tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77764557203286794302024-03-13T01:55:38.851-07:00yuanspoetry©poetrypacific.blogspot.cahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14560551510300869695noreply@blogger.comBlogger207125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7776455720328679430.post-33181574373939697582024-01-15T19:09:00.000-08:002024-01-15T19:17:14.672-08:00yuan's lit endeavors updated - 15 jan'24<p> 1. between july and december last year, i got only about 40 acceptances, because i didn't write as much poetry as, and thus made far less subs than, before. this is mainly because i devoted much of my time to prose writing. (in 2024, i will have to focus mostly on revising, editing and finalizing my prosework.)</p><p>2. on aug. 29th, 2023, i got an email from an la-based small press, informing me about their acceptance of my first long novel titled <i>mabakoola: paradise regained </i>(about 100 k words), which includes the second and third part of my trilogy <i>TOWARDS</i>. this means a lot to me, as i spent only 20 months in the whole process, from the conception of the novel to the final acceptance for publicatoin (in 2025). </p><p>3. on sept 25th, 2023, my 16th solo poetry collection <i>free sonnets</i> was published by a small american press called dark onus press; unfortuanately, the press has stopped operation by now. link: https://www.google.com/url?sa=j&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.blurb.ca%2Fb%2F11705634-free-sonnets&uct=1700843118&usg=HagwhMqVhKWxreyuSW6di8lsQ5k.&opi=98421741</p><p>4. on sept 30th, 2023, the uk-based <i>lincoln review</i> informed me about their nomination of my short story "feng shui" as the "best of the net for 2023" (fiction category). </p><p>5. on october 28th, 2023, i received an email from<i> unconventional courier</i> notifying me that it had nominated my short story "emotional curiosity" for the 2023 pushcart prize (fiction category); about two weeks later, another new york-based journal did the same. this is particuarly encouraging: i didn't begin to write fiction until early 2022 after retirement, but thus far i've got three nominations in this category. </p><p>6. during the frist half of last year, i wrote 20 short stories. between november 19 and 29, right after i returned from my two month long china trip on november 15, i finished drafting another 10 short stories. </p><p>7. between december 5th and 25th last year, i finished drafting another novel, titled <i>the tuner</i>, about 50 k words, based on my own love experiences, which i will self-publish if eventually i fail to find a reasonably 'good' press for it.</p><p>fortunatly, 2023 turned out to be the peak of my life: literarilly, i made the greatest breakthrough; econimically, i made most profits; and emotionally, i had my most enjoyable days in my entire life.</p><p>one thing worth mentioning: before returning to vancouver, i met a shamanistic practitioner in person, who not only has some super skills but happens to be a distant cousine of mine. </p><p>i feel deeply grateful for allowing me to do and get what i really want to. <span face="Simsun, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14px;">🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏</span></p>poetrypacific.blogspot.cahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14560551510300869695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7776455720328679430.post-30783498253597786982023-07-08T18:43:00.004-07:002023-07-08T18:47:48.369-07:00Yuan's Lit Endeavors Updated -8 Jul'23<p> 1/ from january to june 2023, got 55 poetry/fiction acceptances. those that have accepted my work for the first time include <i>LIT, Shenendoah, Cicada & Singapore Unbound ;</i></p><p>2/ in jan, <i>Sound of Poetry,</i> a radio station based in Tacoma near Seattle, had a telephone interview with me at https://radiotacoma.org/sound-poetry-archive-2023/ ;</p><p>3/ recently, <i>Shennendoah</i> had a telephone interview with me at https://shenandoahliterary.org/thepeak/a-cross-cultural-understanding-david-interviews-yuan-changming/; </p><p>4/ on may 5, successfully released the 2023 edition of <i>Poetry Pacific</i> at <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09YTQGMQ5&source=gmail&ust=1651685873903000&usg=AOvVaw3JakjEEmqyOKcCD2nuzmpK" href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09YTQGMQ5" style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">http://poetrypacific.blogspot.com/</a><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;"> </span>; for more exposure, we reverted to our old operational model - website publication only;</p><p>5/ in may, published the english version of a poetry collection titled <i>My Secret Lover, You</i> by Israeli poet Lali Michaeli at <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.amazon.com/dp/1777900786&source=gmail&ust=1685484781954000&usg=AOvVaw2_T-wsvPPSUNGfna6T2VFv" href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1777900786" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/dp/<wbr></wbr>1777900786</a></p><p>6/ in june, published the english version of a poetry collection titled <i>Bronze </i>by Yang Jijun, a chinese poet at <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.amazon.com/dp/1777900794&source=gmail&ust=1687743108717000&usg=AOvVaw0o3aSmrl2pci4fotV19Ez7" href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1777900794" style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/dp/<wbr></wbr>1777900794</a></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">7/ between 13 and 28 may, finished drafting 11 flash fictions, among which 'initial contact' and 'cat karma' have been accepted for publication on line;</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">8/ my 16th poetry collection <i>Yellow Comedy </i>is due out this month via Four Feathers Press; and my 17th <i>Free Sonnets</i> is to be released by Dark Onus Press in september;</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">9/ from jun 2022 to april 2023, i kept revising my150,000-word-long triology <i>TOWARDs</i>, which i have submitted to publishers without an agent; hope it will find a suitable home;</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">got covid-19 on feb 21 while i was alone at my basement home, and the symptons lingered for a couple of months before i 'fully' recovered. was afraid i could not make it, for i still have so much to do, esp. so much to write about...</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">i write; therefore, i am. </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>poetrypacific.blogspot.cahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14560551510300869695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7776455720328679430.post-82464081880292413012023-07-08T09:01:00.003-07:002023-07-08T09:01:23.217-07:00[archived poems by yuan: 2019-2©]<p> <b style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">2019, 12, 26 [Thursday]</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Heart-Renditions: Lesson 2 in </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Chinese
Characters</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="ZH-CN" style="color: #222222; font-family: "MS Mincho";">怒</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">: <i>anger</i> influxes
when slavery</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Rises
from above the heart<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="ZH-CN" style="color: #222222; font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">愁</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">: <i>worry</i> thickens as autumn <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Sits
high on your heart<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="ZH-CN" style="color: #222222; font-family: "微软雅黑",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">闷</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">: <i>depressed</i> whenever
your heart is<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Shut
behind a door<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="ZH-CN" style="color: #222222; font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">意</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">: <i>meaning </i>is defined as<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A
sound over the heart<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="ZH-CN" style="color: #222222; font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">思</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">: <i>thought</i> takes
place <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In
in the field of heart<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="ZH-CN" style="color: #222222; font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">忘</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">: <i>forgetting</i> happens <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>When
there’s death on heart<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="ZH-CN" style="color: #222222; font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">忍:</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">to <i>tolerate</i>
is to bear a knife<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Right
above your heart<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">East Etymology: Lesson One
in Chinese Characters <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="ZH-CN" style="color: #222222; font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">臭:</span><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">stinking</span></i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> results from just one bit
of too much self-conceit<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="color: #222222; font-family: "MS Mincho";">黨:</span><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">party</span></i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> in politics means to
uphold the principle of darkness</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="ZH-CN" style="color: #222222; font-family: "微软雅黑",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">认</span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="color: #222222; font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">:</span><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">knowing
</span></i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">someone
involves paying attention to whatever s/he says<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="ZH-CN" style="color: #222222; font-family: 微软雅黑, sans-serif;">值</span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="color: #222222; font-family: "MS Mincho";">:</span><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">worth</span></i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> is determined by how
straight a person stands</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="color: #222222; font-family: 微软雅黑, sans-serif;">债</span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="color: #222222; font-family: "MS Mincho";">:</span><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">debt</span></i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> must be paid because it’s
a human responsibility</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="color: #222222; font-family: "MS Mincho";">武:</span><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">military
forces</span></i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> are
used only to stop war and maintain peace</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="color: #222222; font-family: "MS Mincho";">吻:</span><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">kiss</span></i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> is an act of not only the
mouth but also the heart </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Collectivism: Another
Lesson in Chinese Characters <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="color: #222222; font-family: "MS Mincho";">猋:</span><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">three
dogs</span></i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">
running together means to fly fast</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="color: #222222; font-family: "MS Mincho";">毳:</span><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">three
pieces of hair</span></i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> put together indicates as much subtlety as sensitivity</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="color: #222222; font-family: "MS Mincho";">贔:</span><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">three
mounts of money</span></i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> deposited together stands for hard work</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="color: #222222; font-family: "MS Mincho";">鑫:</span><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">three
kinds of metals</span></i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> stuck together signifies prosperity</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span lang="HI" style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "MS Mincho";">垚</span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "MS Mincho";">:</span><i><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">three units of earth</span></i><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> piled together represents
a mountain towering against the sky</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="color: #222222; font-family: "MS Mincho";">森:</span><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">three
trees</span></i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">
standing together presents a whole forest</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="color: #222222; font-family: "MS Mincho";">淼:</span><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">three
bodies of water</span></i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> flowing together describes a vast expanse of sea</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="color: #222222; font-family: "MS Mincho";">焱:</span><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">three
fires</span></i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">
burning together refers to an extremely bright flame</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Retreating<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">You do not know why, but
you</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Just cannot help trying constantly
to <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Withdraw your self-consciousness,
thinned or thickened<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">From your presence, even before
your family &<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Friends, before your fellow
human beings, before<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">All artifacts, including every
man-built structure <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">& shrink your entire
selfhood into an increasingly smaller <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Point until it vanishes
into the ethereal <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">You imagine yourself already
becoming such a blank<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Dot, drifting invisibly in
a parallel world, real or virtual<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Now both too crowded for your
shameful spiritron <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Fact vs Fiction<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The encountering is a sheer fabrication<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Of yours, made wishfully during
a summer storm<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Which was real, though the summer is
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">An imagination, which did
offer a warm feeling <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Though the warmth is
fiction, which seems as real <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">As the feel, though your
loneliness is but an invention <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Loneliness Redefined<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Beginning with <i>l </i>as in the word long
or <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Love, followed by <i>o</i>
as in oh or, rather<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Overwhelmed [with <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Numerous whims &<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Endless wishes, each<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Living a luxurious life in a
different realm, while<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Interacting with<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Nothing but<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Everything as <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Solid as soothing as your self-sufficient
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Selfhood.] With this <i>one
line </i>embedded between <i>L</i> (as in<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Long love) & double <i>S</i> (as in super
stories)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How can you possibly feel loneliness?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Given the Top Four Most
Common English Verbs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">To <i>be</i> [or not to be<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Whatever
or whoever you are]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">To <i>have</i> [or not to
have]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Whoever
or whatever you may wish]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">To <i>do</i> [or not to do]
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Anything
or nothing you would prefer, &]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">To <i>say</i> [or not to
say]<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Nothing
or anything you may intend to]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">We are all rendered equal as
we cross <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Every borderline, filling
in every gap<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In
action as in thought<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>[Or
otherwise]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">English Composure <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Isn’t it a nice day? -- Sure it is! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">There will be a storm tomorrow. -- Wont’ there?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">The train has probably derailed. -- So what?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">The Ship is surely sinking. – Let’s play
another song!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">The queen passed away last night. -- Oh yes?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Frankenstein has won the election. -- O, come
off it!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Our mother earth will explode. -- No great
shake.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">This is the end of the universe. -- Amen!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Behind the Homeless<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You
are a wild cat<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Never in want of a companion in summer or
winter<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Partying with others is unthinkable, even
immoral<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt 318.75pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">You prefer to be alone, a state where you can <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Stretch your solid selfhood into a colored cloud,
or<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Shrink
your feline consciousness into a blank dot <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Loneliness
is all the luxury you enjoy. &<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Here is your personal religion, in which<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">I often hoped to share your forbidden mobility <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">But in your shadow I have been transmuted<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Before I know it<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Into
a bohemian artist. On a bus stop bench<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">At a street corner, between two protruding
walls<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You tattoo the landscape with humanity <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">You cannot help preaching for freedom,
wandering<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
a parallel between your inner and outer worlds<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">How It Really Came about<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">You threw a formless conceit into a cauldron of<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bubbling
consciousness, patiently adding<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Hours of days of months to the fire<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Until it vaporised & flied high up into <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">An unseen patch of sky. Before it fell from <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Above, you searched for a container of every <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Conceivable kind, a plate, a bowl, a cup<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Even your own palm. At a shiny moment<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In a little swirl, you caught it <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">With a net. That’s not fantasy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">None of that. As in this stanza you have
contained it<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Foreign Frequency<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>My ears cannot hear the sound<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Neither can yours, not even all the earthly <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Ears combined, including those of moths<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: center 3.0in;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Bats, owls, elephants and whales<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Only mechanic or electronic ears<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">May detest the frequency range, &<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">So can your inner ears, as long<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">As you set your mind-frame like <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">An amplifier.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Indeed, when you empty all<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">The noises, white, pink or blue, from your<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Inner being, you can readily hear<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">The choir of summer stars twinkling above<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">From the most distant corner of the cosmos<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt; text-indent: .5in;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 214.5pt;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">2019, 11, 20 [Wednesday]<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">First<b> </b>Gathering after 42 Years of Separation
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-hyphenate: auto; text-indent: .5in;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Like a wolf dying of thirst <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">That cannot wait to gulp down the whole stream<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">You lunged towards her, desperate to know <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Everything about her in particular. <i>Alas </i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">She said, <i>my life experience after we<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><i><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Left the school is as tasteless as plain water<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><i><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; text-indent: .5in;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">But being a veggie now, <i>I drink water only</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">You whispered, as tea is a bit too harsh, coffee<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Too bitter, while even a small glass of wine <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Would make your heart beat unbearably too fast<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Being Mindful<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">First, let your body relax<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In the present moment<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Then, let your pasts go<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>With all your memories, &<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Finally, let your spirit fly<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Out of the cage of your mind<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Looking Forward<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">How I am looking forward to my last breath!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-hyphenate: auto; text-indent: .5in;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">For the dying moment is<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">To be the very most enjoyable (which I know<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">From my deadly drowning on the other side<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Of this world as a village boy) &<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Most rewarding time when I can, indeed, get <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">All the confirmed answers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; text-indent: .5in;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">I have been trying so hard to find<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">About life, about the world & <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-hyphenate: auto; text-indent: .5in;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Above
all, about myself<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Looking Back to Forward<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Despite countless showers or storms<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Weathered through, I have never yet<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; text-indent: .5in;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Seen a single ray of rainbow<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">(As everyone has expected)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Yet fortunately I find myself<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Living now in an eternal sunny season<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; text-indent: .5in;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Within the territory of my heart <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Behemoth <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; text-indent: .5in;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>My other self has a stronger presence<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">On the other side of this planet, firmly set <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">In a different time zone, where I could flirt
freely<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">With Qi Hong, the girl I might well have<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Pursued, should I not decide to concentrate <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Upon my teenager ambitions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-hyphenate: auto; text-indent: .5in;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I
am sitting still<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">There among young trees on a hilltop, lost in a
mood of<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Meditating about how the other half of the world<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Is rotating around the darkness of tomorrow, &<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">How all my past concerns are burning to ashes, one <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">By one, as in a summer forest fire far beyond the skyline
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Empathy <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Perhaps just a bit too long <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Watching the last leaf <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">rubbing against my window<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">I have forgotten <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; text-indent: .5in;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">if I is the tree, or<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; text-indent: .5in;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the
tree am I<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">The Most Romantic Thing Ever Done<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Is that I once kissed the most handsome fir<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">In a forest: a full array of tall trees<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Grasping the earth so firmly<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-hyphenate: auto; text-indent: .5in;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">All urging me to stay<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">As beautiful as the sky, the ocean, the stars<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">& mountains, yet more reachable, ready <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">To date, to make love, to live or die with<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Especially for me. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-hyphenate: auto; text-indent: .5in;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Each
opens itself wide<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Heart and soul, exposing fully to sunshine &<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Storms alike, standing against winds, rain<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Birds, insects, snow, viruses besides hostile<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Animal hands, where I find myself standing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At
