Tranquility

      

By Yuan Changming

Tranquility   Is the birthmark of A healthy body, as well as Of a healthy soul   Biting Time   This is all life is about:   If there is no bridge, you can wait For the river to get frozen   If there is no road, make shoes And kick a trail out of the thorny bushes   If there is no shelter, use your thought And dream to put up a tent against the storm   Just keep on travelling, and you will find Just another strangely familiar path      Come and Go   Humans keep coming to this planet So are gods and other super beings   Where both are as busy in this world As are the story tellers in a parallel one     Gratitude   I wished for a single dew, but you Have given me a whole morning   I wished for a little cloud, but you Have given me a boundless sky   I wished for a petal, but you Have given me an entire season   I wished for a small tree, but you Have given me a range of mountains       So I have stopped making wishes     Just to feel grateful to you and all     Smile   Is a morning glow, which costs The sun nothing, but it creates   Indefinite add-on value For the morning, for the world     Each Worm   Is a fertile garden, where grows a     Love into a family flower Or tree, where the birds Are hatched out and flying away Like her children   So, how can you enjoy the bird’s song     Without appreciating the worm?     Word’s Wisdom   Life contains many A hidden if, as does every wife Or rife   Once f – is absent What remains is but a lie      Motivation   Does not need A motivation Like you do   Its motivation, if any Is to be an action That’s that   Bio: Yuan Changming co-edits Poetry Pacific with Allen Yuan. Writing credits include 16 chapbooks, 12 Pushcart nominations for poetry and 3 for fiction besides appearances in Best of the Best Canadian Poetry (2008-17), BestNewPoemsOnline and 2129 other publications across 51 countries. A poetry judge for Canada's 44th National Magazine Awards, Yuan began writing and publishing fiction in 2022. His debut novel Detaching, 'silver romance' The Tuner and short story collection Flashbacks are all available at Amazon, his duology Edening due out in 2026.