In the forest of life:
He kept felling trees One after another Not to see whose ring is The roundest, but to find Which cut offers the finest And most fragrant sawdust ** Moving on Towards the setting sun You will find all your pasts Stretched long, longer And darker than Your own shadow *** This is all life is about: If there is no bridge, you can wait For the river to get frozen If there is no road, make shoes And kick a trail out of the thorny bushes If there is no shelter, use your thought And dream to put up a tent against the storm Just keep on travelling, and you will find Just another strangely familiar path **** Each time God casts His dice, man wins The game Or so He wishes Intending to cheat? ***** 1/ Snow has buried all roads and trails So that you can walk your own way out 2/ Join the whole of the white world, or you Would be fragmented into the darkness 3/ This is the most dynamic stage, where Whitewashed silences dance ever so wildly 4/ The entire season is holding its breath As if waiting to embrace the snowfall Founding Publisher/Editor-in-Chief:: Yuan Changming [pen name of Yuan Wumin], 9-time Pushcart nominee, grew up in rural China, began to learn the English alphabet at 19, and published monographs before moving to Canada as an international student. While pursuing his graduate studies in University of Saskatchewan, he helped establish the Saskatchewan Chinese Monthly, and served as its chief editor until 1992. After obtaining his PhD in English, he began to work as a private tutor in Vancouver. In early August 2004, Changming started to write poetry in English and is now probably the world's most widely published poetry author who speaks Mandarin but writes mainly in English: since mid-2005, Changming has had poetry appearing in more than 1,000 literary journals/anthologies across 38 countries, which include Amsterdam Quarterly, Asia Literary Review, Best Canadian Poetry, Best New Poems Online, In Other Words, Istanbul Literary Review, Kwani?, LiNQ, London Magazine, Mahmag World Literature, New Coin, Paris/Atlantic, Poetry Kanto, Poetry Salzburg Review, Rowayat, Rusted Radishes, SAND, Saraba Magazine, Taj Mahal Review, Threepenny Review, Two Thirds North and Voice Israel Poetry Anthology. On the Remembrance Day of 2012, Changming established Poetry Pacific Press (PP Press) at http://poetrypacificpress.blogspot.ca/ in Vancouver. Blogsite:: yuanspoetry.blogspot.ca. poetrypacific.blogspot.ca/ ***License & Image: Depositphotos_32738103_s-2015.jpg |
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