the very tip of a twig<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">It could die or be fell down, but its seeds<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; text-indent: .5in;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Will take root far beyond. So<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Leave me alone, let me stay here before <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">The wind blows me back into the city crowds<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Crows Are Being Born Again<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-hyphenate: auto; text-indent: .5in;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is
an undeniable fact now: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">They have arisen from the bare ground<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Like the phoenix flapping its wings out of its <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Legendary ashes, where are they going?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Nowhere but high up into a virtual space, a world <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">That, like history book, is full of black headlines<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Big names, & bold details. All transmitted<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Into numb numbers. Even the most unidentifiable<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Has become a comet shooting above its dark caws. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 2.5in; mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Each <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Taken for an angel winged with the rainbows <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Of tomorrow, while all cranes and swans are lost <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-hyphenate: auto; text-indent: .5in;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">In their dances to the tune of death<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Youth <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">The nursery rhyme jumps from my aging chest<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Eager to embrace the changing world with zest<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Hello, young trees! Hello, summer’s sunshine!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">How are you all doing along this humble line?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">I will resume my old childhood dream<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">I will try this new feature like ice cream<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">I will return to my long lost native place<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">On this planet’s other side to find the face<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">& confess to her as the apple of my eye <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Pretending I can restart my life, can’t I?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Before: for Qi Hong<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Returning to Mayuhe, where we were forced<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">To ‘receive re-education from poor peasants’ <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">(During the Cultural Revolution), before asking<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Cheehoong to dance among the pine trees we<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Planted, before hiking to the valley to pick up<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Fresh mushrooms, before holding high our glasses <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Of life filled with wine, tea or coffee, before
singing <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">The song we enjoyed singing the most when <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">We were young & gay, before taking turns<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">To elaborate on our edited resumes, before<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Our grandchildren ask for <i>yeye </i>or<i> nainai </i>to
tell<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Them new stories about the last revolution <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">It’s high time, after 42 years of separation, to
say<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Farewell to each other, first & foremost,
before<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">We retreat from this party, this stage of world<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">While we still can sit straight beside one another <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">My Tree<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; text-indent: .5in;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Definitely it is a tree. Though I cannot<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Touch it with my fingers, I perceive it<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Growing, very slowly, against summer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Storms & winter frost until its branches have
now<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Reached out along my limbs & meridians<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; text-indent: .5in;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Its roots grasping deep & tight<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Into my inner soil. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-hyphenate: auto; text-indent: .5in;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
carry it like my own child<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Like a shadow as it becomes almost overlapping<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">With my whole being. If it continues to grow<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">With its leaves, can I return on a rainy day, to <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Make a nest for my soul as high up in Yggdrasil?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;"><br clear="all" style="page-break-before: always;" />
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">2019, 8, 26 [Monday]<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Why No More Super-Sapiens, Saintly or Satanic <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">It was all via Columbus<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; text-indent: .5in;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">It was right from the New World<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-hyphenate: auto; text-indent: .5in;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">It was simply because of his unintended introduction<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">That a shepherd later known as Syphilis began to lead
an increasingly large flock of innocent lambs, including Franz Shubert, Arthur
Schopenhauer, Edouard Manet, Charles Baudelaire, Guy de Maupassant, Friedrich
Nietzsche, Fan Goh, Mozart, Beethoven, </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Gustave
Flaubert, Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin, A Bing; other suspects including Oscar
Wilde, Emperor Tongzhi, the Lincoln couple, Hitler, Lenin, Darwin, Edgar Allen
Poe, Starlin, Einstein, Hugo, Napolean, Albrecht Dürer, Fyodor Mikhailovich
Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Robert Alexander Schumann, Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud,
Alphonse Daudet, Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, Christian Johann Heinrich
Heine, as well as Dr. John Hunter himself, to march from the ditches of
obscurity to the grand hall of fame<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Until even you & I wish to join them to become a super master in our
own right, but<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Alas, we have now to stop dreaming about becoming super-sapiens, wicked
or wrecked, as a side-result of the invention of penicillin?!<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Witch-Hunting<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Keep driving, drive
the Naples disease<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">To Frenchmen, the French disease<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">To Italians, the Spanish disease <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">To the English, the Polish disease <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">To Russians, the German disease <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">To the Polish, the Christina disease<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">To the Turkish and Arabs, the Portuguese <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Disease to Indians, the Chinese disease <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">To the Japanese, the Cantonese disease <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">To Pekingese, all along the trails trodden by<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">The great Pox, the Great Imitator, the Great socery <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Button scurvy, sibbens, frenga, dichuchwa <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Durer’s ‘synhilistic man’, keats’s ‘femme fatale’…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Until a doctor finally caught it in a little poem, where<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">An innocent shepherd called Syphilis turned out<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The greatest hunter
being hunted, or<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Until we have no more super sapiens, saintly or satanic<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Whose spirits are still drifting around <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like a spectre over old Europe
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Shhh<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">The cosmos is expanding<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Black holes sucking <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Old stars sparkling<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">New stars being born<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Manmade satellites moving around the earth<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Earth rotating & revolving<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Clouds colliding<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">E.signals shooting <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">The swishing of traffic on Granville Street<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Sawing at the house construction site nearby<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Power-washing <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Mowing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Talking to a fellow human <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Tick-tacking of the clock<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Buzzing of the fridge<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Computer fanning while in the present moment<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">My heart is beating, as silence presents itself as<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">A vast stage, where noises enter or exit one after another <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">As if to drive all the ears out of my protobeing <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">HeLa’s Cell<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Originating from Eve<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">This line is continuing to stretch<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Longer,&
longer <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Multiplying every mitochondrion into <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>More & more cells<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Each an independent life, as<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">It reaches deeper & deeper in our body<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>& heart <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">To pass on the story about her love<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">While Walking, Helen Observes That<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><i><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">not a single tree begins to branch out <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><i><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">until after it rises a certain height <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><i><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">above the ground</span></i><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">. Perhaps it <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">needs to grow thick, tall or strong<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">enough to stand against storms<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">to enjoy the sunshine, or to greet <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">people like you & me<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">no matter what, all the branches<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">combined remain exactly thick<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">as the trunk itself<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><i><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">do you mean there’s more than one law <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><i><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">about all green growths?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Pine Cones<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">To spare myself the nuisance of mowing, &<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">To give my lawn a unique look, I have covered <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">My whole front yard with pine cones collected <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">From every corner & shade in our<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Greater neighbourhood. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On a rainy day, Helen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Observes each has closed itself tightly as if<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">To protect its virginity, or hide <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Its shyness, but on a sunny day each<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Re-opens itself wide as a wild blooming flower<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Sensitive as they are, they are always ready to recall<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Their evergreenness, while trying to outlive the season<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">During the storm, retaining their living dignity<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Even when deadly so low on the ground<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Giraffe vs Mule<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So highly arrogant is<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">The giraffe as it outstands all humans<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Even the tallest carnivorous animal<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Be that as it may, it is no taller than a mule<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When it bends down<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">To eagerly drink water from the stream<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like a naked mole rat<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">On the Scale <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Put any alphabetic letter<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even in a lower case<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">At this end, & see if<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All the great books
(you have?)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ever written
& published will go <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>High
up or deep down<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At
the other?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Dust<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After returning to
dust<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">I plan to transform my proto-<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Consciousness into a golem<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Not in man’s image any more<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">But with a nanochip at heart<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">It needs no companion <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">To connect with the universe<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Except via the flow of spiritual energy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As language in
stead <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Beat Or Join<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">I can’t beat death, so I will<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Join
it & become part of<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">The unbeatable; I can’t join<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Life
either, but I’ve beat it <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Though not with my fists<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>But
with my spirits. Yes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">No body can win death, but<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Everyone
can join the winner<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Life Is, for Me<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">A play, where my role is an extra with few lines<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Where I can never help
uttering bloopers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">A song, which my voice is to sing aloud<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Though I was born a tone
deaf<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">A dream, where my consciousness suffers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every single moment from
insomnia<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Light vs Dark<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All until the sun sets<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Where the dark<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">To engulf<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">The whole world<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Keeps flooding in<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">With dreams<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Of light, dreams<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">All about daybreak <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 151.5pt;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">2019,7,22 [Monday]<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">D-Dream <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">When I was a dream child, I dreamed of all that was
dreamable, including a remarkable ancestor in particular, whom I could brag
about to my playmates. However, as I grew older, I learned that my grandfather had
left us nothing but an unknown family name, while my father was no more outstanding
than any other in the street. So, I began to dream about attaining enough fame,
wealth and/or power to become someone in my own right. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Alas, despite a thousand weeks of psychological and
physiological hardships in the past, I have come only to prove myself as ordinary
as my father and grandfather, whom I have been striving so hard to emulate and,
to my greater dismay, that my sons are even lesser. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Now I still dream from time to time. In the most memorable
one, I come to good terms with my mediocrity. After all, being no body is a
standard form of human being, perhaps no less than a form of nirvana. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">After Fortune <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">All of us were born with an equal and fixed amount
of fortune: If you are fortunate with one thing, you will be not with another;
if you are fortunate now, you will not be then; and if you are fortunate in one
big matter, you will not be in a dozen or even hundred small matters, or the
other way around, with only a few exceptions. As it may come with or without
our knowing it in any, even a formless form, often do we fail to feel fortune.
Naturally, we constantly cannot help complaining about, or spitting curses on our
lack of luck. However, if we just change our own outlook, we are bound to discover
that we have been fortunate enough all the time not only to have been still
alive, but also to be able to find happiness. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">It is true that for every infinitesimal bit of
happiness we may have to go through an unproportionately big mass of
unhappiness; however, the ability to feel happy itself is the greatest fortune
that we are all born with. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Cage & Bird <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I
am a cage, in search of a bird. -- Kafka<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Wherever my mind flies, it’s still<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-hyphenate: auto; text-indent: .5in;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Confined tightly<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">To this world, this very cage of<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sensory
& imaginative cells <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">In other words, I is the cage, while the whole<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-hyphenate: auto; text-indent: .5in;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Universe am a bird <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Mega-Romance: the Longest & Shortest Human Story<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">The couple became one<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Then two, & <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 2.0in; mso-hyphenate: auto; text-indent: .5in;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One again. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Winter Vision (2): To the Tune of Tangent <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; text-indent: .5in;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">As myriad swans duelled deadly <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Up in heaven, their feathers fell<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Among human whims & wishes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Covering the whole world with <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; text-indent: .5in;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">All the whites & silences of <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; text-indent: .5in;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">The season, where a little crow<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Pops up to witness the landscape <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Becoming so united in sight &<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Sound, so seemingly peaceful as for the war <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; text-indent: .5in;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">To continue in whiter earthly wildness<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Melencolia: Albrecht Durer’s Secret to Immortality <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Engraved deep
on his inner slate<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Is not melancholy, but an anagrammed<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-hyphenate: auto; text-indent: .5in;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Limen/door leading right <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">To the (heart of) caelo/heaven <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Back Then: Seven Innocent Sins<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">How I wished to eat meat or seafood once a month! Now
I have enough cash to buy it every day, but I cannot eat what I want because of
so many damned health restrictions!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; text-indent: .5in;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">How I used to need just a few more hours for a
dreamful sleep at night! Now I have more than plenty of time for the bed, but
no more dreams except insomnia! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">How I would fantasize about putting my constantly
hardend young penis in a vaginal! Now it’s way too soft for the most charming
female though easily reachable!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">How I desired to be known locally, nationally &
internationally! Now I have gained some reputation across dozens of countries,
but which turns out meaningless to my selfhood!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">How I longed for money or wealth! Now I have
finally accumulated millions of dollars, but I find that it can give me no real
peace or happiness, except more worries!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">How I envied those having power to play with! Now I
have experimented with both political & apolitical power only to feel
myself even weaker inside than most! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">How I dreamed of living longer than a godlin, but
now with so many bodily problems getting from bad to worse, I often hope to die
while still in decent human shape!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Greatest Regrets<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><i><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Kouzhun’s six renowned regrets in Chinese history:<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">That I have pursued my selfish goals while serving
as a public officer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">That I was not thrifty enough while at the peak of
my financial prime<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">That I did not learn well while still young<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">That I failed to take the lesson after going
through the crisis <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">That I ranted and raved too much while drunk<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">That I paid little attention to my health before
losing much of it<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Vs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><i><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">My little-known private ones after immigration to
the West:<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">That I wasted 5,000 hours of my youth during my schooling years<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">That I failed to develop and explore my initial interest <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">That I fell in love with, and then married the wrong woman<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">That I decided to choose the left one trail at the crossroad <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">That I gave up on my dream<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">That I paid little attention to my innerself then<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">The Art of Meditation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">1/<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Keep every sensory cell of yours<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-hyphenate: auto; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">As widely open as the sky <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">To receive every single <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Perceivable signal in
the universe, &<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Observe closely, more closely<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">How your stream of consciousness flows<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Through fields<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-hyphenate: auto; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Valleys <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in; mso-hyphenate: auto; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Ridges
& …<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">2/<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Or, simply hunt every whim<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Popping up, looming up <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-hyphenate: auto; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Above the horizon of <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Your bubbling consciousness<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Counting Down<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 222.0pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Ten great bottles sitting on the wall – tenth
amendment <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Ninth circuit: Nine tailors make a man – ninth
circuit <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Eight ways to Sunday – eighth wonder<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Seven day wonder – seventh heaven<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Six of one and half a dozen of the other – sixth
under feet<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Five o’clock shadow – fifth column<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Four more years in office – fourth estate<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Three cheers – third degree <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Two wrongs don’t make a right – second nature<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">One good turn deserves another – first rate<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Happy new year! Happy new life!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">First rate. Second nature. Third degree. Fourth estate.
