The second season of "Poetry Sans Frontiers" continues to convey the spirit of poetry through the form of documentary "video prose poetry", so that people from different countries, different nationalities and different languages can feel that no matter how the world changes, we can all stand together in the name of poetry.
"Poetry Sans Frontiers" is a cross-cultural exchange program launched by CGTN that breaks the language boundaries through the narration and poetry recitation of different countries and characters, employs poetry to tell the story of beautiful love, genuine friendship, fearless courage, love for life, praise for nature and a longing for peace.
"Poetry Sans Frontiers" is a cross-cultural exchange program launched by CGTN that breaks the language boundaries through the narration and poetry recitation of different countries and characters, employs poetry to tell the story of beautiful love, genuine friendship, fearless courage, love for life, praise for nature and a longing for peace.
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00:33 It's memories that wake you up at night in cold sweats.
00:38 It's memories.
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00:42 It displaced many people.
00:44 Families lost their loved ones.
00:47 Some of the families were entirely wiped out.
00:50 Some villages were entirely wiped out in this clash.
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02:05 It automatically reminds me of home.
02:18 I was born and raised in Kathmandu.
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02:23 When I was growing up, Kathmandu
02:32 was small, mysterious, very mystique,
02:37 and it had a beautiful feeling.
02:41 Autumn, because of the colors of the leaves,
02:43 the sky is generally blue.
02:45 As a child, we would take the bus,
02:47 and I would always want to sit at the window seat.
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02:54 So I could look out at the towering mountains,
03:02 the countless waterfalls, the river that went through.
03:06 And I used to think, someday I want
03:08 to climb and see what's beneath and underneath and beyond it.
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03:17 But many things has happened in the country
03:19 since I was growing up, and we had internal conflict.
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03:25 For a very long time, which displaced many people,
03:37 families lost their loved ones.
03:42 Some of the families were entirely wiped out.
03:45 Some villages were entirely wiped out in this clash.
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03:51 Comes at a tremendous cost for the families,
03:59 for the community, and even for the country.
04:01 Generational impact on family members.
04:06 Women and men and people affected by war and conflict
04:09 are generally vulnerable.
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12:30 There is no winner in war.
12:42 It's the consequence of the war that has on people,
12:48 on loss of life, on the deterioration
12:50 of quality of life.
12:52 But also, it has deeper consequences.
12:57 Sometimes we forget about that.
12:59 There is so much mental health issue that people encounter.
13:03 That has to do with lack of peace.
13:06 So peace is absolutely important.
13:09 OK, OK, OK.
13:18 The most poetic thing about being an educator
13:22 is when the students will come and give me a hug.
13:26 Well, it saved me.
13:34 My own sons saved my life more than they will ever know.
13:37 Every day is a new day.
13:43 Every day, every sunrise, you look at it
13:46 like it's your last sunrise.
13:48 Because you just don't know when it will be your last one.
13:56 And I understand that.
14:00 I've lost a lot of people suddenly.
14:02 So life is a gift.
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14:56 [HEAVY BREATHING]
14:59 For over 20 years, I don't think I've slept more than four hours.
15:13 It's memories that wake you up at night.
15:17 And cold sweats.
15:19 It's memories.
15:23 And if there are people who want to start a war,
15:26 then these are people who never saw a war.
15:29 You know, a good two, three, four hours every night.
15:41 It was tearing me apart.
15:43 Oh, I was so tired.
15:44 And I was going crazy.
15:48 And I saw myself going down a path that
15:50 would take me away from my sons.
15:52 So I said, OK.
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15:58 There were times in my life where I was in a dark place.
16:04 And I didn't know if I was going to see the sun again.
16:11 I thought maybe this was going to be my last day on Earth.
16:21 During the darkest moment in my life,
16:24 I saw a teacher do something amazing
16:27 in the class in the middle of a battle.
16:29 The teacher's giving a math class.
16:35 And when the battle starts, an old Afghan teacher stands up.
16:41 And it's a classroom with no windows, half a roof,
16:44 and bullet holes everywhere.
16:47 And three meters out the window, people are shooting.
16:51 And this teacher, when the battle starts
16:53 and is in the middle of the classroom, stands up calmly,
16:56 claps his hands twice.
16:58 All the students stood up, took their desks,
17:01 put it on the side.
17:03 And they get down their little bellies, kids from 5 to 12.
17:08 And they continued the lesson.
17:11 They are-- there's screams outside.
17:13 And it's a life.
17:14 And these kids are in the lesson.
17:17 And the teacher had their attention.
17:20 And the whole world did not exist.
17:22 From that situation, I came to an understanding
17:33 that what I want to be, I want to be a teacher.
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17:49 I realized that through education,
17:54 we can change the world, not through guns.
17:56 Babies are born with no hate.
18:03 I don't think education should teach children to hate anybody.
18:12 What does peace in the world mean to me?
18:17 It means that my sons can grow old in a safe world.
18:24 It means that my grandchildren can grow old in a safer world.
18:39 Well, do I still have problems?
