Karma Poems

      

By Changming Yuan

Gift Exchange on the Valentine’s Day A Single Rose In Hand For All The Springs On Earth Predetermined Encountering at a Passport Office I don’t know your name Nor will I get any idea about Your age, your family, your work Your daily routine or idiosyncrasy (Which is irrelevant anyway) But I always remember the muted music Of your breath, the compressed smell of your spirit Especially your blooming serenity and elegance Alas, how can I ever forget you did not even Bother to take a look at me, although for this Very meeting, all the three trillion cells In my body have been beseeching So many stars in the parallel universe For the past five hundred years To arrange for us to see each other, although only Once in a lifetime While myriads of raindrops beat against our drums alike Towards another summer evening Touring Test There is no solution to this Problem of the other mind Hosted in my bedmate’s body: After 35 years of marriage Are you a cyborg human, or Am I a human cyborg? Perhaps We are both dreaming in a virtual world Like a lost intelligent robot? Kharma Cast: A Mega Romance It has taken the entire human history For her and him To meet To be together, and Sure, they will spend All their futures alone On an earth Newly broken off From this planet One Tree That Makes a Whole Forest Instead of reaching deep Into the ground, you hung all your roots On your twigs in the wild open, trying To absorb both air and light directly As well as darkness and cold Ready to connect to soil and water Growing from a single seed into a huge forest That’s the secret of banyan The secret about karma Facts to Be Fictioinalised Bury facts deep So that in the future Nothing could be dug out From underneath the ruins of history But in these moments when words still hold A wind arises, blowing Across the mind Stories are spreading everywhere Told and retold within a larger story Are but an entire other era Yuan Changming published monographs on translation before leaving China. With a Canadian PhD in English, Yuan currently edits Poetry Pacific with Allen Yuan in Vancouver; credits include ten Pushcart nominations, the Naji Naaman's Literary Prize 2018, Best of the Best Canadian Poetry, BestNewPoemsOnline, Threepenny Review and 1,449 others worldwide. yuan changming @ Poetry Pacific https://poetrypacific.blogspot.ca https://happyyangsheng.blogspot.ca Lotus Image & License: Depositphotos_32738103_s-2015