Fifth column. Sixth feet under. Seventh heaven. Eighth wonder. Ninth circuit. /To
the nines. Tenth amendment. /Hang ten. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">One person’s trash is another person’s treasure<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Two’s company; three’s crowd. /2 heads are better
than one. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Three hots and a cot.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie. /<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">: Five golden rings. /<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Seven deadly sins. /<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Nine times from ten. /<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Ten out of ten. /<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Mindfulness <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Of all animals, I used to wonder<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Wondering if fishes really have<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">As they say, the shortest memory of all: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Only seven seconds<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Or, their pasts, if any, are supposedly <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">No longer than the present moment<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">That is, they have virtually no pasts, nor do
they<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Ever care about their futures. They just keep <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Swimming, blowing bubbles, chasing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Their own shadows into ever deeper ends <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">As if in a wide flow of consciousness<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Often would I feel envious of fishes that are <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">So mindful about their each passing moment<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Now I seem to feel like one <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Spiritual Relativity<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">I am a speck of dust, just as it is <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">To the Himalaya Mountain, which is<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Just as it is to the earth, which is just<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">As infinitesimal as it is to the Milk Way<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Which is, in turn, just as tiny as it is <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">To the whole universe, which is<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Again, just as tiny as it is to the imagination<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Where even the indefiniteness itself is <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">No bigger <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Than a tiny concept<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">The Stanza Suggested<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">The stanza suggested standing straight<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">So I did, looking high up<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">(With an inner Hubble Space Telescope)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">At the smallest dark spot, where<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I find you see<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Another thousand Milk Ways glistening<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">In the dim corner of this vast <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Universe, parallel to your imagination <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">As the earth flies with the cosmic winds<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Like a speck of dust<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Breathe light<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">The same cosmos is evolving inside out<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Grammar vs Government: S/He<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At
the very sight, they<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Fell in love with them, but shortly <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">They became unhappy with them<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Though their only soul-mate. They <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Charged them for lying to them <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">All the time &, in no time, put<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Them into prison after long torture<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Without further due, they resolutely<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Remove them from their mind<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">At the very cost of their heart<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Zoological Note<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Though a lousiest swimmer, the cat<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Loves to eat small fishes the most, which<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">In turn, find earthworms most delicious<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Though they can never come ashore<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Let along living deep in soil. Similarly<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">God tied a meaty bone right on my nose<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Which will lead me to keep running<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">All the way to my death, but never<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Allow me to have a single bite of<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">It even in my American dream <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto; tab-stops: 176.25pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: auto;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>poetrypacific.blogspot.cahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14560551510300869695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7776455720328679430.post-9501132037636252372022-10-27T12:27:00.023-07:002022-11-15T08:59:43.820-08:00Changming's 15th Collection Just Published<p><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: medium; white-space: pre-wrap;">Yuan Changming's most important collection, his fourth poetry book published since may 2022 SINOSAUR: BILIINGUAL-CULTURAL POEMS, has just been released by Redhawk Publications, available now at::<br /><a class="x1edh9d7 xmper1u x1fey0fg" href="https://lnkd.in/gyqhA-eT">https://lnkd.in/gyqhA-eT</a><br />thanks for attention, and happy browsing!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 49.5pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-CA">1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><i><span lang="EN-CA">Chansons of a Chinaman </span></i><span lang="EN-CA">[Paperback]<i>. </i>Murfreesboro, TN: Leaf Garden, 2009.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 49.5pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;">2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><i>Landscaping </i>[Paperback]. San Jacinto, CA: Flutter Press, 2013.<b></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 49.5pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;">3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><i><span lang="EN-CA">Mindscaping </span></i><span lang="EN-CA">[e.chapbook]. Halifax: Fowlpox Press, 2014.<i></i></span><i></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 49.5pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;">4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><i>Origin of Letters</i> [e.chapbook]. Chicago: Beard of Bees Press, 2015.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 49.5pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;">5.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><i>Kinship </i>[Paperback]<i> </i>Seattle: Goldfish Press, 2015.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 49.5pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;">6.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><i>Wordscaping </i>[e. Chapbook]. Halifax: Fowlpox Press, 2016.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 49.5pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;">7.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><i>Dark Phantasms</i> [Paperback]. San Jacinto, CA: Flutter Press, 2017.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 49.5pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;">8.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><i>East Idioms </i>[e.chapbook]. Cyberwit.net, 2019<i>.</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 49.5pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;">9.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><i>(R)e.volution </i>[Paperback]. LA: the Wapshott Press, 2021.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 49.5pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;">10.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><span lang="HI" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 宋体;">《袁昌明詩選</span><span lang="HI" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 微软雅黑, sans-serif;">》</span><span lang="HI" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">(</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Selected Poems [e.book]. Vancouver: Poetry Pacific, 2021.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 49.5pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;">11.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><i><span lang="EN-CA" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Limerence</span></i><span lang="EN-CA" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> [Paperback]. Vancouver, Poetry Pacific Press, 2021.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 49.5pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;">12.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><i><span lang="EN-CA" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">All My Crows</span></i><span lang="EN-CA" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> [Paperback]. Grass Valley, CA: Cold River Press, 2022.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 49.5pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;">13.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><i><span lang="EN-CA" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">E.dening</span></i><span lang="EN-CA" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> [Paperback]. Seattle: Goldfish Press, 2022.<i> </i> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 49.5pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;">14.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><i><span lang="EN-CA" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Homelanding </span></i><span lang="EN-CA" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">[Paperback]<i>. </i>Yakima, WA: Cave Moon Press, 2022.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 49.5pt;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 49.5pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;">15.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><i><span lang="EN-CA" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Sinosaur </span></i><span lang="EN-CA" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">[Paperback]</span>. Hickory, NC: Redhawk Publications, 2022. </span></p><p><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibTIkQBmGK-CiWtMt7x6QRK4ui068lrg4pehwaFuhMGmr8msbF5EdGbpvSiUGfpTGAhbvH5VVvVYMyyAb05rdib_gjt4H7ca5Si2djoRB27BQ18sqS5D6uy3uqytBw7cEKMjgjZ53UzFGz6a8tM4qY4vbcELWGE1jkJ32gcyK3zdTLhZnrRnLIWjzi/s2048/unnamed.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibTIkQBmGK-CiWtMt7x6QRK4ui068lrg4pehwaFuhMGmr8msbF5EdGbpvSiUGfpTGAhbvH5VVvVYMyyAb05rdib_gjt4H7ca5Si2djoRB27BQ18sqS5D6uy3uqytBw7cEKMjgjZ53UzFGz6a8tM4qY4vbcELWGE1jkJ32gcyK3zdTLhZnrRnLIWjzi/w480-h640/unnamed.png" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><p></p>poetrypacific.blogspot.cahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14560551510300869695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7776455720328679430.post-31698140464770987292022-09-01T17:25:00.005-07:002023-07-08T13:51:53.847-07:00yuan's lit endeavors updated - sept 1'22<p> 1/ from january to august 2022, got at least 12 poetry acceptances every month on the average, by publications including <i>poetry daily, the muse, meniscus lit j, quadrant, spindrift lit mag, j of new jersey poets, kansas city voice, mpqr, poetry in canada, poetry ni+, </i>among others;</p><p>2/ between dec 24, 2021 and march 21, 2022, finished drafting, in a writing spree never experienced before, my very first novel, a hybrid or cultural trilogy in english, at least 700 words every day without taking a single day off, more than 130,000 words in total, inspired by an old schoolmate, much to my own surprise;</p><p>3/ early this year <i>malahat review</i> conducted a written interview with me about my 'bilinguacultural' poem at http://www.malahatreview.ca/interviews/yuan_interview.html, which this prestigious canadian magazine had nominated for canada's 45th national magazine awards (poetry category), and which was later featured in <i>poetry daily</i> on march 11, at https://poems.com/poem/yin-yang-vs-water-fire-lesson-one-in-chinese-characters/; </p><p>4/ since april, have written six short stories, a genre i've never worked with before even in my mother tongue chinese, inspired by the same person who inpsired me to write the trilogy. amazingly, one of them has already appeared in a uk-based magazine known as <i>aloka</i>, another accepted by a canadian magazine, both to my own happy surprise. and a third just published the following day after i sent my sub over about a week ago;</p><p>5/ on may 5, successfully released our annual anthology <i>poetry pacific (2022 edition)</i> in three different forms, respectively at </p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09YTQGMQ5&source=gmail&ust=1651685873903000&usg=AOvVaw3JakjEEmqyOKcCD2nuzmpK" href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09YTQGMQ5" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">http://poetrypacific.blogspot.com/</a> (for website sampling0</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09YTQGMQ5&source=gmail&ust=1651685873903000&usg=AOvVaw3JakjEEmqyOKcCD2nuzmpK" href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09YTQGMQ5" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/dp/<wbr></wbr>B09YTQGMQ5</a> (for the e.book) &</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09YYGKVK2?ref_%3Dpe_3052080_397514860&source=gmail&ust=1651685873903000&usg=AOvVaw1gGp-8z9DCaYB0hHxRoPIH" href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09YYGKVK2?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/dp/<wbr></wbr>B09YYGKVK2?ref_=pe_3052080_<wbr></wbr>397514860</a> (for the paperback)</div><p>5/ got my 12th poetry book <i>all my crows</i> publsihed by cold river press, available <span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); 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padding: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank"><span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 0px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;">https://</span>lnkd.in/gPPFmyfm</a>;</p><p>6/ got my 13th poetry book<i> e.dening</i> [a love story in poems] published by the seattle-based goldfish press on june 1, available at <a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" href="https://t.co/hE8ejVxiAe" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" role="link" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1d9bf0; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank"><span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 0px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;">https://</span>lnkd.in/gPGwupbB</a>;</p><p>7/ got my 14th poetry book <i>homelanding</i>, a bilingual (english-chinese) edition of a collection including 50 poems about the life of a chinese diaspora, published by yakima, wa-based cave moon press, available at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BB1JBS37/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_6P0FS0WWT1E6G90BNGD2</p><p>8/ got my 15th poetry collection<i> sinosaur</i>, consisting of 120 bilingual-cultural poems, officially accepted by a americal college press in august for publication no later than next spring;</p><p>9/ accepted a chapbook by an american russian professor for publication in the fall;</p><p>yes, since my <i>biguan</i> (or retreat) at the end of last year, i've been extremely busy writing poetry <i>and fiction </i>while working part time as a produce clerk. if 2020 was my year of bilinguacultural poetry, 2021 was my year of love poetry; 2022 has definitely been my year of long and short fiction. fortunately, i've had some breakthrough annually in recent years, thanks as much to the pandemic as to someone particularly important to me. hope to live so reasonably well as to be able to write more and/or get more published before my final exit from this world, though my poetic or fictional work never sells... </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>poetrypacific.blogspot.cahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14560551510300869695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7776455720328679430.post-33260598560606052412022-08-31T10:00:00.029-07:002022-08-31T10:09:10.823-07:00changming's 14th chapbook released<div class="Ar Au Ao" id=":8t"><div aria-label="Message Body" aria-multiline="true" class="Am Al editable LW-avf tS-tW tS-tY" g_editable="true" hidefocus="true" id=":8x" role="textbox" spellcheck="false" style="direction: ltr; min-height: 318px;" tabindex="1"><div class="Ar Au Ao" id=":8t"><div aria-label="Message Body" aria-multiline="true" class="Am Al editable LW-avf tS-tW tS-tY" g_editable="true" hidefocus="true" id=":8x" role="textbox" spellcheck="false" style="direction: ltr; min-height: 318px;" tabindex="1"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPH1xa7-OF6cyHVapCPtI-BwaXylE0-zHODbEv2Gsdpy6UEUiKhiHvg1RY4eKObCpjBLMS7xVHr900p4MRned1IPEzZhrYwrTpQMZke-MOaDdU6fLjZB0Sry7vjHOK-L2PqQu4fF6PzRxDkYnCDfkulChFsNB7Nn7eUEw-xqvgYvbsKFBIaoEbAjl5/s2048/IMG-4257.