18:43 Yes, I still have problems.
18:47 Normally, you know, for physical injuries,
18:49 it shouldn't be a problem.
18:51 But getting that constant psychiatric help
18:54 that you might need, or if you become an addict,
18:58 getting that recovery, all of that, it's still issues.
19:02 I've learned to deal with it.
19:08 The problems I had with sleep and with pain,
19:11 I see it as symptoms of the experiences that I had.
19:18 And so I learned to live with it.
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19:32 Don't know why I'm still afraid.
19:34 If you weren't real, I'd make you up now.
19:41 So that I could follow through.
19:43 I know that your love is true and deep as the sea.
19:50 But right now, everything you want is wrong.
19:55 And right now, I'll be--
19:58 [BELL RINGING]
20:02 [MUSIC PLAYING]
20:05 No difference by Shel Silverstein.
20:11 Small as a peanut, big as a giant,
20:16 we're all the same size when we turn off the light.
20:20 Rich as a sultan, poor as a mite,
20:24 we're all worth the same when we turn off the light.
20:28 Red, black, or orange, yellow, or white,
20:33 we all look the same when we turn off the light.
20:37 So maybe the way to make everything right
20:41 is for God to just reach out and turn off the light.
20:45 I like that poem because it reminds me
20:52 that we're all the same.
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21:28 And for that, I think it's inherent in all of us.
21:35 Peace is innate in all of us.
21:37 Suhair Hamad is a Palestinian-American poet.
21:46 Her parents came from Palestine as refugees.
21:50 They went to Amman, Jordan.
21:52 And she was born there.
21:54 She is a champion for peace.
21:57 Many of her poems are about women
22:00 and about women's reclaiming and resilience
22:04 in conflict and crisis.
22:06 So I am profoundly, profoundly inspired by her position,
22:12 formative belief in the act of nonviolence,
22:16 and her denunciation of conflict and war in more general,
22:21 and also acting in the same way,
22:23 and yet staying resilient and standing on her feet and ground
22:27 and saying no to violence.
22:29 [MUSIC PLAYING]
22:32 "What I Will" by Suhair Hamad.
22:43 I will not dance to your war drum.
22:45 I will not lend my soul nor my bones to your war drum.
22:49 I will not dance to your beating.
22:51 I know that beat.
22:53 It is lifeless.
22:55 I know intimately that skin you're hitting.
22:58 I was alive once, haunted, stolen, stretched.
23:02 I will not dance to your drummed-up war.
23:05 I will not pop, spin, break for you.
23:10 I will not hate for you or even hate you.
23:13 I will not kill for you.
23:15 Especially, I will not die for you.
23:19 I will not mourn the dead with murder nor suicide.
23:23 I will not side with you nor dance to bombs,
23:27 because everyone is dancing.
23:29 Everyone can be wrong.
23:31 Life is not a right, not coloratum, not casual.
23:36 I will not forget where I come from.
23:38 I will craft my own drum, gather my beloved nearer,
23:42 and our chanting will be dancing.
23:44 Our humming will be drumming.
23:46 I will not be played.
23:48 I will not lend my name nor my rhythm to your beat.
23:53 I will dance and resist and dance.
23:57 This heartbeat is louder than death.
23:59 Your war drum ain't louder than this breath.
24:04 [Music]
24:07 We observe the stars, record the flight of birds,
24:27 observe the flood of rivers or the decline of the empire.
24:33 Every human weakness is reflected in it.
24:38 Therefore, humans have written down the alternation of war and peace
24:42 with the entire history.
24:48 But because of this, we have never given up the greatness of singing the human nature.
24:54 Therefore, we will not give up on imagination.
24:59 Imagine that there is no war in the world, no greed, no hunger.
25:08 Imagine that all humans share the world.
25:16 [Music]
25:19 The thatched roof slants low.
25:26 Beside the brook, green grasses grow.
25:29 In the precious world of men, I am living.
25:32 Strong is the sunlight.
25:34 Tender is the ripple.
25:36 Humans are as happy as plants.
25:39 Love is as happy as rain.
25:43 And you, while you are running away, think of others.
25:46 Do not forget those who ask for peace.
25:49 And in the twilight of the sleeping quarter, the flame of my candle is lit.
25:54 The cannons are still warm.
25:56 And the blood has not completely absorbed the sand.
25:59 Life is just what is done.
26:03 I don't want anything to do with death.
26:06 I am a man who has never been afraid of death.
26:11 I see the sun rises among the rainbow, green grass and red roses.
26:20 I see the sun rises among the rainbow, green grass and red roses.
26:28 I see the sun rises among the rainbow, green grass and red roses.
26:33 I see the sun rises among the rainbow, green grass and red roses.
26:36 Under its palm, there is peace.
26:41 For the people, their memory passes to the memory of peace.
26:45 Goodbye and farewell to wars.
26:47 Goodbye and farewell to disputes.
26:49 The fields are full.
26:51 The flowers are in full bloom.
26:53 Goodbye and farewell to disputes.
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