True Heroes Today Behind every headline Are nurses & doctors Combating COV D-19 Right at the frontline Emergency Delemma Which to rescue first: The Human right or the human left? No, neither But the human heart From every human center To halt To reflect To reset Humanity in the human middle Patient with Patient: You & Me Each time you fall asleep In the depth Of darkness, of suffering Don’t fear, my dear I will stay close on guard Like the sun on the other Side of the world, keeping Your dream warm, & Fully illuminated When you rise with a morning Glow, my light will cast a shadow Always ready to follow you Preventing your soul from lagging behind Sunbathing the Bedding Sets Since your sweet boy died, you have often cried In chilly privacy, over the fact that the only human In this entire word, who loved you most dearly had left You alone forever. Each time sleeping between sad & Cold sheets, you cannot help recalling how he used To take out all your bedding sets on every sunny day To sunbathe them, a habit that sometimes would drive You crazy when there was an unexpected shower So, the day you moved here, I began to do something Similar, even with your mattress, exposing them At every chance just to give you a smell of the sun, or Of your sweet boy, when you still can go to bed by yourself Bamboo Leaf It is true not all purple bamboos can be Made into flutes, but close to My perishing bed, you can still whistle, with Any bamboo leaf, even your two bare lips Just blow these few high-pitched notes aloud Into my shrunk innnself: Success Happiness Selfhood Individualism Human dignity and, of course All gone with the wind Yuan Changming published monographs on translation before leaving China. Currently, Yuan edits Poetry Pacific with Allen Qing Yuan in Vancouver. Credits include ten Pushcart nominations, eight chapbooks (most recent one being East Idioms [cyberwit.net, 2020]) & publications in Best of the Best Canadian Poetry (2008-17) & BestNewPoemsOnline, among 1639 others across 44 countries. Lotus Image & License: Depositphotos_32738103_s-2015 |
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