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPH1xa7-OF6cyHVapCPtI-BwaXylE0-zHODbEv2Gsdpy6UEUiKhiHvg1RY4eKObCpjBLMS7xVHr900p4MRned1IPEzZhrYwrTpQMZke-MOaDdU6fLjZB0Sry7vjHOK-L2PqQu4fF6PzRxDkYnCDfkulChFsNB7Nn7eUEw-xqvgYvbsKFBIaoEbAjl5/w480-h640/IMG-4257.PNG" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><br /></div><div aria-label="Message Body" aria-multiline="true" class="Am Al editable LW-avf tS-tW tS-tY" g_editable="true" hidefocus="true" id=":8x" role="textbox" spellcheck="false" style="direction: ltr; min-height: 318px;" tabindex="1"><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Yuan Changming's third poetry book this year HOMELANDING has just been published by Yakima, WA-based Cave Moon Press, avaliable now at <span style="font-family: inherit;"><a class="qi72231t nu7423ey n3hqoq4p r86q59rh b3qcqh3k fq87ekyn bdao358l fsf7x5fv rse6dlih s5oniofx m8h3af8h l7ghb35v kjdc1dyq kmwttqpk srn514ro oxkhqvkx rl78xhln nch0832m cr00lzj9 rn8ck1ys s3jn8y49 icdlwmnq cxfqmxzd ezidihy3" href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BB1JBS37/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_6P0FS0WWT1E6G90BNGD2?fbclid=IwAR3uWjxCLcT2DBT7O3XEkgOsjdTb1NwgKEFOYpvMvgioehBiX_w9n-jIzF4" rel="nofollow noopener" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/.../ref=cm_sw_r_apan...</a></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">thanks for attention, and happy september ahead!</div></div></div></div></div>poetrypacific.blogspot.cahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14560551510300869695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7776455720328679430.post-10953375775765395812022-06-12T12:26:00.005-07:002022-06-12T21:58:56.954-07:00Yuan's E.DENING just released<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Yuan Changming's 13th Poetry Book E.DENING has just become availalbe at </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dening-Changming-Yuan/dp/195027621X/ref=zg_bsnr_10252_1/136-9858899-6406743?pd_rd_i=195027621X&psc=1">https://www.amazon.com/dening-Changming-Yuan/dp/195027621X/ref=zg_bsnr_10252_1/136-9858899-6406743?pd_rd_i=195027621X&psc=1</a></span></p><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">consisting of 105 pieces, this collection tells a subtle and enriching love story in poems. </div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">published by Goldfish Press, Seattle, June 2022. </div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">RECOMMENDATIONS::</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Yuan Changming is a poet with a rare gift for presenting and probing the intimacies of life, with striking imagery and carefully-chosen vocabulary. The joy and sadness of human experience, and its confronting realities are memorably captured in this collection.</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">- Barry Spurr, Australia's first Professor of Poetry, Literary editor, <i>Quadrant</i> magazine</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The passion of emotion flows as love transcends nature and death. Changming finds the words that bind lovers for eternity.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">- Patricia Ann Mayorga, Editor-in-Chief , <i>Poets' Espresso Review</i></div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">In this precious collection of love poems, feeling flows off the pages into the reader’s heart. There is so much feeling of love, it swallows the reader and he/she gasps for breath. The feeling lingers long after the reading. It stays to become a memory of how this work affects one on into the next day, week, year, the rest of one’s life. One must read it to experience the totality of love. Recommended for all readers, young adult and beyond.</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">- Mary Jo Nickum, Editor-in-Chief, <i>The Path: A Literary Magazine</i></div></div>poetrypacific.blogspot.cahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14560551510300869695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7776455720328679430.post-67658494187929390542022-06-02T10:39:00.003-07:002022-06-02T10:39:41.786-07:00Yuan's newest book ALL MY CROWS just released<p> <b>Yuan's newest book ALL MY CROWS just released</b></p><p>As Yuan Changming's 12th solo poetry collection, <i>All My Crows</i> has just been released by Cold River Press.</p><p>Available at https://www.coldriverpress.com/. </p><p>In this chapbook, the poetry writer employs a typical Chinese perspective to feel about, look at and muse over the crow, a readily observable creature in every corner of the world that is among the most intelligent, most difficult to identify individually, and most mystic as a dark prophet. While one might recall Ted Hughes's <i>Crow: from the life and Songs of the Crow</i>, Yuan's work is actually an uninformed emulation rather than an intended echo of the English poet's "masterpiece" as Hughes himself has called his. </p><p>Critisims are always welcome and appreciated!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggKiT6ep7vB0xYIOb3r4V3EqJhdNElZEVv9jFCOZmcPinSVebFtb60ylry-_iNYFnJdBW0sJ7CeSO_ouYLB2jmA6uHAgfBVYPJaqYnSBfWEMdKBkUW1OsuD4J5yMn0h9gROb22e56BNl3ncJe9Z9UQdpqESmsGzWxCHnexKAOMKCB_x0pKJRYtVQmC/s3264/unnamed.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3264" data-original-width="2448" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggKiT6ep7vB0xYIOb3r4V3EqJhdNElZEVv9jFCOZmcPinSVebFtb60ylry-_iNYFnJdBW0sJ7CeSO_ouYLB2jmA6uHAgfBVYPJaqYnSBfWEMdKBkUW1OsuD4J5yMn0h9gROb22e56BNl3ncJe9Z9UQdpqESmsGzWxCHnexKAOMKCB_x0pKJRYtVQmC/w480-h640/unnamed.jpg" width="480" /></a></p>poetrypacific.blogspot.cahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14560551510300869695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7776455720328679430.post-62192588692777518162022-05-05T10:23:00.003-07:002022-05-05T12:49:26.284-07:00Poetry Pacific (2022) just released <p> <span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" face="-apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap;">dear Poetry Lovers,</span></p><p style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: var(--artdeco-reset-typography_getLineHeight); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); white-space: pre-wrap;">our annual anthology of <i>Poetry Pacific</i> (v. 11, 2022) was released just minutes ago:</p><p style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; 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white-space: pre-wrap;">In this first annual anthology published both as a paperback and e.book, Poetry Pacific (vol.11, 2022) features sixty-six poets from all over the world. Sample content as well as the visual artworks from six artists is showcased on the website (link:: https://lnkd.in/gYAmJ_S).</p><p style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: var(--artdeco-reset-typography_getLineHeight); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); white-space: pre-wrap;"><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /></p><p style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: var(--artdeco-reset-typography_getLineHeight); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); white-space: pre-wrap;">CALL FOR SUBS:: all poetry & visual artworks are welcome year round at editors.pp@gmail.com!</p><p style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); 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white-space: pre-wrap;">with all very best wishes for these continuing challenging times...</p><p style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: var(--artdeco-reset-typography_getLineHeight); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); white-space: pre-wrap;"><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /></p><p style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: var(--artdeco-reset-typography_getLineHeight); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); white-space: pre-wrap;">-pp editorial</p>poetrypacific.blogspot.cahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14560551510300869695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7776455720328679430.post-12913222656189114652022-03-22T10:32:00.083-07:002022-04-04T09:37:43.733-07:00Changming's first (hyrid) novel just finished<p>since 23 december 2021, one day after i announced my retreat in my chinese blogsite, i have been working on my first novel, a hybrid or cross-cultural work of fiction. at 5:05 pm yesterday, i finished my last sentence of my first draft after 88 days of consecutive writing, with an average of 1590 words every day. as planned, the whole novel is divided into three parts, the first about 40 k words, the second and third around 50 k words each. i thought it might take me a whole year to accomplish this self-imposed mission, but actually i spent less than three months. in the next three years, i will keep rivising and polishing it until i feel satisfied with it. i believe it will be a success in one way or another, since i have written all my "bests" into the book.<br /><br /><br />quite to my own surprise, i had no idea what to write about and how to proceed with the project to begin with. all i had been feeling in the few days immediately before i opened up a new file/page in front of my computer was a strong impulse, an urge, a desire to write a book as a way to release my intensive feeling towards my first love, for whom i wrote and got accepted almost one hundred love poems in English in 2021 alone. naturally, the book will be devoted to her as my wellspring of inspiration and encouragement, as well as to my wife for her support and understanding.<br /><br />tentatively titled Edening, the novel will be published either by Poetry Pacific Press, or by a better established publishing house, hopefully within five years. <br /> </p><div><div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div></div></div>poetrypacific.blogspot.cahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14560551510300869695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7776455720328679430.post-46396257482701257682021-12-22T10:16:00.009-08:002021-12-22T10:18:00.392-08:00yuan's lit updates - 22dec1/. got 31 acceptances in october, 16 in august, and 14 in december, among which 42 were from new magazines for the first time, including Denver Qtrly, Poetry Hall and Dreich. Added to the list of countries where i have poetry published is kazakhstan: as of today, i have had poetry accepted or forthcoming in more than 2000 literary outlets, across 48 countries; <div><br /></div><div> 2/. On nov 20, Pink Plastic House, a new us-based online magazine informed me that they had nominated my poem 'features: for helen hengxiang liao' for the 2021 pushcart prize https://kristingarth.com/pink-plastic-house-a-tiny-journal/the-haunted-dollhouse/haunted-dollhouse-season-2/features-by-yuan-changming/. this is my 12th time nomination for the honor; </div><div><br /></div><div> 3/ On 20 december, Malahat Review, one of the most prestigous literary magazine based in canada, told me that they had nominated 3 of my 'bilinguacultural poems' for cananda's 45th national magazine awards (poetry category). the three pieces were originally published in issue 216 of the magazine, which recently published an interview with me on its website (link: http://www.malahatreview.ca/interviews/yuan_interview.html) </div><div><br /></div><div> 4/. beginning from today, i will start to retreat from all outreaching activities for a period of time. by way of this self-imposed 'hiatus' or confinement, i can concentrate better on some of my most private pursuits. this self-confinement has been long-overdue.. now is high time, since i have published all the important writings thus far (in case i should fail to survive the pandemic). here are the links:: </div><div> - LIMERENCE (Vanncouver: Poetry Pacific, 2021). https://www.amazon.com/Limerence-yuan-changming/dp/B0991CGXLJ
- (R)e.volution (LA: Wapshott, 2021). https://www.amazon.com/R-volution-Poetrylandia-6-ebook/dp/B08XQ5RRSS</div><div> - 《袁昌明詩選》(Selected Poems of Yuan Changming) (温哥华太平洋诗歌出版社,2021年)。 https://www.amazon.com/%E8%A2%81%E6%98%8C%E6%98%8E%E8%A9%A9%E9%81%B8-Traditional-Chinese-%E8%A2%81-%E6%98%8C%E6%98%8E-ebook/dp/B092TRSGXM </div><div>- 《憂 華 集》(My Chinese Concerns) (温哥华太平洋诗歌出版社,2021年). https://www.amazon.ca/%E6%86%82%E8%8F%AF%E9%9B%86-Traditional-Chinese-%E8%A2%81-%E6%98%8C%E6%98%8E-ebook/dp/B09348KQG5 </div><div>- 《致初恋:一个知青的海外生涯》(Letters to My First Love)(温哥华太平洋诗歌出版社,2021年)
https://www.amazon.com/%E8%87%B4%E5%88%9D%E6%88%80-%E4%B8%80%E5%80%8B%E7%9F%A5%E9%9D%92%E7%9A%84%E6%B5%B7%E5%A4%96%E7%94%9F%E6%B6%AF-Traditional-Chinese-%E6%98%8C%E6%98%8E-ebook/dp/B09BLSWF5C</div>poetrypacific.blogspot.cahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14560551510300869695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7776455720328679430.post-81912403053059704612021-10-05T15:15:00.000-07:002022-05-21T08:16:06.881-07:00[archived poems by yuan: 2019-1©]<div><br /></div>2019, 6, 24 Monday<br />
<br /><br />
Inner Gardening<br />
<br />
Dig the bottom of <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
Your heart well, turn it<br />
Into a flowerbed, &<br />
You could grow plenty roses<br />
Even for every passer-by, while keeping<br />
Your front yard<br />
Full of spring fragrance<br />
Year round & round<br />
<br />
<br />
Interphysical Insights: Air Conditioner<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
<br />
Dismantle all<br />
The inner & outer<br />
Air conditioners<br />
In your residence, &<br />
Your body (as well as your heart)<br />
Will naturally become<br />
More adaptable<br />
To a much wider range of<br />
Temperatures<br />
<br />
<br />
Interphysical Insights: Subtracting<br />
<br />
Better to remove the dirty<br />
From your body (& heart)<br />
Than to keep it free of<br />
Foul odour by adding onto your skin<br />
Patches of patches of perfume<br />
<br />
<br />
Interphysical Insights (4): Power Spot<br />
<br />
Close to the tall puti tree<br />
Planted deep in my heart’s backyard<br />
I kneel-sit still & strait, just to sunbathe<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>My entire protobeing, where<br />
It becomes fully charged<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Inside out, with most powerful light<br />
<br />
<br />
Interphysical Insights (5): Cleaning the Feel<br />
<br />
Rather than a trash can<br />
To dump to<br />
From time to time, why not<br />
To have an incinaerator<br />
To readily<br />
Dispose any inner garbage you may have?<br />
<br />
<br />
II (6): Self-Strengths<br />
<br />
If only you could<br />
Replace<br />
Every ‘me and’<br />
With ‘my’<br />
<br />
You would become an ‘I’<br />
Both much larger &<br />
Stronger<br />
<br />
II (7): On a Long Stormy Night<br />
<br />
Keep hope burning, &<br />
You will never lack<br />
Warmth or light<br />
In your whole inner space<br />
<br />
<br />
II (8): Alternative Living<br />
<br />
Far beyond the feel<br />
Is always a little unknown flower<br />
Blooming fully into my senses<br />
<br />
π<br />
<br />
let it<br />
be the predetermined constant<br />
in human algebra, or simply<br />
happiness<br />
<br />
(or wisdom?)<br />
<br />
the ratio of a lifetime’s length L<br />
to its spiritual growth S is then:<br />
<br />
π = L/S<br />
<br />
that is, if happiness is something fated, fixed<br />
the more spiritual growth you attain<br />
the longer you would live<br />
<br />
<br />
Law of the Vital Few<br />
<br />
40 percent of mundanity <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>plus<br />
40 percent of hardships<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>makes 80 percent<br />
Of life, which is<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>indeed composed of<br />
One damned thing<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>after another, all<br />
Vs<br />
Only 20 percent happiness of <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>varying degrees<br />
<br />
So, every tiny bit of joy <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>is worth<br />
As much as <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>four times more<br />
Suffering in one way<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>or another<br />
<br />
<br />
Riddle<br />
<br />
Deep in the heart<br />
Of Lakoobama<br />
Hides the dark spirit of an unknown bird<br />
Like the leopard frozen in the snows<br />
Of Kilimenjaro<br />
Rather than the forged Voynich Manuscript<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
Whose text everyone understands<br />
Yet none can decode the message<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
My Neighbour across the Street<br />
<br />
She spends all her visible time<br />
Being exquisite in a history with no disturbance<br />
<br />
Living alone in a quite old bungalow, she has<br />
Few visitors year round, except perhaps<br />
Her unseen relatives. Her voice never heard<br />
Her movements always leisurely, walking in &<br />
Out, mowing her slightly slanting lawn, taking<br />
Meticulous care of her heathers & other<br />
Tender plants. Sometimes dressed in a color<br />
Like a bloated blue bell, or a shrunk grizzly<br />
Sometimes wearing a high hat reminiscent of<br />
An antelope. Our only communication for<br />
The past decade has been her old black fit<br />
Parked occasionally on our side of the street<br />
(& our red civic almost touching her front yard)<br />
<br />
Observing from my high window, I often cannot<br />
Help wondering if she is a metamorphosed mice<br />
In some lab, or myself in a segregated zoo<br />
<br />
<br />
I Give up a Strong Desire<br />
<br />
Long long have I longed<br />
<br />
To write (all my very superlatives<br />
Into) a book, a masterpiece, hopefully<br />
With every vivid descriptive detail, &<br />
Sophisticated suspension, all designed<br />
To work perfectly for a super sur-plot<br />
In a unique inner-outer setting, both<br />
<br />
As factual as fictional, as<br />
Full of in-<br />
<br />
Sights into the human nature as into<br />
My own protobeing<br />
<br />
But alas, after nearly one thousand attempts<br />
I finally decide to stop, mainly because of<br />
My fear about failure to find a close reader<br />
Other than myself<br />
<br />
Because I know my writing never appeals<br />
To any editor even in my mother tongue<br />
<br />
Because<br />
<br />
Indeed, to live my story is, after all<br />
More urgent than to story my life<br />
<br />
<br />
Longevity Tree<br />
<br />
In my backyard I planted two trees<br />
One is, hopefully, an evergreen poem<br />
The other my split soul<br />
Both to outlive my blood & flesh<br />
<br />
But neither ants nor squirrels seem to<br />
Care about the metaphor leafed at the tip<br />
