Thinker's Invisible Wings Poem by Yiyan Han
Thinker's Invisible Wings
Thoughts are thinker's invisible wings.
Anything but thought can be snatched away
Given up or forgotten,
'Cause it's what a thinker lives for
A thinker must think for the love
Of mankind without self-pity -
Marching on the front line in the war
Of civilization against barbarity,
Democracy against autocracy,
And searching for answers to the ends
Of heaven and earth, and life and death
A thinker must foresee spring in the dead of winter,
Cold snap in the warmth of sunny spring,
Dawn in the dead of night, darkness under the sun,
Civilization in the corner of barbarity,
And the ghost of dictators in a civilized society
A thinker's scenic viewpoint isn't on the top of Mount Tai
Where the sunrise and yellow earth are its beautiful scenes,
Nor is Alps where ocean and green forests in its surrounding.
A thinker has to stand on top of Chomolungma
To watch various civilizations of mankind
O thinker, I long for
Seeing your glittering wings
In the long dark night,
And riding on your invisible wings
To fly with you
By Yiyan Han(c)
2008-04-07
(last modified: 2017-11-10)
The thinker must be all of society, deciding to embrace enhance beauty and nature, not the coming of a scientific war but the coming of a higher state of mind. Resources spend on war would easily cure the results of wasteful industry, global warming, clean the environment and planet, if this was the cause nations choose to uphold and pursue.
The lines I would have quoted are already quoted, in many ways the thinker is the deal of the Renaissance man, the “rebirth”, European civilization striving for a revival of Classical learning and wisdom. People forgot the classical world was also devoted to war and conquest. The problem then and today, was the scientific exploitation of ideas developed for war not peace.
I wrote the poem 'Is It Auspicious Good When A Thinker Is Thinking? ', inspired by the poem 'Thinker's Invisible Wings', by the poet Yiyan Han. Dedicated to the poet Yiyan Han.
Humanity Must Choose humanity must choose to create in aspiring beauty honour life and freedom or risk ashes aggressive war a return to ignorant dark ages with disease poverty agony an age of beauty or devastation it should be an easy logical choice so why build weapons of mass destruction risk civilization ending wars? Inspired by the poem 'Thinker's Invisible Wings' by the poet Yiyan Han. Dedicated to the poet Yiyan Han.
This great poem is a spoken representation of Rodin's, marvelous statue, The Thinker!
You sir, are a wonderful poetic thinker with limitless thoughts and universal wings.
Liked the ultimate stanza. Beautiful and uplifting lines well crafted.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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Humanity must choose to create in beauty, honour life and freedom, or risk the ashes of war, a return to dark ages with the disease, ignorance, poverty and agony of an age of devastation.