Category: Literature

Burmese Literature collection with Poems, Essays, Short-Stories, Thoughts, Books, Classics, All Others

Maung Lu Hmwe – Racing Against the Cicadas (Essay)

Maung Lu Hmwe – Racing Against the CicadasMoeMaKa, April 4, 2026 “Teacher, have you abandoned our little village?”A message like that came from a teacher in charge of a school for displaced children. Maung Lu Hmwe replied that he was…

Maung Lu Hmwe – When the Heat Brings a Burning Longing (Essay)

Maung Lu Hmwe – When the Heat Brings a Burning LongingMoeMaKa, April 1, 2026 When summer arrives and the midday heat bears down, one can do little but sit still. Even sleep doesn’t come easily. Just as sleep is about…

Maung Lu Hmwe – The Health of the Villages (Eessay)

Maung Lu Hmwe – The Health of the VillagesMoeMaKa, March 27, 2026 Who is looking after the health of the villages in revolutionary areas? Well, to answer honestly: it is CDM nurses, young people who have attended medical training through…

Maung Lu Hmwe – If the Educated Become Discouraged (Essay)

Maung Lu Hmwe – If the Educated Become DiscouragedMoeMaKa, March 25, 2026 In recent days, Maung Lu Hmwe has had to attend quite a lot of meetings. At one of them, he noticed that the people who were actually supposed…

Maung Lu Hmwe – Those Who Mock Righteousness (Essay)

Maung Lu Hmwe – Those Who Mock Righteousness (Essay)MoeMaKa, March 22, 2026 Last year, a young comrade who was close to Maung Lu Hmwe had to return from the frontlines after suffering partial paralysis. While deployed, he had to sleep…

Maung Lu Hmwe – The Frontline House of a Small Village (Essay)

Maung Lu Hmwe – The Frontline House of a Small Village (Essay) (Moemaka, March 19, 2026) You have to ride a motorbike across a shaky bamboo bridge to cross the river. Once you get off the bridge and reach the…

American TheGeek – What Are American Values, and What Are We as Burmese? (Essay)

American TheGeek – What Are American Values, and What Are We as Burmese? (Moemaka, March 19, 2026)With the current U.S. president, Trump, launching a sudden strike against Iran, it feels as though both America and the world have been thrown…

Maung Lu Hmwe – The Sound of the People’s Breath (Essay)

Maung Lu Hmwe – The Sound of the People’s Breath (Essay) (Moemaka – March 17, 2026) “My younger brother… we are also getting exhausted from constantly having to contribute money for bullets. And it’s not just us. The comrades who…

Maung Lu Hmwe – When the War Reaches the Dinner Table (Essay)

Maung Lu Hmwe – When the War Reaches the Dinner Table(MoeMaKa) March 12, 2026 “The petrol price is unbearable, teacher. Once fuel prices go up, everything else follows,” a parent complained in front of Maung Lu Hmwe yesterday. Petrol, which…

LA–Strong–LA (poem by Aung Way)

LA–Strong–LA (Aung Way) LA–Strong– LA You are a phoenix. As a phoenix rising from the ashes, you are hope of life and of better things to come. LA– Strong– LA You are an African lily. After the wildfires, African lily(or…

Diary in the darkness (15) by Uncle Tu Mee

22/10/22 Diary in the darkness (15) by Uncle Tu Mee (MoeMaKa) Oct 22, 2022 Early in the morning around 7:00 my friend called me. FATF announced that Myanmar was blacklisted and then the dollar price skyrocketed. The next news is…

Dairy in the darkness (14) by Uncle Tu Mee

21/10/22 Dairy in the darkness (14) by Uncle Tu Mee (MoeMaKa) Oct 24th 2022 In today’s neighborhood, rice, oil,  and eggs  are sold by the government’s  program. Rice is as poor as animal feed. There are many eggs that are…

Diary in the darkness (13) by Uncle Tu Mee

16/10/22 Diary in the darkness (13) by Uncle Tu Mee (MoeMaKa) Oct 16, 2022 Nowadays, people travel by train because they are not sure about the safety of the road if they travel by car. Security is also broken on…

Dairy in the darkness (12) by Uncle Tu Mee

14/10/22 Dairy in the darkness (12) by Uncle Tu Mee (MoeMaKa, Oct 14th, 2022) People are interested in the firing of regime army and PDF troops at kyaite Htee Yoe Pagoda. The government reported that three civilian women were killed…

Diary in the darkness (11) by Uncle Tu Mee

11/10/22 Diary in the darkness (11) by Uncle Tu Mee (MoeMaKa) Oct 11th 2022 In the street where I live, the neighborhood cooks and shares rice with mixed fruit soup. More than three hundred people came to pick it up.…