23.07.2006
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Mon
We come from the Northwest
somewhere in a distant history
Whether our land then occupied
or we occupied here
Didn’t cross a sea but along the rivers:
Maenam, Salween and Irrawaddy
Mountains, plains and a lot of teaks;
Perhaps, we left the fertile North
for more fertile sea
Whether then a sea was there
but now with us here
We’ve loved our paddy,
praised with tales and festivals
And learned to cross the Bangla Sea;
Broods of Mon-kind,
peace loving Buddhists,
we’re of the paddy
Proud of our shrines, and generosity,
Indebted to ancestors, a race of dignity
They built certain kingdoms in SE Asia:
Pegu, Thaton, Haripunjaya and Dvaravati
Once we lost, twice we lost,
but we’ll rebuild a peaceful society;
Min Khin Kyaw
(copyright©wetfire)
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Feraya said _
Dear Min Khin Kyaw, thank you for the lovely poem about Mon people. I am sure that one day you will rebuild a peaceful society which you deserve.
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