Bandula Park
Where DOE A YAE I took place some days
ago, let’s start again to write.
To write the poem
(…)
Our believes were flying up high like
hawks
Arab spring has just started now
Myanmar’s spring was already started
since 8.8.88
Delicate smell of the spring suffocated
fascist dictators (…)
Winning democracy is…. DOE A YAE….
DOE A YAE!(...)
(From Victory of KwutDawn, written by
Dr Lwanswe on blog Moemakha 2014?)
Let’s start to write... Let’s start to write on banyan
leaves…
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And let’s walk,walk, walk…
Shangila Bridge
Let’s continue to write, to copy the
poem, to learn it by heart...
Let’s give poems to people.
“Let Poetry be our absolute weapon”
wrote the belgian writer Raoul Vaneigem.
Let’s spread poem in the air from the
bridge to the road where people where protestating in 88 for rights.
Rights for democracy. And let’s walk walk walk….
Bogyoke Market
Let’s sit on the military chair
lended by a shop seller.
Let’s sit and write this poem where
it was written also:
“(…) Warcraft by Bogyoke was not
for killing civilians.
Sixth grader Sein Lwin, a blind deep
fool...”
And let’s walk in the direction of
Shwedagon Pagoda
Maha Wizaya Pagoda
Let’s sit again, facing an old woman
who is selling birds to spread it in the sky for birthday wishes.
Let’s sit and write and give poems
and spread one leaf in the water bassin.
And let’s walk walk walk and follow
Yadanar and Htun
People Park
Let’s sit under a beautiful tree in a
park where lovers meet
Let’s sit and write the poem that I
know now by heart on 8 banyan leaves in memory to 8.8.88.
Let’s put 8 candles between each toe,
echoing the image Elvira Santamaria created some years ago in memory
to the El Mozote Massacre in Salvador in 1981.
Let’s memorize about all massacred
people in the world.
Let poems to be part of the soil for
next lovers who will come under this tree and let’s walk.
Walk and cross the park.
Htein Naing Htun feels tired. Never
force people. Let’s stop to walk and take bus.
In the bus let’s continue to write on
a leaf and give this to a passenger. Give give give.
H Ledan Bridge
At the middle of homeless children,
do you want to continue here? ask Yadanar
I hesitate OK let’s try….
Here, I can’t write all the poem.
I can just write DOE A YAE! DOE A YAE!
What does it mean DOE A YAE! DOE A YAE!
What are rights of these children and
parents here and now?
What means democracy here and now?
What means democracy and peace without
equality?
Facing children who just ask for
chalks…. what’s their power?
The philosopher Pierre Ansay juste
wrote me “La puissance crée, le pouvoir empêche”…
Let’s take another bus and continue
on the Inya Lake Pyay Road where scores of students were killed
and some were under water until they
are drownded.
Inya Lake
Let the military chair to seat between
rocks facing lake. Let’s write again on 8 leaves.
Let homeless children to come around.
Let’s try to share a common moment.
Yadanar says they come to you
because you don’t make difference...
Let’s learn from these children.
Let’s see how they are part from the
earth.
They play, they enjoy the moment of
“here and now” without expecting anything maybe.
Don’t expect anything from the other,
from the “world”.
Let’s spread one leaf on the lake,
even if it’s illegal.
Leaves doesn’t damage the water.
Leaves, let them float on the water.
Let it be Let it be….
Let’s burn this book written by Dr
Maung Maung who destroyed this country
as Cool Man(AK) said.
Let’s burn even if it’s illegal.
Legality doesn’t mean justice…
Children and me are taking care of the
fire.
Let it burn let it burn…
Let’s observe together the fire near
water on this earth.
We don’t speak the same language
They probably don’t know about this
book
But let this moment to exist…
Some human hearts together on this
earth…
RESILIENCE
Two “I” like Imagine
Can we imagine a country without any
boundary?
“E” is the last letter of the word
Resilience
“E”like End
Let’s imagine that End is the
beginning of something else…
Photos © Béatrice Didier & Yadanar Win
This performance was created by Béatrice Didier in the context of the
project Performance Art y Resiliencia, conceived by Elvira Santamaria, hosted by New Zero Art Space
A special thanks to Yadanar Win, Htet Naing Htun and Zun Thu.
A special thanks to Yadanar Win, Htet Naing Htun and Zun Thu.
With the support of Walllonie Bruxelles International
