Active Three-Revolution Team Members Visit Mangyongdae

Active Three-Revolution Team Members Visit Mangyongdae*

by C. Charles Bley

The participants visited the birthplace

on bouquets before the graves

and silent round the Museum,

they visited his old home.

historic relics, the members.

they visited the Exhibition.




*The full article "Active Three-Revolution Team Members Visit Mangyongdae" originally appeared 2.26.2013 on the website Rodong Sinmun. Title of article and name of publication are used here without permission.

This project, 소거법 (Elimination), is defined by the application of poetic erasure to text from North Korean government "news sources" - with whose worldview the resulting poems are intended to clash, in their own small way.
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Chief of KPA Panmunjom Mission Sends Telephone Message to U.S. Forces Commander in S. Korea

Chief of KPA Panmunjom Mission Sends Telephone Message to U.S. Forces Commander in S. Korea*

by C.Charles Bley

The dangerous pressure

against it launch legitimate

right to protect it.

Foal Eagle military

the March to dark clouds

hang over abroad.

such sleight of hand

touch-and-go hostile acts

and racket, the message:

know where war may

break with its just satellite

and its sovereignty.

your war

by the cover

of time moment fate

hung by a thread.




*The full article "Chief of KPA Panmunjom Mission Sends Telephone Message to U.S. Forces Commander in S. Korea" originally appeared 2.25.2013 on the website Rodong Sinmun. Title of article and name of publication are used here without permission.

This project, 소거법 (Elimination), is defined by the application of poetic erasure to text from North Korean government "news sources" - with whose worldview the resulting poems are intended to clash, in their own small way.
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Waiting for Decisive Battle

Waiting for Decisive Battle*

by C. Charles Bley

now in an ecstasy

over the underground

test by our scientists.

welcoming crowd we see

Party official He

heroes the citizens

us a great enemy

damn suffered crushing in

senses again.

“won't we reduce

his den to dust”

medicine

nuke

nuke

thunder-bolt rock

no armed provoker.

to foil the reckless

machinations

come at us like lions

panic-stricken joy raging

burning hatred Yankee

a wolf

piercing, declares:

Fatherland Liberation

War

Korea

*The full article "Waiting for Decisive Battle" originally appeared 2.23.2013 on the website Rodong Sinmun. Title of article and name of publication are used here without permission.

This project, 소거법 (Elimination), is defined by the application of poetic erasure to text from North Korean government "news sources" - with whose worldview the resulting poems are intended to clash, in their own small way.
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Oppose "Preemptive Strike" With Merciless Counterblow

Oppose “Preemptive Strike” With Merciless Counterblow*

by C. Charles Bley

perpetrating grave maneuvers

forestalling attack.

assembly last, prattled the north's use

of nukes,

reconfirmation of a scheme

forestalling attack.

days command and provocation,

beating war missile strikes

and getting cut.

that traitor guided the public scene

of the firing

of real action.

missiles are objects.

time revealed their moves

a war came into power

puppet arms and allegedly supremacy.

a plan to build the system

countering to some threat

forestalling attack.

           

"an illusion, an idle onlooker

pluck deal strike,"

those who called for breaks say.

           

commit with silly expectation,

miserable ruin.

*The full article "Oppose "Preemptive Strike" With Merciless Counterblow" originally appeared 2.23.2013 on the website Rodong Sinmun. Title of article and name of publication are used here without permission.
This project, 소거법 (Elimination), is defined by the application of poetic erasure to text from North Korean government "news sources" - with whose worldview the resulting poems are intended to clash, in their own small way.
자유 행동