'Blueline And Red Thread' Tanka Poem by Chen-ou Liu

I protest
with my mouth taped:
don't stain my poems
'Blueline and Red Thread'
with your snow-white kiss


Note: The poem above is the title tanka from the first collection of sociopolitical tanka, 'Blueline and Red Thread, ' and it's dedicated to Krzysztof Kieślowski, film director of 'The Three Colors Trilogy' (the collective title of three films, 'Blue, ' 'White, ' and 'Red, ' loosely based on one of the three political ideals in the motto of the French Republic: liberty, equality, fraternity)