Of every twig, or the message buried right<br />
Under the root<br />
<br />
<br />
Mutation of Mankind<br />
<br />
It’s taken us hundreds of thousands of years<br />
To evolve from primitive chimpanzees<br />
To sapiens, but as we intake plastic particles<br />
With other biochemical compounds, inhale<br />
Polluted air, implant chips or install artificial<br />
Body parts, even inscribe our genetic maps<br />
We are changing<br />
We have changed ourselves<br />
In an infinitesimal fraction of history. Yes<br />
<br />
We may still retain our human shape, but<br />
Clothed inside, we are a new species<br />
Much more (or less)<br />
Than we used to be<br />
<br />
<br />
The Fall & Rise of Man<br />
<br />
Long after our fall from Eden<br />
We are now, at last, rising again<br />
<br />
From broken pieces<br />
Of spirituality (through science<br />
<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Or knowledge again)<br />
To a secular species<br />
<br />
An authentic animal kind<br />
Living on our bodily desires only<br />
<br />
<br />
0.618<br />
<br />
Like the Confucian principle<br />
Of the Golden Mean<br />
The ideal (optimisation)<br />
Times this magic number<br />
Yields the best<br />
& most practical solution<br />
<br />
Just a bit above the average<br />
You can enjoy the benefits<br />
Of all the possible best<br />
While avoiding their pitfalls<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Happy deathday to you<br />
<br />
<br />
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<br />
2019, 5, 22 Wednesday<br />
<br />
Spring Agitating<br />
<br />
The sprouts are rising, rising from beneath<br />
As all seeds wake from their lost dreams<br />
Each growing slowly with its naked heart<br />
<br />
& body amidst freezing darkness, as light shoot<br />
From all the nightmares towards the morning glow<br />
<br />
Everything is rising, including their hibernated hope<br />
Just feel it around you: the air is full of green spirits<br />
<br />
& yet there is nothing, nobody able to prevent all<br />
This rising with infinite vitality of the season<br />
<br />
<br />
Briefly Noted<br />
<br />
Tale about Two Species<br />
A.I. Robot (Cloud).<br />
Fancy yourself being a quantum.<br />
What does a quantum do?<br />
It entangles with another quantum in a parallel universe of course.<br />
Why?<br />
Who knows why.<br />
<br />
It keeps entangling.<br />
<br />
Until like a dying star it’s sucked into a black hole, &<br />
All entanglements become de-tangled.<br />
Since then, consciousness has formed one interstellar cloud after another.<br />
Where you are the same entangling quantum entangled…<br />
<br />
<br />
Sun Reality<br />
<br />
Democritus says, nothing exists<br />
Except atoms & the empty space<br />
Everything else is opinion<br />
<br />
But when this very opinion of his finally reaches us<br />
Through the space of history, we will all have gone<br />
With both atoms & the space<br />
Except perhaps consciousness<br />
Shimmering in a tiny corner of sky<br />
<br />
<br />
Essence of Living<br />
<br />
Wedged tightly<br />
Between memory<br />
(Of our pasts) &<br />
Imagination<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(About our futures)<br />
<br />
We are living only<br />
In this very present moment, when<br />
<br />
All our cells & spirits are blooming in space<br />
<br />
<br />
Raging against the Crow in the Park<br />
<br />
Disguised as a pigeon, you’ve just had<br />
Enough food<br />
From my palm<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(& heart); then, you flap high up<br />
Beginning to circle above me, ready<br />
To flee away only after<br />
Shitting on my head<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>& heart (again)<br />
<br />
<br />
Epigraphs to Be Edited <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
<br />
1/ <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Having returned to dust<br />
I still have my shadow<br />
Dragging long behind<br />
<br />
2/<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Within the infinities of<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Time and space, my soul<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Is another micro-cosmos<br />
<br />
3/<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>A stranger here to observe<br />
<br />
4/<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Ready to rise<br />
Between yin & yang<br />
Between 0 & 1<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Between memory & imagination<br />
<br />
5/<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>To be more or even<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Less than a sapien<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>In my next life<br />
<br />
1. off line<br />
2. tuned out<br />
3. game over<br />
4. id expired<br />
5. a static statistic<br />
6. too tired to toil for more fame and money<br />
7. here I have found freedom, equality and fraternity<br />
<br />
<br />
Driving Force behind the Football<br />
<br />
More freedom in time<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>& space<br />
Will insure a great success, for example<br />
The railway allowing to travel<br />
Farther, or the spotlight to see at night<br />
<br />
<br />
Variations of the First Line in Anna Karenina<br />
<br />
All handsome faces are alike; each<br />
Ugly face is ugly in its own way<br />
<br />
All winners of life are alike; each<br />
Loser is lost in their own way<br />
<br />
All human bodies are alike, each<br />
Soul is intriguing in its own way<br />
<br />
<br />
Personal Dilemma in 21st Century<br />
<br />
With the most updated GPS<br />
In my car, & a biggest tank overfilled with<br />
Gas, I have no destination to go<br />
<br />
<br />
Rebirth/Growth<br />
<br />
I have been fighting against<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>All enemies in the first half<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Of my life<br />
<br />
Now is time to try to defeat my own<br />
Self, my single last foe in the second<br />
<br />
<br />
Meta-Trilogy of Man<br />
<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Playing childhood at home<br />
Growing in the wildness of the outer world, before<br />
Retuning to innerself<br />
<br />
Multimillionaire<br />
<br />
Starting from illiteracy<br />
I have accumulated more than<br />
Plenty of words<br />
To buy<br />
To spend, &<br />
To donate<br />
As many as I wish<br />
<br />
Indeed, whoever dies rich<br />
In words unused, dies disgraced<br />
<br />
<br />
Again, Come & Go<br />
<br />
As a vacuum<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>at a corner<br />
I work only about half an hour<br />
<br />
It is an obscure role on the stage:<br />
All the dust & bits of waste<br />
Are eagerly swallowed up<br />
From the floors<br />
Except toys & fixtures<br />
<br />
Yes, I could belly across<br />
Every carpeted area, cobra up<br />
Like a ballet dancer. I could<br />
French-kiss the smallest mouth<br />
& embrace the darkest corner<br />
I could even sing at will &<br />
At the top of my voice <br />
<br />
But as a vacuum<br />
I can only take in the unwanted<br />
<br />
<br />
Sur Bamakoola<br />
<br />
You forget space bloated outside you<br />
& not the other way around<br />
Many situations it has sucked in<br />
Brownish wetland behind the mind<br />
Or amid cries of a morning infant<br />
Also, stalking behind a wolf, chasing…<br />
<br />
But hold – how about stop for a while<br />
As feelings flee from the feel?<br />
<br />
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2019, 4, 25 Thursday<br />
<br />
That<br />
<br />
That that that that that-<br />
Obsessed wordsmith uses<br />
Repeatedly<br />
Right in the first line is<br />
In fact correct<br />
Grammatically, but politically<br />
<br />
Wrong<br />
Let alone poetically<br />
<br />
<br />
Broadway.com<br />
<br />
If ever at all, if only once<br />
If you were<br />
To have such a chance<br />
<br />
Just keep driving<br />
Drive forward<br />
With no need to take a shoulder check<br />
<br />
Despite so many beside you<br />
Despite so much ahead & behind –<br />
<br />
Along this new highway, your car<br />
(Like your body or thought)<br />
Will adapt its shape like a stream<br />
Of water running its own course<br />
From past to future, amidst<br />
Programmed sapiens, through<br />
The flow of data<br />
<br />
Until at the meeting point<br />
Between yin & yang<br />
Between 0 & 1<br />
Between time & space<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Sonnet for a White Crow<br />
<br />
In the backyard<br />
Of my heart<br />
To the other side<br />
Of the world, the bird is ready to fly<br />
Above its own two wings feathered<br />
With hope<br />
<br />
In the other side<br />
Of the world<br />
To the backyard<br />
Of my heart, the bird is flying<br />
With its own two wings feathered<br />
Above hope<br />
<br />
From pre-positions, it has finally flown away<br />
Along the snowline to my deepest inner space<br />
<br />
<br />
Most Hateful (That Is)<br />
<br />
Wind blowing everything up, bothering<br />
Every peaceful object, bugging each of<br />
My skin cells & nerves though I hate<br />
To be moved. It’s blatantly against my<br />
Free will & consciousness, stirring up<br />
My senses inside out, as<br />
<br />
It kidnaps my protobeing & throws me<br />
Into a corner like yesterday’s newspaper<br />
Where with all the headlines, I am forced to join<br />
<br />
The waste of daily life, exactly when<br />
I wish to stand aside still<br />
Like a tree, just to observe how it blows<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
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<br />
Ideogramic Compounds: Learning Chinese Characters<br />
<br />
思: thought takes place<br />
In the field of heart<br />
<br />
闷: depressed when your heart is<br />
Shut behind a door<br />
<br />
臭: stinking if you are overly<br />
Self-big<br />
<br />
忍:tolerate with a knife<br />
Right above your heart<br />
<br />
<br />
At the Tip of the Human Tongue<br />
<br />
Bonito<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Kimchi<br />
Bresaola<br />
Greek cheese<br />
Yunnan Tuotea<br />
Moët & Chandon<br />
Etc, the like, &….<br />
<br />
[Not unlike Li Bo’s poetry<br />
Beethoven’s music<br />
Da Vinci’s painting<br />
Shakespeare’s plays]<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
<br />
Each an hourglass<br />
To keep time flowing, each is<br />
A stored bottle of champagne<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Regularly<br />
Turned upside down<br />
In an obscure corner of history, to thicken the flavor<br />
<br />
<br />
Only You Understand It<br />
<br />
I’ve just drafted a poem for you<br />
Neither in English nor in Chinese<br />
But in Greek (that no one under-<br />
Stands except you)<br />
<br />
Without going through a renaissance<br />
Rendition, you will recognize a Platonic feeling<br />
Well contained within a Homeric stanza, where<br />
You are to fall in love with a Hellenic robot <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
As of this very first sight<br />
<br />
<br />
Creative Matrix<br />
<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Like water<br />
Life flows <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>along<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Fiction rendered into fact<br />
<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Like steam<br />
Consciousness evaporates <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>above<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Evil turned into good<br />
<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Like ice<br />
Spirits crystallizes <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>beyond<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Ugly made beautiful<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Beyond the West Hill<br />
<br />
Everywhere the thought is looking for you<br />
<br />
Sometimes at comet’s speed, other times<br />
Wandering around, like a lost ghost<br />
Through bushy forests & barren fields<br />
<br />
Until it pauses by a rugged riverbank<br />
<br />
But will it reach you in wildness?<br />
Will you receive it when it finally falls<br />
Upon you, offering itself as a sacrifice<br />
To one of your outburst emotions?<br />
<br />
<br />
You Are the Shape of What You Feel<br />
<br />
I keep burning my spirits<br />
But the shape of fire remains<br />
Unchanged to each watching eye<br />
<br />
So quietly when it reaches out its light<br />
As if to the blinking eye of night wolf<br />
<br />
<br />
Silver, Spoon<br />
<br />
All of them were born<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>With a silver spoon<br />
In their mouths, but me<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>With a silver chop-<br />
Stick while you<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>With a bronze spoon<br />
<br />
So we both have much to complain: my single chopstick<br />
Can hardly pick up anything, whereas your bronze spoon<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Tastes only too awful<br />
<br />
<br />
Denouement<br />
<br />
Well, you murmured, all that has melted into air.<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Or it will<br />
Well, you whispered, all that has melted once for all.<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> & it will<br />
<br />
With a universal avalanche of starry silence, all<br />
Gods will disappear among other human stories<br />
The earth itself will be sucked into a black hole<br />
All visible remains & records are to vanish into void<br />
<br />
Every female will have been programmed into 0, while<br />
Every male into 1, far thinner than his bloated penis<br />
<br />
<br />
Lost<br />
<br />
Last month it was my cellphone<br />
Last night, my back head, where was<br />
Implanted a wrong chip. & last<br />
Moment I found my mind missing<br />
<br />
Going back along the way, I tried<br />
To retrieve it from my rage against<br />
A rude fellow driver. Then in a fit<br />
Of joy about the first child I had.<br />
Followed by a deep regret… until<br />
I got confused between memory &<br />
Imagination, the former stored in<br />
The left chamber of my heart, the latter<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>In the right.<br />
<br />
When it was over-<br />
Whelmed with joy or bitterness, I<br />
Cannot tell which is my true past<br />
(Or my possible future) as it over-<br />
Flows from memory to<br />
Imagination; perhaps, with my protobeing<br />
<br />
The two might be somewhat identical, or<br />
Other (than) wise (?)<br />
<br />
<br />
Catch 21: A Canadian Sonnet<br />
<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Were this inspired by luck per se<br />
It could appear in an anniversary edition of TRM (or Fiddle-End)<br />
Won the prize for the short poem of the year, &<br />
<br />
As I continue to add more syllables, this<br />
Poem might well be included in a best of the best anthology<br />
Or would even win a first CBC or GG prize, but alas<br />
<br />
I am neither a politically correct enough author<br />
Nor does this piece really meet the strict requirements of<br />
Perfect mediocreness. Rather, a victim of Canadian<br />
<br />
Conspiracy, I know this art(less)work is fated to fade<br />
Into an invisible pile of ellipses in front of a nice editor<br />
That are actually words written in bold, lines connectable<br />
<br />
For example, to a blinking screen of dataism, or an icy page of<br />
History, where the English cannon has long since been melting<br />
<br />
<br />
The Unhappy Minority<br />
<br />
…before I joined the great and, I believe, the happy majority. – P. T. Barnum<br />
<br />
After leaving the unhappy minority<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> You have come to<br />
Settle your protobeing down newly<br />
At Sphinx’s nose tip<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Between yin & yang<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Among bloated sea foams…<br />
<br />
<br />
Speciation<br />
<br />
O yeah! There are still sapiens on Earth. Often do we remember & feel more than proud that only we Superors exist, we the most sophisticated & most exquisite human-robot compounds. It is true that from time to time we cannot help recalling one or two of them, like Shakespeare & Einstein, but that’s when they pop up unexpectedly from the back of a chip as a couple of forgotten algorithms. Their story tells them they are much more developed physically & intellectually than chimpanzees, while in the heart of history the latter is at least spiritually far more respectable. Since sapiens have proven good for nobody, nothing but a sub species of waste wasting endless earthly resources, how can we rid Our planet of them in such gargantuan crowds? -- To genocide them once & for all, or just to wait for their total self-destruction?<br />
<br />
<br />
Story Exists Because…<br />
<br />
Nothing else connects us who connect ourselves<br />
Only through stories. Each of us is a story from<br />
A different teller. Told at dawn or dusk.<br />
<br />
Believe. Buy. Change. Or share. It is<br />
The network full of spiritual nexuses. Such as<br />
Gods. Empire. Democracy. Equality. Datatism.<br />
<br />
Yes, it is story being constantly recreated. Told &<br />
Retold as it attracts both the human heart & body to<br />
Kill a big elephant, or hunt down a Frankenstein<br />
<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
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2019, 3, 22 Friday<br />
<br />
Isn’t It<br />
<br />
An ill wind<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>That blows<br />
Every body good? Isn’t it<br />
An ill blow<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>That hits<br />
Every body’s heart? Isn’t it<br />
An ill heart<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>That betrays<br />
The truth about every body? Isn’t it<br />
An ill body<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>That just consumes<br />
Every kind of earthly resource? & isn’t it<br />
An ill earth<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>That provides resources<br />
To the human body only? Is it?<br />
<br />
<br />
Coinage<br />
<br />
For nearly half a century I have been searching<br />
Searching everywhere<br />
For a single word<br />
Omnipotent as God himself<br />
That can be used<br />
Simultaneously as a beautiful noun<br />
Signifying the greater cosmos<br />
As well as my personal paradise<br />
