Time Whitewashed in Snow
Hesitantly, the snowflakes keep Swinging around until their final fall Swinging around until their final fall To the ground, in thickening stillness As the present becomes gradually Assimilated to the past (or future?) All in a wild white world of fairy tales Beyond Time It took hundreds… of thousands …of years For …homo erectus to evolve …into sapiens And longer …for chimpanzees to …erectus But …engineering ourselves …by way of Biochemistry… cyborg and… AI, we are Upgrading …ourselves into… godlings – all it Takes… will be just half a century …where science Beats gods …and devils, saints and ghosts alike… at Only …a fraction of no time, when a whim …pops up For a human …to go back …to a wild animal, again T. I. M. E. T: the Egyptian loaf far off the Phoenician mark is still edible now I: To begin with The hieroglyphical origin of My identity was simply no body But a common reed Bowing its head to the rising sun On the barren bank of the Nile Slim, tall, hollow-hearted Standing against tropical heat Until one day 'I' was used As a human symbol, an open vowel Referring to the speaker And since then I have become One of the most frequently spelt letters In the linguistic order of the day Always capitalized To embody my dignity Though I am nothing But a common reed That could have been made into a flute M: despite your body as imposing as a massive mountain you have a mindset hidden deeply in the wisdom of a little owl in the plasticities of a drop of water E: born to be a double reed that can be bent into a long vowel, the most frequently used letter in english, echoing endlessly in silences if pulled down, it offers two doors: one leading to Soul via will, the other to Him via wisdom; if turned up right, it forms a mountain with three peaks like so many holy swords, pointing high: one against the sun, one against the moon, one against the sky. Facing always towards the east, it embraces existence, equality, eternity, emancipation... The Past More than enough has been recollected About being in the past. It’s no time To be, yet except for a handful few, many Keep filling in the blanks of the present With the leftovers of the past, or catching The past from the present moment as if the present Were a tail of a vanishing fish rather than A rock from which the colt is running To the rising sun. Indeed, the trouble with The past is that it is deadly lost in the white pages Of history. Plus, even if the past can be edited, but never Be rewritten. So, let’s move to the future where The wise men want us to, where the pasts cannot Prevent us from surpassing the present Time [As the most frequently used noun in English today, is the word ‘time’ the right name for language to go right in the Confucian way?] Which that begins all ends and ends all beginnings while progressing indefinitely within or without space. Yes, that is time, time after time, time of the essence, time for celebration, time to pray, time to amend the constitution, time to talk about the future, time to lose, time for a change, time on her hands, time on your side, crunch time for dark matter hunt, long time no see, high time to go to bed, big time for a practical joker crossword, no time like the present, or good time to know Amondawa people living deep in the Amazonian rainforests of Brazil have no concept of time… Bucket List 1. last year: find a short cut leading all humans to happiness; 2. last month: invent something allowing men to piss without spilling; 3. last week: travel to a foreign unpopulated mountainous area; 4. last day: climb onto the highest spot in a forest; 5. last hour: settle down under a tall and straight tree like a dying elephant; 6. last minute: look as far as possible at the landscape like Sphinx; 7. last second: release my inner being so that it can fly up; 8. last mini second: join the proto consciousness of the cosmos; and 9. the rest of time: drift around every quantum entangled with my other selves Juan 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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