The Yonder
What is beyond the pots and pans Must perforce be far, farther Than the mind’s eye can see Always unreachable, even via Poetry or dream; what’s beyond This zone of everyday presences is Something strangely familiar, or Familiarly strange, but appealing To our senses, like beauty hidden Behind words, vision up above Lines, colors and shapes, or music Among bird chirrups. The far afield Is the longing for, is the curiosity About the promise of tomorrow The assumption of beauty, to be Imagined only at a far distance The Most Distant Is the distance between Head & toe; between Thought & action; between The pen & paper; between Dream & reality; between Here & there; between Now & then; between Two hearts out of love; between Two roads in parallel; or between You & me, even with no obstacle in between Travelling Truth Along the journey of Life Every hotel is A solid restroom For the body, but A meta-mirage For the soul Journeying Afar The journey starting At an old African tree & ending somewhere At the settlement on a mars Is as long as full of pitfalls & hardships as enjoyable & even beautiful As the one starting At one mind & ending At another, or starting & ending at the one & same heart, is it not? More Than a Trance Given the whole earth drifting around Like a speck of dust in the universe, where Can I settle my soul among empty spaces? Newly breaking out from its cocoon, it is A butterfly flying to a starry cluster, unable To find a place to perch until it gets lost Like a human message sent to the opposite Sideline of the cosmos, an other speck of dust In an other singularity-spiritron, ever expanding Beyond the Field Trip Each petal sprayed to the air Makes the hour more fickle Ah, varieties of late spring in the country Demise of dynamics Fantasies of posthumous living, where All the colors are thrown high into the sky Splashing down among midsummer dreams 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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