrouding Disneyland’ and Other Disney Poetry by Brian Yapko The Society November 6, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Human Rights in China, Poetry 35 Comments . The Miasma Enshrouding Disneyland I came here as a fairytale-struck child; The tickets cost less than a week of pay And we would spend a carefree, joy-filled day. The park was clean; the rides were fun...
‘July 20, 1999’: A Poem by Daniel Magdalen The Society July 20, 2023 Human Rights in China, Poetry, Villanelle 4 Comments . 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...
‘Five Stars’: A Poem on the Chinese Communist Party, by Damian Robin The Society July 19, 2023 Human Rights in China, Poetry, Satire 6 Comments . ***** The Red Hotel has blood on ev’ry floor Where ev’ry room is numbered 666 And blood-greased door knobs bolting every door Suspend a blood red sign of ZZZ So slaving cleaners need not knock to...
CPL: Reading of FoFG Poetry Competition Winner, Interview with James Sale, and More The Society May 30, 2023 Classical Poets Live, Epic, Human Rights in China, Interviews, Poetry, Poetry Contests, Readings, Video 13 Comments . Classical Poets Live with Andrew Benson Brown Episode 3: Embrace the Epic, Not the Opaque If you enjoy this video, please like and subscribe on YouTube to support the production. . Podcast on Spotify:...
Winners of Friends of Falun Gong Poetry Competition Announced The Society May 13, 2023 Human Rights in China, Pantoum, Poetry, Poetry Contests, Villanelle 14 Comments . FIRST PLACE . Tooth and Claw a pantoum by Susan Jarvis Bryant Observe the tooth and claw of savage deed. Beware the ferric breath of looming dread. Don’t let the taunt of terror sow its...
‘Receiving an Organ Transplant from China’: A Poem by Evan Mantyk The Society April 25, 2023 Culture, Human Rights in China, Poetry 38 Comments . Receiving an Organ Transplant from China The waiting time was short, extremely short: A couple weeks and fifty thousand bucks Was all it took in China; somewhere else It’d take six months at least, which...
Sketches of Three Communistic Big Heads: Poems by Damian Robin The Society April 24, 2023 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Poetry, Satire 9 Comments . Sketches of Three Communistic Big Heads . 1. Xi Jinping Who thinks this belly-flopping avarist is good except those marrying the flies that buzz and hiss while he rips up the world, gnashing it to...
A Poem on Uyghurs Forced to Create Propaganda in China, by Paul A. Freeman The Society February 20, 2023 Human Rights in China, Poetry 20 Comments . In a School of Transformation I fix a mildly-optimistic smile upon my face, which until lately bore a tortured hue whilst in a pool of bile and piss I lay---upon a prison floor. I sing a lusty, patriotic...
‘China’s Silent Screams’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society December 6, 2022 Culture, Human Rights in China, Poetry 25 Comments . China’s Silent Screams The CCP will never hear the screams Of those who strive to find their way back home. It steals all hope and freedom---snatches dreams From lost souls tossed where wolves...
A Poem on the Movie Eternal Spring, by Evan Mantyk The Society October 24, 2022 Culture, Human Rights in China, Poetry, Villanelle 15 Comments . His Pen a villanelle written upon watching the movie Eternal Spring His pen flies back and forth, a righteous flurry That recreates the scenes of saintlike deeds, Giving shape to all that once was...
‘A Woodstock for China’ by Talbot Hook The Society October 1, 2022 Culture, Human Rights in China, Humor, Poetry 11 Comments . A Woodstock for China You sit within a public Chinese bus, And out the window: buildings, concrete, dust, Which all are perfect—life is simply thus. You stare with shining eyes, soft-spoken trust. A face...
‘Images of Darwin, post-1859’ and Other Poetry by Damian Robin The Society August 15, 2022 Culture, Human Rights in China, Poetry, Satire 13 Comments . Images of Darwin, Post-1859 1859: The year the ponderously titled On The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle For Life was published. A fat,...
Two Poems on China Nowadays, by Cheryl Corey The Society July 20, 2022 Culture, Human Rights in China, Poetry 4 Comments . I’m Not Too Keen On China Nowadays I’m not too keen on China nowadays: The moves they’ve made against Taiwan of late; The way they treat their citizens, negate Their freedoms, torture, torment,...
A Poem on Nostradamus’s July 1999 Prediction, by Daniel Magdalen The Society July 20, 2022 Culture, Human Rights in China, Poetry 4 Comments . A Prophecy the East Fulfilled The year 1999, seventh month, From the sky will come a great King of Terror: To bring back to life the great King of the Mongols, Before and after Mars to reign by good...
‘The Pale Rider Comes’ and Other Poetry by Martin Rizley The Society July 16, 2022 Culture, Human Rights in China, Poetry 10 Comments . The Pale Rider Comes “So then give to Caesar what is his,” our Lord and Master said, __“And to God give what is his---your sacred soul!” Yet despite these limits placed on him, with drawn sword...
Freedom in China Open Poetry Reading The Society June 29, 2022 Human Rights in China, Poetry, Readings 2 Comments . You are invited to a reading of poetry that shines a light on the plight of ordinary, innocent people in China today who are unjustly persecuted by the communist government---a government indirectly funded...
‘Shanghai’s Robo Dogs’ by Maura H. Harrison The Society May 19, 2022 Culture, Human Rights in China, Poetry, Readings 7 Comments . . Shanghai's Robo Dogs With quick unnatural steps, and side to side Focusing glances, robo dogs preside And prowl the streets. They wear their growls in little Speakers around their necks, their barking...
