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<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Images of the 1956 Hungarian revolution<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Instead of a Tombstone <\/p>\n He shyly closed the lids of darkened eyes,<\/p>\n a small red flower blossomed on his breast.<\/p>\n A smile still lingered on his mouth\u2019s surprise<\/p>\n as if at home he slept and loved his rest…<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The little hero in the filth is laid<\/p>\n (around him fall his bread-loaves in the mud)<\/p>\n just as but now he paced the barricade \u2013<\/p>\n in vain let fall his bomb, and shed his blood…<\/p>\n <\/p>\n He shyly closed the lids of darkened eyes,<\/p>\n a small red flower blossomed on his breast.<\/p>\n Beside his corpse a steaming gutter lies.<\/p>\n The world sings victory, but signs a jest.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Thomas Orsz\u00e1g-Land<\/strong>\u2019s <\/strong>next book will be THE SURVIVORS: Holocaust Poetry for Our Time, to be published by Smokestack Press, England, in\u00a0 2014.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Note:\u00a0 This poem was translated from the Hungarian & Edited by Watson Kirkconnell The Author of this poem is an award-winning foreign correspondent who gained his first experience in war reporting on the streets of his native Budapest during the anti-Soviet revolution of October\/November, 1956. The poem was first published by the revolutionary newspaper The Hungarian Independent that employed him as a cab reporter. It is still performed from time to time at celebrations marking the doomed revolution, and it has been just published in an anthology \u2013 Magyar \u00fcnnepepek, K\u00f6zl\u00f6nty & Lapkiad\u00f3, Budapest, 2013 \u2013 intended mostly for school children. The present translation is by the late-great Watson Kirkconnell, doyen of translators of Hungarian literature into English, who was president of Acadia University in Nova Scotia, Canada, when Orsz\u00e1g-Land read philosophy there in the years following the revolution.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Images of the 1956 Hungarian revolution \u00a0 Instead of a Tombstone He shyly closed the lids of darkened eyes, a small red flower blossomed on his breast. A smile still lingered on his mouth\u2019s surprise as if at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5899"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5906,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5899\/revisions\/5906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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