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Poetry | Zhao Qiong: "A Steel Gun on the Battlefield's Positive Rhetoric"

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Poetry | Zhao Qiong: "A Steel Gun on the Battlefield's Positive Rhetoric"

Zhao Qiong, male, born in 1966 in Jinnan. He is the author of 5 poetry collections, and has won several awards such as "Poetry Journal" and "People's Literature". His poems have appeared in "People's Liberation Army Daily", "People's Liberation Army Literature and Art", "Stars", "Green Wind", "Poetry Monthly", "Poetry Tide", "Beijing Literature", "Anhui Literature", "Shanxi Literature", etc., and have been included in a variety of poetry anthologies.

Poetry | Zhao Qiong: "A Steel Gun on the Battlefield's Positive Rhetoric"

A Steel Gun's Positive Rhetoric on the Battlefield (Group Poems)

■ Zhao Qiong

All the battlefields will surely be occupied by flowers

In the eyes of a steel gun

The battlefield is tolerant

Can make life and death a big deal

Engage in free-form combat

Charge, fight, crawl or stand are permitted

Shouting is allowed, and it is allowed

The blood that comes out of the teeth

Pass the teeth again and swallow back into the stomach

Allow flesh and blood to collide with steel around the main peak

Allow some of the legs to expose the stubble

Or arms, toward victory

Grind with the land

However, in the heart of a steel gun

The battlefield is even more one

A metaphor that is narrow almost harsh

The banner that allows only the victor is like a flower

Bloom here. Like in the mountains

In spring, only plants with roots and whiskers are allowed

Survive like the people who live here

More like all that was ever here

Bloomed buds

Starting from the realm of "victory"

To make a metaphor. In the perception of a steel gun

The battlefield is a real and invisible subject

Here, it can make some die

Completely free from the cage of being bound by abstraction

Let those figures who have ever charged

Shaped like a pine, lush and thick. Stubble after stubble

To increase the heights, these need to defend the pinnacle

The body of the god of war, no wrinkles

Between battles, place the last bullet

The moment it pressed into the chamber of the gun

The sun hanging overhead, inexplicably

Layer after layer of halo appears

It was like autumn, before his eyes

Rendered

The color and texture of gold

After all, the season is in autumn

Rice and fruity aromas, like the ones that are breaking through

Those soldiers

In the siege of layers of smoke

Still want the war information

Pass to peace

It's just an exercise

But in the hearts of every participant

Remind yourself at all times:

It must be peeled off completely

A painting skin created by the war department

This is the real purpose of the exercise

Like the company commander who has been discharged from the army for many years

The famous sentence that remained in the company -

Exercises are not acting

No big dream will ever be

Appear in real dreams

War always happens by chance

But all the gods of war

They must all be the embodiment of fearlessness

God of War does not die

The body of the God of War

Destined to be strong, powerful, and indestructible

And, up and down, there is not a single wrinkle

The sound of a gun being wiped

Some snowflakes remember

It's sharp

Some raindrops can't be forgotten

It's warm

When a flower is a locust flower

With polished barrels

Pass by and give back

The land that once gave birth to it

Spring, above the earth

Only then did it really stand firm

When all the sprouts of rice are tender

All broke ground

Buds of all branches

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Autumn has stood at the highest point of the mission

Will harvest with peace, in the way of blueprints

Draw carefully

At the moment, all year round

A gun-scavenger who never stops

Those around him

Looking forward to the flowering of chrysanthemum seedlings

And the sorghum that is being jointed in the ears

The tone of the "Lullaby" in the mouth of the mother

Not bad at all

War horses in winter

Supposedly, a year of war horses

There are no four seasons

Like the same garrison

Its owner

In the eyes of the war horse

Seasons are distributed to farmland

Private items

It can also be distributed to mountain flowers

As well as accompanying mountain flowers to bloom

Those creeks

The responsibility of the war horse

Given by the name of the warhorse

If you have to compare it to a farmer

All cavalry, yes

It is called above the ridge

Those grain ears

War horses galloped under the sky all their lives

Battle knives and steel guns

It is what it desires to fly

A pair of wings

Snowfields, gravel, meadows, thorns

At the feet of every war horse

White clouds in the blue sky

It's the war horses in winter

Real tracks

Stone Notes

In the Galwan Valley, the wind is sharp

Like a knife

Cut out a blade-like mountain

Again and again, cut open the lake

Never lack of oxygen in the throat

Some stones, on the peaks

The japanese wind passes on the blade

Like stars, it only shines at night

More often, like the moon

Hanging

Be a role model for the stones

I have not climbed the plateau

Not in the Galwan Valley

Received a drop of rain

Or the weight of a snowflake

But I know better than anyone

Join this stone of steel

Composition of the team

You have to have all the stones

Wind bone and integrity

In the wind, all hard

Heroes like stones have been crushed

Turn yourself into more stones

Go fend off more blades

Or sharpen a more mean knife edge

Because I'm in it

I had to do my best

Live yourself as a boundary monument

Thus becoming their substitute

Autumn in the eyes of a warrior

Guard the autumn under an autumn sun

Guard every one that grows in autumn

The fruit of the storm with yourself

And every grain, as with yourself

Matures in every grain of rice that is sharpened

At the same time, he also works with a red leaf

Together, reminisce about one

Flowers that bloom in the spring

How at some point after spring

The end result

In the eyes of a warrior

Autumn, of course, is due to harvest

Attributed to the vastness after the harvest

And always believe in it

Sow every wisp of autumn sun in the autumn fields

It's all over the world

The peace of being desired for riches

Collect them one by one

In the late autumn, warriors are wiping their guns

Like the other three seasons

scrupulous

Like all the flowers at the moment

All in the deepest recesses of the root whiskers

Planning for the coming year

The future of every fruit

Some flowers bloom in late autumn

Drive in a field or field outside the barracks

It opened a bit late, though

But the original intention of becoming a fruit

Let them be with the fruits that have already borne fruit

Appear to be working harder, and harder

——Published in PEOPLE's Liberation Army Literature and Art, No. 2, 2022

Original edit | Tang Ying

Coordinate the review of | Whoa

| issued Wen Qingli

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