Section: «Poems»
Verse (ancient Greek ὁ στίχος — row, structure), a term in versification used in several meanings:
artistic speech organized by division into rhythmically commensurate segments; poetry in the narrow sense; in particular, it implies the properties of versification of a particular tradition ("antique verse", "Akhmatova's verse", etc.);
a line of poetic text organized according to a certain rhythmic pattern ("My uncle of the most honest rules").
March From Tingchow To Changsha
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..
© Mao Zedong
Tapoti
Red, orange, yellow, green,blue, violet, indigo:Who is dancing with theserainbow colours in the sky?Air after rain, slanting sun:mountains and passes..
© Mao Zedong
Huichang
Soon dawn will break in the east.Do not say 'You start too early';Crossing these blue hills adds nothing to one's years,The landscape here is beyond..
© Mao Zedong
Reply To A Friend
White clouds are sailing above Mount Chiuyi;Riding the wind, the Princesses descend the green hills.Once they speckled the bamboos with their profuse..
© Mao Zedong
Against The First Encirclement Campaign
Forests blaze red beneath the frosty sky,The wrath of Heaven's armies soars to the clouds.Mist veils Lungkang, its thousand peaks blurred.All cry out..
© Mao Zedong
Chingkangshan
Below the hills fly our flags and banners,Above the hilltops sound our bugles and drums.The foe encircles us thousands strong,Steadfastly we stand..
© Mao Zedong
Loushan Pass
Fierce the west wind,Wild geese cry under the frosty morning moon.Under the frosty morning moonHorses' hooves clattering,Bugles sobbing low.Idle..
© Mao Zedong
Reply To Comrade Kuo Mo-Jo
A thunderstorm burst over the earth,So a devil rose from a heap of white bones.The deluded monk was not beyond the light,But the malignant demon must..
© Mao Zedong
Reascending Chingkangshan
I have long aspired to reach for the cloudsAnd I again ascend Chingkangshan.Coming from afar to view our old haunt, I find new scenes replacing the..
© Mao Zedong
Farewell To The God Of Plague
So many green streams and blue hills, but to what avail ?This tiny creature left even Hua To powerless!Hundreds of villages choked with weeds, men..
© Mao Zedong
Reply To Comrade Kuo Mo-Jo
On this tiny globeA few flies dash themselves against the wall,Humming without cease,Sometimes shrilling,Sometimes moaning.Ants on the locust tree..
© Mao Zedong
Kunlun
Far above the earth, into the blue,You, wild Kunlun, have seenAll that was fairest in the world of men.Your three million white jade dragons in..
© Mao Zedong
Snow
North country scene:A hundred leagues locked in ice,A thousand leagues of whirling snow.Both sides of the Great WallOne single white immensity.The..
© Mao Zedong
The Long March
The Red Army fears not the trials of the March,Holding light ten thousand crags and torrents.The Five Ridges wind like gentle ripplesAnd the majestic..
© Mao Zedong
Changsha
Alone I stand in the autumn coldOn the tip of Orange Island,The Hsiang flowing northward;I see a thousand hills crimsoned throughBy their serried..
© Mao Zedong
Militia Women Inscription On A Photograph
How bright and brave they look, shouldering five-foot riflesOn the parade ground lit up by the first gleams of day.China's daughters have..
© Mao Zedong
Mount Liupan
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 menWe who have already..
© Mao Zedong
Swimming
I have just drunk the waters of ChangshaAnd come to eat the fish of Wuchang.Now I am swimming across the great Yangtze,Looking afar to the open sky..
© Mao Zedong
Whether I Shut The Door
Whether I shut the doorPain has a way to boreLife is a day offshoreOar, and oar, and oarSometimes, I think, I thinkAnd else I do, ignoreOnce, a..
© Muhammad Ali
Tradition
II would learnWhat they meantThat with timeWhen would meltFrozen wordsThat I keptIIHard was thatTo keep them heldAnd I was doneMet some folksDropped..
© Muhammad Ali
Ripples
One is truthAny shade elseLies in mePast survivesAnyhow, presentDies in meFolks should learnHow they dieRise in meFool, I shoutHe plays quietWise in..
© Muhammad Ali
Experience
Tireless distanceNeither it restsNor do IApart destinationAlways the findingsSatisfy myselfOn the wayTo an illusion
© Muhammad Ali