Empty Chair

Some social media and forums, such as Wechat and Wenxuecity were flooded with celebrations of the 100th birthday of the Chinese Communist Party recently. Those posts reminded me to pay a tribute to Xiaobo Liu who passed away on June 13th, 2017. 

Empty chair

An empty chair
Alone
Waiting in a wilderness
On the other side of the mountain
Waves of people
Chanting the preach in one voice
Overwhelming the beckoning of freedom
And the empty chair
Staying with hope
Till the wilderness becomes an ocean
Covered by snow-white lotus

A tribute to Xiaobo Liu, a dissident who fought for democracy in the Communist China and died of liver cancer while serving his jail time. An empty chair was staged at the award ceremony when he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. © a day ago, XX   freedom   
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Jenny Middleton - Your AN add an extra dimension to the poignancy of your imagery XX - and I like how you create a sense of stillness with the phrasing of your lines - isolating some words then creating a contrast with the 'waves of voices' the final image of the lotus is beautiful and very sad. Lovely share.9 hours ago   

Jayce6 - Wonderful tribute. You used some good imagery here.

Thanks for sharing! a day ago  

 

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• 发篇旧文，和你一起致敬。 -ibelieu- ♀ (11112 bytes) () 07/02/2021 postreply 18:04:13

• 赞！ -天玉之- ♀ (0 bytes) () 07/03/2021 postreply 19:16:24

• 颤音的诗写得真好。写评论的Jenny是以前评价infinity的那个Jenny吗？ -beautifulwind- ♀ (0 bytes) () 07/02/2021 postreply 20:39:52

• 谢谢美风版主， 是的 -颤音- ♂ (0 bytes) () 07/03/2021 postreply 18:06:54

• 好诗！赞！ -Ha65494- ♀ (0 bytes) () 07/02/2021 postreply 20:50:39

• 你的英文诗都好棒！厉害 -甜虫虫- ♀ (0 bytes) () 07/03/2021 postreply 11:49:38

• 谢谢读贴鼓励 -颤音- ♂ (0 bytes) () 07/03/2021 postreply 18:07:27

• 赞！我也发首，绑一下吧 ：） -天玉之- ♀ (0 bytes) () 07/03/2021 postreply 19:18:03

• The "empty chair" is a seat of humanity denied. -LYJiang- ♂ (0 bytes) () 07/04/2021 postreply 07:51:17