Today September 22nd, the Solidarity movement in Poland was born in 1980.
Five hundred years ago a kingdom of enlightenment,
a paragon for every country, greatest among nations,
she has fallen ever since to constantly more agonizing depths
of tragedy, disaster, ruin, national catastrophe and what is worse.
Engulfed by Russia, Austria and Germany, she has like no other nation
bled to death not only once but ever and again,
as if the first complete annihilation was not total and enough
but had to thoroughly be followed by oppression, tyranny,
and what is worse. The second world war was the worst finale
that has ever been experienced by a nation persecuted by disasters,
culminating in the utter and grotesque destruction of the capital,
the Warsaw Ghetto marking the supreme atrocity of history.
Still, Poland rises once again from smoking ruins to survive
and start another revolution but of freedom this time,
giving birth this very day to Solidarnosc,
that heroically started the entire liberation of all eastern Europe.
Germany and Russia, that so gluttonously wallowed in devouring Poland
are no more as autocratic empires but went to dust and in dishonour,
while the Poles survived them with their dreams and hopes of freedom
to eventually make dictatorial oppression vanish from all Europe
by showing us the way to make the Berlin Wall and Soviet Union collapse.
Poetry by Christian Lanciai
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Written on 2007-09-22 at 12:27
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Poland
Five hundred years ago a kingdom of enlightenment,
a paragon for every country, greatest among nations,
she has fallen ever since to constantly more agonizing depths
of tragedy, disaster, ruin, national catastrophe and what is worse.
Engulfed by Russia, Austria and Germany, she has like no other nation
bled to death not only once but ever and again,
as if the first complete annihilation was not total and enough
but had to thoroughly be followed by oppression, tyranny,
and what is worse. The second world war was the worst finale
that has ever been experienced by a nation persecuted by disasters,
culminating in the utter and grotesque destruction of the capital,
the Warsaw Ghetto marking the supreme atrocity of history.
Still, Poland rises once again from smoking ruins to survive
and start another revolution but of freedom this time,
giving birth this very day to Solidarnosc,
that heroically started the entire liberation of all eastern Europe.
Germany and Russia, that so gluttonously wallowed in devouring Poland
are no more as autocratic empires but went to dust and in dishonour,
while the Poles survived them with their dreams and hopes of freedom
to eventually make dictatorial oppression vanish from all Europe
by showing us the way to make the Berlin Wall and Soviet Union collapse.
Poetry by Christian Lanciai
Read 456 times
Written on 2007-09-22 at 12:27
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