Winners of the 2022 Friends of Falun Gong Poetry Contest Announced The Society May 13, 2022 Human Rights in China, Poetry, Poetry Contests, Readings 12 Comments . FIRST PLACE https://youtu.be/F3aTnHiJ4yU . Amends to the Innocent by Brian Yapko Dear Falun Gong, I owe you my amends. I heard but would not listen to the sighs Of battered souls I should have known as...
A Tale from the April 25, 1999 Zhongnanhai Falun Gong Appeal, by Damian Robin The Society April 24, 2022 Culture, Human Rights in China, Poetry 9 Comments . A Tale of April 25, 1999 I’d practiced Falun Gong for seven years. It stopped my spine disease’s jabbing spears And repositioned bone and smoothed skin pores. Such cures were far beyond mere earthly...
A Poem on the Shanghai Lockdown: ‘Shhh…’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society April 19, 2022 Culture, Human Rights in China, Poetry, Readings, Science 15 Comments . . Shhh… Shanghai trembles at the edge of hell As horror wafts and weaves its way through streets. The moon melts in the flare of terror’s yell--- Hot howls of raw despair till morning...
2022 FoFG Poetry Competition The Society March 1, 2022 Human Rights in China, Poetry, Poetry Contests . Introduction Today, the communist government of China, the world’s largest nation, is attacking the basic freedom of thought and belief that have been a cornerstone of human civilization throughout...
A Poem for Ethan Gutmann, by Damian Robin The Society February 11, 2022 Culture, Human Rights in China, Poetry 4 Comments . As a Matter of Course for Ethan Gutmann, pioneer in investigating organ harvesting by the Chinese Communist Party Of course, you are a wanted man __on Party databases— So too are you a wanted man __by...
‘The Heroes of Beijing’: A Sonnet for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, by Evan Mantyk The Society January 21, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Human Rights in China, Poetry 6 Comments . The Heroes of Beijing on the Jan. 21 movie premiere of Unsilenced, just days before the Beijing Winter Olympics As great as it may be to send those hockey Pucks on icy wisps of air into A net as sweet as...
A Poem on the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, by Bruce Dale Wise The Society January 18, 2022 Culture, Human Rights in China, Poetry 4 Comments . The Winter Games Go On Although detainees must sleep in cramped cells on cement floors, and though they must wear shackles with their numbered uniforms, and though repression crosses Xinjiang’s pale...
On the Soccer Player Tattoo Ban and Other Poetry by Paul A. Freeman The Society January 12, 2022 Beauty, Human Rights in China, Humor, Limerick, Poetry 11 Comments . Limerick China’s footballers haven’t a clue why they can’t go and get a tattoo, but I think it might be it’s since President Xi is afraid they’ll choose Winnie the Pooh. . . This Urge for the...
A Holiday Poem Reflecting on Slave Labor in Communist China The Society December 31, 2021 Culture, Human Rights in China, Poetry, Readings, Video 17 Comments . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4HH4MeT9Mo . Read the complete poem here: https://classicalpoets.org/2013/12/12/two-psalms/#/ CREDITS Poetry: Evan Mantyk (b. 1982) Audio/Visual Work: Society of Classical...
A Poem for Peng Shuai, by Douglas J. Lanzo The Society November 29, 2021 Culture, Human Rights in China, Poetry 6 Comments . A Silenced Voice Cried Out dedicated to Peng Shuai A voice cried out decrying her assault, Courageously to light the way for truth Against one high up preying on her youth— A Vice Premier accused of this...
Video Poem for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics: ‘Sinister Symbols’ by James A. Tweedie The Society November 28, 2021 Human Rights in China, Poetry, Readings, Video 6 Comments . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxBbaZHU3qk . Audio/Visual Work: Society of Classical Poets Voice-Over: Evan Mantyk Photo: Hans Permana, “Meal time!” (used under creative Commons License CC BY-NC...
A Poem on Enes Kanter Standing up to the CCP, by Damian Robin The Society November 18, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Human Rights in China, Poetry 10 Comments . On the Question of Enes Kanter How do heroes take a stand above the skyline? How face off sharp machinery that spades the earth, Converting humans into demons by the roots— Machines that grind distinctive...
‘A Flood in Zhengzhou’ by Damian Robin The Society September 26, 2021 Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Poetry 11 Comments . on flooding that occurred on July 20, 2021 Each kingdom rose and then it fell; __when bad, the gods destroyed it. If you do not believe in Hell, __there’s no way you’ll avoid it. The Earth has reached...
A Translation of the Peach Garden Oath from Romance of the Three Kingdoms The Society August 31, 2021 Culture, Human Rights in China, Poetry, Translation 14 Comments . The Peach Garden Oath This oath of fellowship is an iconic moment in the first chapter of the historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, by Luo Guanzhong (14th century), in which the main heroes of the...
A Poem for the Chinese Communist Party: ‘WARNING’ by Damian Robin The Society August 14, 2021 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Poetry 5 Comments . W A R N I N G : __You won’t be forgivenfor the belt road you are livingfor flat miles that you have drivenover roadkill stacked and strivenon your blood red ride to hell. __You, the swollen high-ups,laced...
‘China’s Twisted Gymnastics’ by Bethany Mootsey The Society August 3, 2021 Culture, Human Rights in China, Poetry 6 Comments . inspired by this video from communist China: https://youtu.be/b4DmTPtAEbg . All their flipping has flopped, So their stance has flip-flopped __To a more relaxed focus on fun. “It’s a balanced...