A powerful verb, both transitive & intransitive<br />
Referring to the performance of my protobeing<br />
In any way I want to put it up<br />
& a modifier<br />
Describing the mood of air constantly changing<br />
Within an unrhymed stanza<br />
<br />
Alas, I just cannot find such<br />
A word, into which I can compress all my<br />
Feelings & spirits like a chip<br />
<br />
So, I have invented this one for myself (& you?):<br />
Bamakoola<br />
<br />
<br />
House Advisory<br />
<br />
Roof: Always stand high & look afar beyond!<br />
Attic: Fix the leak first!<br />
Ceiling: Never hit the ceiling with megalomaniac!<br />
Wall: Turn around before getting a nasty bump on your head!<br />
Balcony: Stand aside to take a bird’s view of the situation!<br />
Window: let some light enter your life!<br />
Floor: Set your feet firmly in reality!<br />
Stairs: [Watch your step! Or] Take one step at <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>a time!<br />
<br />
A few more from fixtures:<br />
<br />
Air conditioner: Keep cool & calm!<br />
Bed: Dare to dream!<br />
Clock: Treasure every minute!<br />
Calendar: Go along with the times!<br />
Mirror: It’s necessary to examine your life from time to time!<br />
Table lamp: Live to illuminate others!<br />
Toilet: [Most important,] just <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>let <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>it <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>go<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>!!<br />
<br />
<br />
There Is Never<br />
<br />
A ruler so powerful as to rule out the rules, nor<br />
A historian knowing so much about the past<br />
As to see the ultimate truth, nor<br />
<br />
A philosopher so wise as to stay insightful in love, nor<br />
An artist so talented<br />
As to express her innermost vision, nor<br />
<br />
A star so lucky<br />
As to win a prize without putting up a show, nor<br />
A tree so straight<br />
As to hold all its twigs vertically, nor<br />
<br />
A dog so humble as not to wave its tail, nor<br />
A watercourse so long<br />
As not to join the flow of data, nor<br />
<br />
A mountain so tall as to hear the whispers of gods, nor<br />
A robot so smart<br />
As to interpret subconsciousness, nor<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
A chip so large as to store the complete file about your protobeing; indeed<br />
There is never a thing or human so much so as<br />
To be, or not to be<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>a human or thing<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>at all<br />
<br />
<br />
We Need<br />
<br />
Nature, [which, alas, never<br />
Needs us.] We need<br />
God, [who, alas, never<br />
Needs us either.] We need<br />
<br />
Data, [which, alas, will never<br />
Need us?] We need<br />
IT, [which, alas, will find us most<br />
Sapiens useless or redundant too?]<br />
<br />
<br />
Century of Super Stories<br />
<br />
Though never written or told<br />
They have been constantly unfolding<br />
Both in & outside the human mind as liberalism<br />
Against imperialism, & communism<br />
Besides all their variations<br />
<br />
Until now not a single ism or story<br />
Has really survived<br />
Among data dictating all audiences<br />
<br />
<br />
Salmon vs Trout: a Sexual Metametaphor<br />
<br />
Upon his regular return<br />
To his native river<br />
After myriad oceanic hardships<br />
<br />
He just misses the trout<br />
<br />
As she happens<br />
To leave her home lake once & forever<br />
For an ever newer wave in the sea<br />
<br />
<br />
Languacultural Poems (9): Verbal Conjugations<br />
<br />
As many as 78<br />
Different conjugations<br />
Of a single regular verb in Spanish<br />
Multiplied by three basic forms<br />
Vs<br />
One & the same verb in Chinese<br />
<br />
Pinpointing<br />
<br />
All alphabetic languages & Euro-American culture<br />
As a time-sensitive civilization<br />
Juxtaposed with<br />
The space-sensitive languaculture<br />
Within the roughly square-shaped Chinese character<br />
<br />
<br />
Storying<br />
<br />
If, amidst all the earlier stories<br />
Including the Pyramid<br />
The Sumerian Code of Ur-Nammu<br />
Bhagavadgita, & Zhuolu Battle, God is<br />
The most told of yesterday<br />
Communism the largest of<br />
Last century. USA the most powerful<br />
Of today, & dataism supposedly, hopefully<br />
Unimaginably quickly<br />
<br />
The rosiest of<br />
Tomorrow or, rather, the day after<br />
<br />
<br />
Similarly<br />
<br />
Every human being is as much of a story in its own right<br />
As every word, every poem, every picture, every book<br />
Every library, every city, every province, every country<br />
Or government, even every civilization, each being well<br />
<br />
Set in a desert of time & space<br />
Constantly changing its boundaries<br />
As the wind of history keeps blowing<br />
From everywhere, from nowhere<br />
<br />
Until now <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>the biggest <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>story <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>is yet<br />
To be <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>told, retold <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>& <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>de-told<br />
About <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>there being <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>no <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>story<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> at<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> all<br />
To <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>begin <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>with, <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>again<br />
<br />
<br />
Obscurity<br />
<br />
Obscurely<br />
You came<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> naked<br />
Among nothing but a few cries<br />
From a struggling young woman until<br />
You live to die<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> fully clothed<br />
With nothing more than a few cries<br />
From one or two relatives (if any)<br />
<br />
Between these two suffering cries are<br />
A short dash on a stone, the only object<br />
Related to you that remains standing<br />
Against oblivion<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>A stony silence<br />
<br />
A flash fiction about<br />
How much waste you have incurred as<br />
You leave <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> as naked<br />
Obscurely<br />
<br />
<br />
Mega Interim<br />
<br />
For the first time in the human history<br />
All meta & mega stories have been<br />
Created, told, retold, de-told, un-told<br />
Until now there is no new story<br />
Just as tellable yet<br />
Except perhaps<br />
The human & manmade consciousness<br />
<br />
<br />
Story of Infinity<br />
<br />
Set in time & space<br />
In light vs dark<br />
Imagination keeps<br />
Acting & reacting endlessly, dramatically<br />
As each civilisation supports the main plot<br />
In numerous numbers<br />
<br />
That’s how the only two human infinities<br />
Are set a part in<br />
So many non-human infinities<br />
<br />
<br />
Packaging<br />
<br />
Just as everyone<br />
Is masked, clad or costumed<br />
Everything is<br />
Packaged<br />
For presentation<br />
Outside one’s inner self<br />
<br />
Even the skin is<br />
Tattooed for show, where<br />
The truth is never skin deep<br />
<br />
<br />
Hocus Pocus<br />
<br />
This [bread] is no other than<br />
Jesus’ flesh<br />
This [horse’s open mouth] is<br />
Vaisvanara<br />
This [word] has<br />
A magic power<br />
This [fish head] brings<br />
Courage & posterity<br />
This [fluid] cures<br />
All diseases<br />
This [sequence of syllables] drives away<br />
All evils & devils<br />
This [ritual] ensures<br />
Good weather & good harvest<br />
This [hat/hood] guarantees<br />
Purity, loyalty<br />
This [flag] leads right<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> To paradise<br />
This [man] is<br />
A living god<br />
This [statue, foiled or not] is<br />
Omnipotent<br />
This [chip] will transform us<br />
Into superbeings<br />
<br />
So long as man is in his story,<br />
All is well that believes well<br />
<br />
<br />
All <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> That Is Solid Melts into Air<br />
<br />
All that is liquid <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>flows<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> into data. All<br />
That is conceptual evaporates into cybospace. <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>All that<br />
Is genetic/ scientific <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>condenses into <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>an algorithm<br />
All that is artistic <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>/spiritual/cultural disperses into<br />
Digital<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> being. All that is<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>human evolves into story<br />
<br />
<br />
Fear, Jealousy, Hatred, Anger, or Shame<br />
<br />
Hidden deep in a dark corner of his heart<br />
Like a fly in the ear of a bull<br />
<br />
When it can no longer<br />
Stand the irritation<br />
The bull begins to<br />
Run, running amuck<br />
In the china shop of his entire life<br />
Where it can break every exhibit<br />
Into sharp pieces<br />
<br />
<br />
Oriental Philosophy<br />
<br />
Leading to Laozian Dao<br />
Or Dharma in Bhagavadgita<br />
Is <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>the balance<br />
Between yin & yang, or<br />
Among the three doshas<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Authority<br />
<br />
Then from God to Man<br />
Now from Man to Algorithm<br />
We upload ourselves<br />
Onto the file of the cosmos<br />
Stored like an olive fruit<br />
<br />
At one end is !Kungs<br />
The other Superbeings<br />
In the middle all of us, useless<br />
<br />
But when the tree falls<br />
The fruit will not fall; rather<br />
It will suspend itself in the air<br />
Rotten<br />
<br />
<br />
Human Chip<br />
<br />
As AlphaZen beat Stockfish 8<br />
I finally came to see<br />
Who am I ?<br />
-<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>A biochemical algorithm<br />
Where did I originate?<br />
-<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> From a bunch of material elements<br />
Where am I going?<br />
-<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Into a virtual world<br />
<br />
<br />
Nowadays, There Is No Train like a Poem<br />
<br />
That can take you with so few other<br />
Passengers right through storms to<br />
A realm far beyond the season<br />
<br />
There is no car like a rhymed stanza<br />
Of a literary ballad, where you can<br />
Travel along with all your luggage<br />
<br />
There is no seat like a line of blank verse<br />
That from time to time throws you<br />
Into a dream before arriving at your destiny<br />
<br />
There is no space or time like a single<br />
Word into which you can compress all<br />
Your inner being to achieve immortality<br />
<br />
<br />
Busy – fragmented life<br />
<br />
Whose is this life as, between wake and dream<br />
We spend every other minute looking at a screen?<br />
<br />
Every other minute checking a message from<br />
A friend, relative, total stranger or machine<br />
<br />
Every other minute responding to a hail<br />
Which turns out nothing but a junk mail<br />
<br />
Every other minute continuing to search for info<br />
Just to find the website stopped operation long ago<br />
<br />
Every other minute trying to finish a game<br />
Before the battery is finally running out<br />
<br />
Every other minute watching the video<br />
As real drama is unfolding around us<br />
<br />
Every other minute returning to an article<br />
Written & uploaded by a misbehaving robot<br />
<br />
Not our whole life this as, between wake and dream<br />
We spend every other minute looking at a screen!<br />
<br />
<br />
Hope Has No Feathers<br />
<br />
But like a kite it may fly high<br />
Above the season in the sky<br />
Whose string is<br />
Held tight<br />
In the hand of a running soul<br />
<br />
<br />
Triolet – 8 syllables+lines : abaaabab<br />
<br />
Of all that’s really worth a wish<br />
Including words like wordsworth<br />
I wish to wish, I wish to swish<br />
A worthier word like Wordsworth<br />
Dish, fish, swish, whish<br />
<br />
<br />
Deep Dream<br />
<br />
You will never be there<br />
Even during sleep<br />
Though both how and why<br />
You may well know. What you don’t<br />
Understand is the diction<br />
Behind the words<br />
The images juxtaposed, or<br />
The feeling evoked<br />
As the AI author ends the poem<br />
With the way I lost<br />
My way in a paradise<br />
<br />
<br />
Every Tree<br />
<br />
Is livelier & lovelier than<br />
An artwork like poetry or painting<br />
<br />
An artwork that is unique, graceful, whose<br />
Twigs embrace sunlight and moonshine alike<br />
<br />
An artwork that roots deep in reality<br />
With each of its leaves smiling at the sky<br />
<br />
An artwork that stands firm in time & space<br />
Against the earth’s most violent storms<br />
<br />
An artwork is a deformed child like this poem<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>But a tree grows out of the essence of universe<br />
<br />
<br />
Universe / Nature<br />
<br />
Looking up, I know<br />
Even IC 1101 will be disappearing<br />
Sooner or later, together<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
With Shakespeare’s plays, Einstein’s thought<br />
& American fleets into total void; & down<br />
Even the red red rose will wither<br />
Sooner than later, out there<br />
In the imperial garden<br />
<br />
So, to attain immortality (or eternal beauty?)<br />
I have finally come to see, is<br />
To believe my own story<br />
Unfolding right in this moment, where & when<br />
The very idea of infinity can be eternalized<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
No Internet, No Life: a skinny poem<br />
<br />
Come off the line, & the fish<br />
Would<br />
Die<br />
Of<br />
Hunger<br />
Would<br />
Gnaw<br />
Deep<br />
Inwards<br />
Would<br />
Come off the line, & the fish<br />
<br />
<br />
2019, 2, 20 Wednesday<br />
<br />
Deep Feel<br />
<br />
I love my native country<br />
Vehemently <br />
As I detest its culture<br />
<br />
I love my father<br />
Much<br />
As I dislike his personality<br />
<br />
I love my son<br />
Greatly<br />
As I deplore his lifestyle<br />
<br />
I love my selfhood<br />
Dearly as the whole human race<br />
As I despise its animalness<br />
<br />
<br />
Evolution (from Sapiens)<br />
<br />
In the melting shadows<br />
Of last mammoths & dinosaurs<br />
Have been eliminated gods, saints<br />
One by one, followed by<br />
Heroes & even gentlerens until<br />
<br />
Our entire human world is now packed<br />
With survivors among villains, clowns<br />
Hypocrites, money-bags, &<br />
Super subhumans (after another ice age)<br />
<br />
<br />
Catching<br />
<br />
Given a mood of air<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(Even if without mindfulness)<br />
I could readily tell<br />
A human soul from a speck of dust, or<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Otherwise, &<br />
<br />
Given a flash of enlightenment, or<br />
A flash fiction<br />
I could catch the soul<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Flying by<br />
Like an entangled quantum (of light?)<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
<br />
Personal Quest<br />
<br />
From east to west<br />
Among worst & best<br />
In the world real &/or virtual<br />
I have been trying<br />
<br />
Trying hard to<br />
Find a fellow human<br />
As high-minded as high-mannered<br />
But alas, no one is living<br />
As a true gentleren<br />
<br />
As I so strongly wish to see<br />
As we all should live to be<br />
<br />
<br />
Immortality<br />
<br />
Worth may be rare<br />
Work can be bare<br />
But words will live forever<br />
As a digital being to declare<br />
<br />
<br />
Simplest<br />
<br />
Way to give your life<br />
A meaning<br />
Is to come up<br />
With an answer to<br />
Every why<br />
About whatever you do, or<br />
Wherever you are<br />
With a statement<br />
Beginning with<br />
Be [the] cause…<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Tug of War<br />
<br />
Constantly set<br />
At a tug of war<br />
Is our mind<br />
(& heart as well?)<br />
Between yin & yang<br />
<br />
<br />
Then<br />
Between white & black<br />
<br />
<br />
& now<br />
Between 0 & 1<br />
<br />
<br />
Sniffing Tiger Re-Viewed<br />
<br />
The tiger in me<br />
Sniffed every rose<br />
On its way<br />
<br />
The tiger has trampled down<br />
Every rose in me<br />
On my way<br />
<br />
The tiger will miss<br />
Every rose<br />
On its way in me<br />
<br />
To prey upon the antelope<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
So Full<br />
<br />
Is my heart<br />
Like the moon<br />
<br />
Now is<br />
High time<br />
To celebrate<br />
(Or meditate)<br />
<br />
The roundness of life<br />
The joy about the mid-autumn festival<br />
<br />
<br />
Human Evolution<br />
<br />
Forward, or<br />
Backward<br />
<br />
Being more civilised<br />
Is<br />
To be less<br />
Of a human animal<br />
<br />
In one way or another<br />
<br />
<br />
Landscaping<br />
<br />
Whoever stands<br />
On the mountain<br />
Is its very peak, while the shore<br />
Is the sky right<br />
At the end of every sea<br />
<br />
<br />
Mirror vs Glass<br />
<br />
Without a reflective film<br />
Coated on the surface of the glass<br />
We can clearly see through it<br />
The whole outer world<br />
Except our own face<br />
Let alone our mind<br />
<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
2019, 1, 24 [Thursday]<br />
<br />
Red Nos as Sonder Reversed<br />
<br />
Open Sesame --<br />
<br />
If only you were willing<br />
To take a look at this little door &<br />
Even decide to<br />
Step in, there you would<br />
<br />
Readily find your whole protobeing<br />
Lost in just another parallel wonderland<br />
<br />
<br />
Another Limbo<br />
<br />
Hypnagogic, or<br />
Hypnopompic<br />
My protobeing lost itself entirely<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> In the moment of<br />
Creation when the word begins<br />
To loom on the horizon, where<br />
<br />
Yin keeps agitating<br />
