Encountering
When two humans crash into each other They fall deeply in either love or hatred When two freight trains clash head on They are both derailed in destructions When two clouds (or civilisations) Collide, they become assimilated (?) Mindful Moment No intruding of any kind No trespassing into the scene Except the exit of last sound, last image From this inner stage. No apparition of A single feel or memory, as if In an intended senior moment indefinitely Stretched, when my inner being dissolves fully Into the outbeing. Now the sky is free of clouds as My sense of selfhood keeps growing, bit by bit Slowly but surely, until I become the universe & The universe becomes me Seasonal Unity Hesitantly, the snowflakes keep Drifting around until their final fall To the ground, in thick stillness As the present becomes totally Assimilated to the past (or future) All in a white world of fairy tales Hiking in the Forest I stepped aside to let the cyclist pass You are welcome! I said. He actually Had said nothing, but I assumed he had Said Thanks! And a light feeling swept Through my heart, You are welcome As I continued to follow the trail Into the depth of Pacific Spirit Forest Each step trodden on the leaves And a breeze blew through the komorebi You are welcome in this kingdom of trees, the Whole natural world I was in, together with All my heart and soul. You are welcome To share the tranquility of an unmanned realm, where The entire physical world wrapping itself up In me, and beyond all roads. You are welcome To penetrate my private moment of space and, in particular You are welcome to join us in this short line of thought Tunneling Effect Like a quantum Let my spiritrons penetrate the high wall Of your heart, as well as that of another Parallel universe, not just to see the secrets There but to be one of them UNITY: The Origin of a Construct U u is surely a part of you, while you sound no more than a single letter u, which is nothing but a copy of a chick you used to be on the bank of the Nile, where u can be changed into v within an european word as in yvan; it's said you have the makings of a victor, a us or un representative who begins the uniform, university, universe. N No, nobody knows this, but you are really no more Or no less than the old Egyptian metonymy of A stream, river, lake, sea or even an entire ocean, where There is always water , where there are always fish Rather than a synecdochic Z pushed straight upright On the bank of the Euphrates 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 T the Egyptian loaf far off the Phoenician mark is still edible now Y You are really haunted by this letter; yes, since it contains all the secrets of Your selfhood: your name begins with it; you carry y-chromosome; you wear Y-pants; both your skin and heart are yellowish; your best poem is titled Y; you seldom seek the balance between yin and yang; you never want to be a Yankee, but you yearn to remain as young as your poet son; in particular You love the way it is pronounced, so youthfully, as a word rather than a letter to Yell out the human reasons; above all your soul is a seed blown from afar, always Y-shaped when breaking the earth to greet spring 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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