Yaleugooli While nobody has ever been to heaven (or hell) I can readily go to Yaleugooli, my inner dwelling More charming than Maui and Palawan combined With a beach more sensational than El Nido or Lopes Mendes; in particular, a cave more majestic Than Sơn Đoòng, where I cannot only get myself Totally lost in seeing countless wonders of nature But also take a respite as long as I like; an other Eden where I can enjoy being one and the same with Hyperion (from North California?) as my soulmate Or live an immortal life like the Metasequoia King Near my native village in central China, if ever I I so choose when I feel disturbed by earthly winds Or suffer from insomnia in the heart of winter night Yes, I am already living in Yaleugook, a true paradise While they could only wish to enter heaven after they die December 28, 201 --A dream like this one is worthy a whole lifetime. I don’t know whether it’s my other self Or my inner being, but I did climb high Up to the top of a castle on a mountain Where I envisioned a whole valley full Of blue mists, covering bold gothic buildings Of a lost civilization; in the towering Background stands a stark mountain Chain, where a wider Danube of stilllife Flows through a Yggdrasil-like forest, and Beside the open balcony sits a small pond Surrounded by grape fields. I went to the Waterside, and caught a feathered butterfly Much bigger than the kite I used to fly; its wings are Brownish, like the color of my eyes; its feathers Are as fine as light and as soft as the dust Falling from the sky in Zhuangzi’s dream Mamihlapinatapai (for Qi Hong) Totally free We have rented out each other To equally total strangers In this life But in the next one We are deadly engaged to Live ever happily after A life of matrimonial ecstasy Out of our mutual limerence All Flying to Gaxyland: A Confucian Vision Come, come You peng from the Zhuangzian northern darkness You swan from the Horacean meadows You pheasant from under Li Bo’s cold moon You oriole from Dufu’s green willow You dove from the Dantean inferno You phoenix from Shakespeare’s urn You swallow from the Goethe oak or The Nerudan dense blue air, you cuckoo From the Wordsworthian vale, you albatross From the Coleridgean fog, you nightingale From the Keatsian plum tree, you skylark Form the Shalleyean heaven, you owl From under the Baudelairen overhanging years You unnamed creature from the Pushkinian alien lands You raven from near Poe’s chamber door You parrot from the Tagorean topmost twig And you crows from among my cawing words Come, all of you, more than 100 kinds of Birds from every time spot or spot moment Come, with your light but strong skeletons Come, with your hard but toothless beaks Come, with your colored feathers, and flap your wings Against Su dongpo’s painting brush strokes Come, all you free spirits of nature Let’s join one another and flock together High, higher up towards mabakoola Science Story: A Parallel Poem I kayaked out of the bay on a Saturday evening And was sucked there into a blue twirling ring When I was nailed firm at the centre of a light stream A pink snow falls though I wish to rise like the steam My consciousness dissolves into heavenly waters And I become present everywhere in the universe I travelled afar to collect all my selves and assemble them together And here I return to this moment, finding my old self a total stranger Yuan Changming grew up in an isolated village, started to learn the English alphabet at age nineteen and 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 eleven Pushcart nominations, nine chapbooks & awards, as well as publications in Best of the Best Canadian Poetry (2008-17),& BestNewPoemsOnline, among nearly 1,800 other, across 46 countries. Lotus Image & License: Depositphotos_32738103_s-2015 |
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