Within the feel of last night<br />
As yang rises against the morning glow<br />
<br />
<br />
Soft Power <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
<br />
Readily shapable <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(as water)<br />
Warm, salty <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(as blood), &<br />
Clear enough to lubricate<br />
Eyeballs<br />
(As well as hearts)<br />
This artificial teardrop could move<br />
The whole world into action<br />
<br />
If only, no, only if<br />
You could inject into it a feeling<br />
Of love, or of tolerance <br />
<br />
<br />
Pigeons vs Wolves<br />
<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Their shit falling on every square &<br />
Statue in the city, too many pigeons have ruined<br />
The land- & mindscapes, while wolves are driven<br />
Farther & farther into wildness, breaking<br />
The food chain & even the whole ecosystem<br />
<br />
Go away, Pigeons! We have had enough symbolic<br />
Peace (& real war), but welcome back, Wolves!<br />
Together with you might there be fewer elks<br />
Coyotes, but more foxes, more rabbits, while<br />
More trees like poplars & willows can return<br />
<br />
<br />
Three Minutes before Suicide<br />
<br />
Did he see a stranger’s face<br />
Smiling to him? Did she hear<br />
<br />
A friendly greeting? Did it<br />
Have a traditional meal?<br />
<br />
Did the poor boy get a fatherly pat<br />
On his shoulder? Did the old woman<br />
<br />
Receive a sincere call? Did the bear<br />
See a helpful hand or claw?<br />
<br />
Did his wife give the investor a kiss?<br />
Was the new therapy mentioned to<br />
<br />
The patient? Did someone happen<br />
To chat with the lonely senior?<br />
<br />
Did you<br />
Or myself?<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
At the Depth of Darkness<br />
<br />
Together with yesteryear<br />
Yesterday has<br />
Shrunk, shrinking into<br />
A thinning line in the mind<br />
As tomorrow looms larger & larger<br />
Until it overwhelms the whole<br />
Day today in this very moment<br />
<br />
Now it’s too early for many people<br />
Too early for so many people; the sun is still<br />
Floundering on the other side of the ocean<br />
<br />
<br />
Play Word<br />
<br />
If you could<br />
Which English word<br />
Would you become? Which?<br />
<br />
I would as lief<br />
Be ‘life’:<br />
<br />
I may well turn out a ‘lie’<br />
Without f--, but possessed in this word<br />
My spelling contains many an ‘if’<br />
<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Yes, to live a life is to<br />
Go through as many an if<br />
As you might wish to wish<br />
<br />
<br />
Another Prayer<br />
<br />
Jesus my dear Lord! <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
<br />
Were I<br />
Really to have an afterlife<br />
I hope to become a wolf, or<br />
A fir, for instance<br />
<br />
Just to be a bit more, or even less<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Than a human being<br />
<br />
<br />
As I Walk in Autumn<br />
<br />
A leaf dropped right<br />
Onto my shadow<br />
<br />
I thought it was an angel<br />
Of the season<br />
Trying for a tryst<br />
<br />
With my protobeing<br />
Lingering long behind<br />
<br />
<br />
This Grass<br />
<br />
You must see someday:<br />
(It’s always harder than in<br />
The case of a flower)<br />
After it was<br />
<br />
Burned as many as ten times by the climate<br />
Trodden twenty times by the foot<br />
Broken thirty times by the wind last year<br />
<br />
Yet this tiny & humble grass<br />
Is standing straight up again<br />
With no less pride & dignity<br />
Returning green with the whole season<br />
<br />
<br />
The Noise<br />
<br />
This noise that from time to time<br />
Wedges itself between us<br />
Will pacify my protobeing<br />
<br />
What it believes is<br />
There is no muted assonant silence<br />
<br />
<br />
Be/Longing<br />
<br />
Every body/thing<br />
Be/longs some one/where<br />
Some time<br />
<br />
Even the human mind<br />
(Let alone the heart)<br />
Is embedded<br />
Within a frame of feel/words<br />
<br />
<br />
Progressing<br />
<br />
Higher & Higher<br />
Into the high space<br />
Flies the robot’s spirit<br />
<br />
Yet lower & lower<br />
Down to hell<br />
Falls the human mind<br />
<br />
As a result of gravity?<br />
<br />
<div>
<br /></div>
poetrypacific.blogspot.cahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14560551510300869695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7776455720328679430.post-21643513194976873502021-10-04T10:35:00.005-07:002021-12-21T08:49:34.113-08:00yuan's lit endeavors - oct 3<p><br /></p><p>1/. got 14 acceptances in july, 14 in august, and 17 in september, among which 30 were offered by new magazines for the first time, including <i>New World Writing</i> and <i>Malahat Review; </i></p><p>2/. On July 2nd, a small American press informed me that they would postpone the publication of my collection "Straddling Stanzas" until next year. The book included more than 30 what i have invented and called 'Bilinguacultural Poetry', which seems to have been quite well recognized by editors in Britain, America, Canada and Australia. I hope time will prove that this is one of my most important literary contributions.</p><p>3/ On July 10, Pacific Poetry Press published my first love poem collection LIMERENCE both in paperback and as a kindle e.book. this is my tenth and the latest published English poetry collection, which contains 47 original love poems written in the past year or so; upon publication, about half of the poems had already appeared online or in paper magazines. In fact, this book is intended as a token I had prepared for my soulmatethe in case i could not survive the pandemic. links: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B09946XHNS/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=kindle+ebooks+poetry+limerence+yuan+changming&qid=1626024915&sr=8-1 (electronic version) https://www .amazon.com/dp/B0991CGXLJ?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860 (paper back)</p><p>4/. On July 31st, Pacific Poetry Press put out the fifth book I have published this year, which is also my last (autobiographical) Chinese work <i>Last Letters to My First Loves</i>. This book is a memoir based on my personal experience as a village boy who grew to be a supposedly well educated person and became a first generation immigrant in canada. The main content of the first half was posted in my chinese blogsite with creaders.net eight years ago, under the general title of "Love Letters from Vancouver." but for a happy coincidence, the second half would never have been written to begin with. as in the situation of LIMERENCE. this book was published ahead of plan in case i could not survive the new crown plague. Connection: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09BLSWF5C</p><p>5/. On September 22nd, i published <i>On the Corner of Walk and Don't Walk</i>, a collection of English poems by Mr. Duane Anderson, both as an e.book and in paperback (kindle edition). links: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09GZSQYCD; electronic version: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09GWBTF1L</p><p>6/. On September 24, a small California-based press accepted my chapbook "All My Crows" for publication sometime next year, which includes 30 lyrical poems about crows. . The book was actually accepted by another small press as early as 7 or 8 years ago, but only to be later dismissed because the press suddenly stopped operation. at least half of these poems have been published in relatively well-established magazines. i am aware that things might change before a book actually appears, but the fact that it has been accepted twice is comforting enough to me. </p><p>7/. On September 26, i published <span style="font-size: x-small;">《<span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111;">胡說八道〉(Eight Lectures) by </span></span>dr 胡子 (Hu Zi, pen name) as an e.book in kindle edition in traditional chinese. The book includes hundreds of mini essays writing in a humorous style about the cultivation of body, mind, and spirit. Because there are illustrations and tables in the book, the editing and typesetting process was repeated more than 10 times. it took a lot of work, but the result was not satisfactory! link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09H6HP35H</p><p>8/. In recent months, I have written another ten love poems. In fact, since the beginning of the epidemic, I have been unable to return to my native country to meet my long lost first love. the only way to be together with her is to articulate my innermost feelings towards her. So far, I have written 48 English poems for her, and 5 to 6 original Chinese poems, of which 35 have been accepted or published. If my greatest creative achievement last year was to write and publish dozens of "bilinguacultural poems" in English, this year it is to have written and published dozens of love poems in English (all for one person).</p><p>9/. for more than half a year already, i have been hesitating a lot. though there are still many topics to write about, i decided, after waking up at two o’clock this morning, to discontinue my chinese blog series titled "Chinese Concerns'《忧华集》; instead, i plan to start examining my life and write about my thinkings over human life. more specifically, i will write about what i have realized about happiness, love, family, and other l most essential aspects of human life. at my age, it is high time to do such a thing to hopefully add some 'value' to my life as a human being through platonic exmination. </p><p><b>Authors interested in publishing books in either English or Chinese are welcome to contact me at any time. Phone: 778/371-0952; Email: editors.pp@gmail.com</b></p>poetrypacific.blogspot.cahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14560551510300869695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7776455720328679430.post-13708436977171130492021-09-01T07:29:00.000-07:002021-09-01T07:29:43.552-07:00[archived poems by yuan: 2018-2©]2018, 12, 21 [Friday]<br />
<br />
Bitten<br />
<br />
Something keeps returning<br />
To the heart<br />
A little old guilt, like a mosquito circling back<br />
Again on a sleepless night – biting deep<br />
Into your flesh each time<br />
After you wave it away, as it makes<br />
Every shapeless concentration of thrombosis<br />
<br />
<br />
A summer devil, attracted by the blood<br />
Enjoys driving away all nice & cool dreams<br />
<br />
The heart pumps blood without stop<br />
Often do you suffer insomnia, with<br />
Your capillaries constantly irritated<br />
By a seemingly innocuous vampire<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
<br />
<br />
You + Me<br />
<br />
Each time you fall asleep<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>In the depth<br />
Of darkness<br />
Don’t fear, my dear<br />
<br />
I will stay close on guard<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Like the sun on the other<br />
Side of the world, keeping<br />
Your dream warm, &<br />
Fully illuminated<br />
<br />
When you rise with a morning<br />
Glow, my light will cast a shadow<br />
Always ready to follow you<br />
Preventing your soul from lagging behind <br />
<br />
<br />
Folios<br />
<br />
My study has a small section for dreams<br />
Another for history, & all other<br />
Shelves for hundreds of<br />
Printed material containing my poetry<br />
<br />
One day, to a ghost familiar to my<br />
Other self, I try to show off with my own work<br />
But just could not find a single line between<br />
The two sections newly messed up<br />
<br />
<br />
Another Butterfly Effect<br />
<br />
Gracefully, her left ring finger flaps<br />
Its unseen wings against a guching string<br />
There at the deep heart of a bamboo<br />
Forest<br />
& here in the English Bay<br />
A tiny fish jumps out of the farthest<br />
Boundary of the northern gyroscope, &<br />
God knows how many days<br />
Will pass before a tsunami roars<br />
In Southeast Asia<br />
Or a political tornado<br />
Sweeps across Northern America<br />
<br />
<br />
Tea Party<br />
<br />
Each time I gather with one or two old friends<br />
From history or literature for a couple of tea, I<br />
Set my clock about half an hour later<br />
<br />
Than all the time devices in the outside world<br />
Just to make us a group somewhat out of fashion<br />
So we can enjoy each other’s company in the past<br />
<br />
Totally unaware of the happenings in the present moment<br />
There we are about to sip from my proud enameled teapot<br />
When police sirens disturb us, as if<br />
<br />
To remind us of the crimes and accidents in the street<br />
Cannot help wondering: are we not allowed to keep a distance<br />
To reflect upon, or to predict the future as posthumous?<br />
<br />
<br />
Introduction to Modern Art<br />
<br />
I would like you to meet Modern Art<br />
<br />
Just in the same way as you found<br />
Your other half the other day<br />
Whom you fell in love with<br />
(Right at first sight), but intending<br />
To comprehend<br />
(Neither for a single moment, nor for<br />
The rest of your lifetime)<br />
<br />
<br />
The Souls<br />
<br />
Myriad souls keep floating around us<br />
Like so many unseen specks of dust<br />
<br />
While we are making bed or preparing<br />
Our lunch. They follow us closely<br />
<br />
In swirls of entangled quanta as they try to<br />
Dance to the melody of our innermost songs<br />
<br />
They rise and fall but never disappear<br />
From among us, & when we sit or stand still<br />
<br />
In meditation, they might be blown away by<br />
A gust of summer wind. Hanging around, they<br />
<br />
Find no path into the blank pages of history, always<br />
Wandering like lost travellers between hell & heaven<br />
<br />
<br />
Re-Creating<br />
<br />
Towards the autumn sky<br />
I make a shape of heart<br />
With my clumsy hands<br />
This is the feel of life<br />
I tell the cloud<br />
<br />
This is to illuminate the dark<br />
Dreamland like a search light<br />
I tell the crow stalking behind<br />
Like the spirit of my late<br />
Father. This is to gather all<br />
<br />
The positive energy in the world &<br />
Send it to the future. I tell my<br />
Unborn grandson. This is the cycle<br />
Of life & the philosopher’s stone<br />
<br />
I tell the skeletal copse. This is<br />
The circle to fill in with cries<br />
& laughs.<br />
I tell my other self<br />
Beyond cosmic wall, as if<br />
To balance yin and yang<br />
In the whole universe<br />
<br />
<br />
Oblivion<br />
<br />
The first to go is the name<br />
Like the title of this little poem<br />
<br />
Then the image represented<br />
By a thousand words, as if<br />
<br />
One by one, the waves rushing<br />
Against the beach, where not a single<br />
<br />
Footprint is left by a snow goose<br />
Stopping by during migration<br />
<br />
<br />
China<br />
<br />
Having nothing better to do, I kill<br />
Time by looking at a traditional<br />
Chinese painting on my iPad<br />
<br />
Much enlarged, it appears like<br />
A plain sheet of rice paper<br />
Smeared with ink. I view it<br />
<br />
In the presence of bonsai; I<br />
Drop several thick strokes to the floor<br />
Of history, leaving a few fine lines<br />
<br />
Behind the sofa, & failing<br />
To catch a colorless corner<br />
Between black and white<br />
<br />
It is a landscape newly relocated<br />
Into my heart’s backyard. Then I sit<br />
On my legs, meditating about there<br />
<br />
Being no light in the picture, no<br />
Shadow of anything, no perspective<br />
As in hell. Isn’t this the art of seeing?<br />
<br />
<br />
To the Scientist Feeling Awkward on 25 August 2256<br />
<br />
On this 300th anniversary<br />
Of mine, you simply<br />
Cannot help feeling<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>25 % less happy than<br />
<br />
Normal? That’s because<br />
My lost soul is trying to hack<br />
The chip implanted deep<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> In your heart!<br />
<br />
<br />
Of Happiness<br />
<br />
Everyone wants to be happy, but not every one lives a happy life in reality. Some were born with a happy character, some grew to be cynical and pessimistic, while others keep wishing to live happily. Some try to attain happiness through money or other tangible categories, others do so via fame or abstractions.<br />
<br />
While most often confuse and confound happiness with success, achievement or other socially acknowledged measurement, few know that happiness per se is nothing but a personalized feel, a climate of the heart, a sustainable sense of self-content, a subjective choice and, as such, it has nothing to do with any ‘impersonal’ construct like money, merchandise, property, reputation; rather, it sis readily attainable to anyone any place anytime, like the air we inhale, since it can be achieved only within. This being the case, it is not only helpful but also necessary to develop a positive mentality.<br />
<br />
Indeed, only when we learn to treat even the very worst with an optimistic attitude can we hope to live in true happiness. While one may suffer from unhappiness, another can still be happy even if s/he has a poor health and lives in poverty. Happiness is a choice to make for those who have to learn with a heavy heart, but a part of nature for those born and bred with a light heart. So long as you want to be happy, you can actually live a happy life no matter who you are, what you have, where you live.<br />
<br />
Self-Healing<br />
<br />
Rolling my entire inner self<br />
Into a fallen leaf, but leaving<br />
A crack at the tip, I hope<br />
To let in some sunlight<br />
So I can warm up again, or<br />
Make a whistle against the cold<br />
<br />
<br />
Cycles<br />
<br />
1/<br />
Paved in time with petals<br />
Shades, leaves & snow<br />
The same road leads me through<br />
One year to another<br />
<br />
2/<br />
The blue earth will evaporate<br />
Like a dew when another<br />
Civilization crystalizes from chaos<br />
<br />
3/<br />
I am not writing poetry<br />
Rather, it is poetry<br />
That is writing me, again<br />
<br />
4/<br />
1 is a line from past to future, while<br />
0 is the circle surrounding life<br />
<br />
<br />
Chiaroscuros (tenebrism)<br />
<br />
Antlike moments surging forward<br />
Towards a distant shiny coastline<br />
<br />
A beam of moonlight shooting<br />
Through a thick forest at night<br />
<br />
A lost crow cawing alone & aloud<br />
Against the whole snowing season<br />
<br />
That heavenly whim illuminating<br />
