upwards from City Yangon

distance is 179 mile

that’s “Thirikhitaya”, my native town

got back in autumn with memorials saved long time

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“Thirikhitaya” in the past

it is graceful land..

motherland of “Pu” ethnics..

currently called “Pyay” township

that’s actually old palace of “Pu”

just lay on bank of “Ayeyarwaddy”

very pleasant place

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two blind brothers in legend

met by chance with an ogress called “Sandramuni”

made rafting downwards together along “Ayeyarwaddy”

many cities emerged in history

Sitkine , Saku , Salin ,  so..so..

then arrived to “Thirikhitaya”

fortune led them to meet a rural virgin more

she ever came to fetch water from “Ayeyarwaddy”

their love story started at a hermit’s monastery

later on…

fabulous love story of King “Douttabaung” and Queen “Biekthanoe”

there were wars…romance…

all the time, “Ayeyarwaddy” watched quietly and smiling

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with historic late dreams

unforgettable memory of past

our blood flows down on this land

she kept always our mythical things

she is “Ayeyarwaddy”

a bride of  our history

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a thing learnt in Geography

“Ayeyarwaddy” possesses 4 defiles

Yes..that’s right

the final and last defile

if look at it from “Thirikhitaya or Pyay”

seems near before “Pyay”

at present time, my worry is ..

4 defiles will be displaced, in what number ?

not cool…ever I feel

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our “Ayeyarwaddy”

proud of her virginity ever

nowadays,  changed seriously

no longer proud of great existence

it became less water

but with massive sand plains 

when I stand on bank and look around

a piece of song of Singer-Khin Wunn flew in wind

xxx “Ayeyarwaddy” xx “Ayeyarwaddy” xx “Ayeyarwaddy”xxx

xxx silent and matured her water surface

xxx neat and tidy her flow

xxx look at her magnificent appearance or her majesty

xxx Of course… she is lord of nature

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if it is a glance from Mount “Mingyi”

the beautiful long bridge ” Nawadday” on “Ayeyarwaddy”

not sees as river-crossing bridge

but a bridge crossing on wide sand plain

I just could believe faintly on its reality

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no money gains no impression

not much money results again in few friends

in this real world

like annihilating on everything in sight

greedy people ruined the environment

few water in river

then the nature of river lost

some rivers became creeks

some rivers became brooks

some rivers disappeared

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it is law of nature

born – oldness – illness – death

whoever..when time is matured

however…

some …some have faced oldness – illness – death

but time is not matured yet for them

really!  “Ayeyarwaddy” is like that

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from 2011 to coming years in future

if I imagine forwards

“Ayeyarwaddy” in 2015

“Ayeyarwaddy” in 2020

“Ayeyarwaddy” in 2025

“Ayeyarwaddy” in 2030

she will be disappeared ? in which year ?

a series of my unsleeping nights

with a full of anxious thoughts

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“Ayeyarwaddy”

a significant river from Myanmar

we owe her gratitude

she served us since many many years ago

gracefully and greatly

she get our stomach satisfied

she get our ways paved

our benefactor “Ayeyarwaddy”

we can’t leave you in history

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this is a snap  “Ayeyarwaddy” portrait

 drawn by a native but living away from “Pyay”

“Ayeyarwaddy”  

starting from a joining point of Maykha and Melikha

ending at Delta

along the river route

there were a thousands of riverside townships and villages

among those townships and villages

from even small villages to large townships

Poems about “Ayeyarwaddy”

already written many

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Deterioration of  “Ayeyarwaddy”

( in fact) it was killed

a lot of things to say..  a lot .. a lot 

not a story

soul of “Ayeyarwaddy”

nearly to be gone away

Save it!

S..A..V..E     it !    

( Translated to “Ayeyarwaddy poem” of Soe Taw Dar – Cartoonist )

29 September 2011 , 2:05 AM ( Thursday)