A thousand miles of hellish darkness<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
2018, 11, 23 [Friday]<br />
<br />
Better to Break up, Allen<br />
<br />
because you deserve a truly fine or 'better' girl,<br />
because you need all the more to focus on your career development,<br />
because you two may probably have disparate underlying values,<br />
because even if you manage to save the relationship, she'd 'betray' you later,<br />
<br />
because (like her dad) she seems incapable of retaining a lifelong relationship,<br />
because she appears frivolous or not serious about you, love, sex & marriage,<br />
because her love for you is not concentrative and enduring enough,<br />
because such unstable pre-marriage relationship is not worth saving, <br />
<br />
because she cares significantly less about you than the other way around,<br />
because the more you try accommodating her, the more she is to be 'spoiled,'<br />
because she shows less honesty and loyalty than she ought to,<br />
because she is not intelligent enough at least in terms of academics,<br />
<br />
because her pretty face and figure (her only true 'value'?) depreciates soon,<br />
because her family lacking faithfulness, trust and commitment apparently affects her,<br />
because her-uncommitabilty doesn't deserve your deep or unconditional love,<br />
because it is a waste of time, effort and affection to go on dealing with her,<br />
<br />
because she may turn out too 'newer-minded', childish & willful for you,<br />
because her personality is stronger than you can comfortably cope with,<br />
because she is not a good or 'perfect' fit to you,<br />
because 'you can take the horse to water, but never make her drink',<br />
<br />
because it's better to suffer short-term pain now than long-term torture later,<br />
because …<br />
<br />
<br />
Bucket List<br />
<br />
1.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>last year: find a short cut leading all humans to happiness;<br />
2.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>last month: invent something allowing men to piss without spilling;<br />
3.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>last week: travel to a foreign unpopulated mountainous area;<br />
4.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>last day: climb onto the highest spot in a forest;<br />
5.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>last hour: settle down under a tall and straight tree like a dying elephant;<br />
6.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>last minute: look as far as possible at the landscape like Sphinx;<br />
7.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>last second: release my inner being so that it can fly up;<br />
8.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>last mini second: join the proto consciousness of the cosmos; and<br />
9.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>the rest of time: drift around every quantum entangled with my other selves<br />
<br />
Sonnet in Prepositions: Yes, It Is Right<br />
<br />
Among the buds ready to stretch out<br />
Beneath the mid-autumn moon<br />
Circa 50 BC; down a rugged trail<br />
Except when He needed a pen to draw<br />
<br />
From hilltop to hilltop; in an alphabetic<br />
List where neither g nor h can be<br />
Found; like j and k; minus all masks &<br />
Sloughs; near the end of twilight; on the day<br />
<br />
When frogs had just lost their voices<br />
Per sight; qua art; re: immigration to<br />
Asgardia; since the breaking up of the soil<br />
Than the matrimony of two snow geese<br />
<br />
Under the lowest cloud; via Styx<br />
Within the absence of x, y & z<br />
<br />
<br />
Neutralization<br />
<br />
High mInd + Low poInt Of Happiness<br />
Yields<br />
The salt of Earth (wisdom?) &<br />
Water … under a bridge<br />
<br />
Or<br />
<br />
Hardships of life<br />
Plus<br />
Reflections upon experiences<br />
Leads to<br />
Poetry (?), & fragments of<br />
Feeling<br />
<br />
<br />
Sonnet in Split Infinitives: Just Fancy Them<br />
<br />
To really stay far apart from each other<br />
Within the same inner space. To almost<br />
Completely have gone to the far end<br />
To not spill darkness over the horizon<br />
<br />
Of mind. To in this manner treat<br />
Their loved ones. To heavily knock before<br />
Struggling to enter the backdoor of God’s heart<br />
To totally ignore the rules & conventions<br />
<br />
To boldly go when no women<br />
Have gone before. To nobly<br />
Maintain a low profile<br />
With tyrannical pride<br />
<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>To surely & steadily go along. To deeply<br />
Drive 1 into 0. To ever yang with yin<br />
<br />
<br />
Master of My Selves<br />
<br />
You have a whole pack of selfhoods, constantly<br />
On the run, bolting ahead, or lagging behind<br />
While sticking their noses in gifts left behind<br />
<br />
By other quasi dogs. Sometimes, one jumps<br />
Ahead of you. Another sprinting far off into<br />
Invisibility, & a third dancing around you<br />
Like the shadow of a daruma doll. However<br />
<br />
None of them really outpaces your living<br />
Consciousness or your protobeing. Leashed<br />
As each of them is, they arrive at your final<br />
Destination almost exactly at the same time<br />
<br />
As your mind stops functioning, you cannot<br />
Help wondering: I am their only master, or<br />
Just one of them to catch up with another?<br />
<br />
<br />
Sound Effect<br />
<br />
O! Fill in this vowel’s empty mouth<br />
With every confluent consonant<br />
<br />
Until the circling letter is blown<br />
Into a loud note of exclamation!<br />
<br />
<br />
Second Hometown: Written for Visual Verse<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
As a brand new settlement, this quasi-<br />
Utopian Jamestown lies deep<br />
In the heart land of another Asgardia, where<br />
There’s no sun or moon shining in the sky<br />
No god looking down from above, not even<br />
A tree, a hill or a stream in the background<br />
But humans can enjoy all the leisurely moments<br />
Trickling out of their overly crowded buildings<br />
<br />
As in a classic Chinese painting, where<br />
There’s always plenty of light illuminating<br />
Everything brightly, but leaving not a single<br />
Shadow in the whole landscape, where night<br />
Seems more impossible than darkness<br />
<br />
As if in Tao Yuanming’s Peach Colony, where<br />
People live in colorful harmony<br />
With nature, never aware of<br />
The New World, much less<br />
The triumphant Trump or<br />
His America First<br />
<br />
(written between 9:35 and 9:45 am on 6 November 2018)<br />
<br />
<br />
Towards the End of a Beginning<br />
<br />
Now is the high time<br />
To begin the ending<br />
By ungrowing<br />
Into happy childhood<br />
Lost long ago<br />
<br />
To rejuvenate our<br />
Retirement<br />
Day by day<br />
Until our inner beings<br />
Join His innocence<br />
As newly old newborns<br />
<br />
<br />
The Most Meaningful<br />
<br />
With so many more meanings<br />
Than any other English word<br />
<br />
Run has finally run out of definitions<br />
<br />
In a dictionary as in a layman-<br />
Defined life, much like mine<br />
<br />
<br />
Negativities<br />
<br />
Unhappiness oozes<br />
From your inner<br />
Self, a different<br />
Kind of sweat. It’s<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>As if your protobeing has<br />
Just run a Marathon race<br />
& burned out all<br />
The unwanted fat<br />
In your body<br />
<br />
<br />
& now it’s outside<br />
Of you, unhappiness<br />
Not a dehydrated waste<br />
But a by-product of<br />
The consciousness. Like this<br />
<br />
It will evaporate soon<br />
Under the afternoon sun<br />
Until what remains is<br />
The other version<br />
Of past each time<br />
You do a vigorous<br />
Inner exercise in the wild<br />
<br />
<br />
Gaining Perfect Health<br />
<br />
Keep shining brightly<br />
In your inner universe, &<br />
Your heart will dispel<br />
<br />
Every shade of darkness<br />
Warm each cold corner, &<br />
Nurture each spiritual cell<br />
<br />
<br />
At Qingming Festival<br />
<br />
True, it can never grow<br />
Like a real seed, but<br />
My father’s bone ash is<br />
So well planted there<br />
<br />
In the rich soil of his<br />
Native village, it has kept us<br />
Hoping & hoping<br />
For just another harvest<br />
<br />
<br />
What’s All This About?<br />
<br />
As the blind fortune teller caressed the face<br />
Of a patron, she knew the shapes, & color<br />
By the flesh flushing to her tenderest touch<br />
<br />
The sun was rising when I reached out my hands<br />
For the stretching shadow, & began to feel<br />
The slippery darkness from the world’s other side<br />
<br />
<br />
Trees in the Depth of Autumn<br />
<br />
The season shakes the whole forest, blowing<br />
Every twig into a note of the rustling melody<br />
<br />
From light green through yellowish to dark<br />
<br />
Brown, as layers of layers of leaves retreat<br />
From the sun as if peeled off like an onion<br />
<br />
<br />
Language Acquisition: for Katie<br />
<br />
You are learning the rules of syntax:<br />
With a diphthong, you call Mama<br />
In English (or yeye in Chinese), &<br />
In a single syllable, you pronounce<br />
Go after your favourite (winnie) pooh<br />
<br />
Unaware of an world overly crowded<br />
With nouns as subjects, you know it is<br />
A verb that helps to convey a meaning<br />
It is a subject followed by a predicate<br />
That makes you a statement of innocence<br />
<br />
<br />
On New Year’s Eve, Again<br />
<br />
At each new year’s gathering, crowds<br />
Count aloud to ten in every dialect:<br />
Ten, nine, eight, seven, six<br />
Five, four, three, two, one<br />
As if to remind themselves in a ritual<br />
Of what will turn to be the other side<br />
<br />
Of when. Just minutes ago, you received<br />
<br />
An automatically sent phone message:<br />
If you do not act at once, you will be<br />
Arrested. A mischievous call it seems<br />
But I could have launched an evil missile<br />
To blast the police headquarters for failure<br />
To safeguard the peace of a whole inner world<br />
<br />
<br />
Tuning in with Liu Weijian: a he Poem<br />
<br />
So profoundly delighted am I<br />
In listening to your xiao music<br />
As it resonates with my inner voice<br />
<br />
That I could die here & now in comfort<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
After finally finding my best audience<br />
Much like Bo Ya meeting with Ziqi<br />
<br />
<br />
Set Tight against It<br />
<br />
The river through the city<br />
Is littered with snags<br />
Dumped by the storms<br />
On their way to the sea<br />
<br />
Snags don’t leave with storms.<br />
Floating up and down on the surface<br />
They become invisible to lookers-on<br />
Like hidden notes of history<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
2018, 9, 23 [Sunday]<br />
<br />
As I Get Newly Old, My Dad Mailed<br />
A Reminder to Me, Which Says<br />
<br />
Soon you can no longer see anything, anybody clearly<br />
Enough with or without your glass, even at a close range<br />
<br />
Some pain will bug you here at a joint, or there<br />
In an organ, and become part of your daily life<br />
<br />
Also, your lower leg skin will sometimes get so itchy<br />
You’d scratch them with a metal brush, or peel it off<br />
<br />
You can afford to eat whatever you dreamed of in the country<br />
But doctors will advise you to avoid any seafood, even meat<br />
<br />
While you cannot focus well during the daytime, it is<br />
Often a big battle to fall asleep in the heart of darkness<br />
<br />
You will visit the washroom more often than you’d like to<br />
But fail to urinate clean or excrete to your heart’s content<br />
<br />
Seldom will you find yourself among fellow humans<br />
Nor can you make new friends as you could before<br />
<br />
You will walk more slowly until you lose mobility &<br />
Carsickness will return & make you nervous again<br />
<br />
You will go through all such & many other sufferings<br />
Besides being chased by darkening shadows of death<br />
<br />
But you can enjoy more freedoms than ever before, &<br />
Stop saying or doing whatever you would rather not<br />
<br />
<br />
Foreword<br />
<br />
The plum-apricot tree bears less<br />
And less fruit somehow<br />
With each passing year<br />
When it grows in my backyard<br />
<br />
Its twigs reach higher<br />
And farther to the neighboring yards<br />
Like lines from a poem<br />
Before its author conceives it<br />
<br />
<br />
Sonnet Starters: a Found Sonnet<br />
<br />
When I have fears I may cease to be<br />
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?<br />
<br />
I met a traveller from an antique land<br />
Death, be not proud, though some have allowed thee<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
How do I love thee: Let me count the ways<br />
Let me not to the marriage of two minds<br />
<br />
When I consider how my light is spent<br />
Remember me when I am gone away<br />
<br />
I have been one acquainted with the night<br />
Sundays too my father got up early<br />
<br />
Earth has not anything to show more fair<br />
Whoso list to hunt, I know where is an hind<br />
<br />
Do not stand at my grave and weep<br />
Love is not all: It is not meat nor drink<br />
<br />
<br />
Metamorphosis Points<br />
<br />
I would paint my skin<br />
Into a colorless color, & I would dye my hair<br />
Wear two blue contacts, & I would even<br />
Go for plastic surgery, but if I really do<br />
I assure you, I will not remove my native village<br />
Accent while speaking this foreign tongue (I began<br />
To imitate like a frog at age nineteen); nor will I<br />
Completely internalize the English syntax &<br />
Aristotelian logic. No, I assure you that I’ll not give up<br />
Watching movies or TV series, reading books<br />
Listening to songs, each in Chinese though I hate them<br />
For being too low & vulgar. I was born to eat dumplings<br />
Doufu, & thus fated to always prefer to speak Mandarin<br />
Though I write in English. I assure you that even if I am<br />
Newly baptized in the currents of science, democracy &<br />
Human rights, I will keep in line with my father’s<br />
Haplogroup just as my sons do. No matter how<br />
We identify ourselves or are identified by others, this is<br />
What I assure you: I will never convert my proto selfhood<br />
Into white Dataism, no, not<br />
In the yellowish muscle of my heart<br />
<br />
<br />
The Smartphone<br />
<br />
At daybreak, my wife unplugs it from the charger<br />
Puts it into her transparent bag & goes to work at YVR<br />
In a hurry, playing with it whenever she can, the gadget<br />
Of post modernity. Occasionally, back at home, I look at it<br />
Feel tempted to unlock it & take a quick peep to see<br />
How much more of a husband it is than me. She had wanted<br />
Her own phone & was delighted when I gave her last year. &<br />
Since we’ve been married over thirty years, it seemed<br />
Like the right time for the gift of a smartphone. A compromise<br />
With the helpless inertia and intricate boredom of marriage<br />
<br />
But today I thought of my brother’s wife divorcing him<br />
For failure to strike rich or climb up high. Not smart<br />
Enough to function in her daily life, and much less useful<br />
Than a preprogramed device. How powerful the way a phone<br />
Stays more intimate with a human soul.<br />
<br />
My son is a senior<br />
Engineer at the Apple, where he spends every minute<br />
In front of a computer, trying to perfect a circuit for another<br />
iPhone to replace more husbandom (or wifedom)<br />
<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> But I just<br />
Cannot unlock it. Everything she wishes from me has now been<br />
Digitalized into this e.machine. With just a soft touch, she obtains<br />
All she needs from a partner that, though non-breathing, proves<br />
Far more attractive than any living soul beyond the virtual reality<br />
<br />
<br />
Tenancy<br />
<br />
Unlike the owner of a house who<br />
Remains plump as a well-fed pet<br />
Static as a loyal rock, accumulating<br />
As the calcium on a reef, I keep moving<br />
From one rented room to another<br />
<br />
Like a migratory bird, a seasonal wind<br />
Or a warm current in the sea, where I can<br />
Dump some of my pasts &<br />
Decorate my new residence with all the<br />
Furniture I can afford to get from the future<br />
<br />
<br />
Haplogroup Hypothesis: My Son Is Mine<br />
<br />
The relief I feel today is not my relief<br />
<br />
Maybe it’s my late father’s<br />
For a male descendant carrying exactly<br />
The same haplogroup as his son; i.e., for<br />
The biologic fact that he has a grandson<br />
To fulfill his filial duty as did Confucius<br />
<br />
The delight I feel today is actually everybody’s.<br />
Everybody is delighted because we are<br />
All offspring of the same DNA Adam<br />
If only we know how to trace back in the big tree<br />
<br />
Because as 23&Me’s reports show, we will survive<br />
Even if we continue fighting each other until<br />
The last one: then he will become the next DNA Adam<br />
<br />
For the past two decades I’ve had a hidden fear<br />
George may have been wrongly switched at birth<br />
As in a movie or the media, since he neither looks<br />
Nor acts like me at all, but his paternal haplogroup is<br />
O-PK4, consistent With Allen’s or mine (O-F838)<br />
<br />
The condolence I feel now is not my condolence<br />
Rather, it’s everyone’s in that there’ll be no problem<br />
<br />
For us to keep killing our own species, besides others<br />
<br />
<br />
They Believe They Are More Advanced<br />
<br />
In evolution, because they think<br />
In numerous complicate languages<br />
While we express ourselves just in<br />
Several simple short-syllabled songs<br />
<br />
They accumulate stones, graffiti &<br />
Other countless (in)visible items<br />
While we only pick up seeds<br />
Or hunt animals in the open<br />
<br />
They live on, for, & around money<br />
While we follow our hearts only<br />
<br />
They win their fucking rights<br />
Through face, clothing, money besides stories<br />
While we mate by dancing<br />
Or fighting instead<br />
<br />
They are busy trying to develop<br />
Themselves in every human or inhuman way<br />
While we don’t care if we are less<br />
Advanced in nature<br />
<br />
<br />
I Fly Across the Pacific<br />
<br />
Myriad clouds sit still in sun-rimmed shapes<br />
Watching us like so many bloated sphinxes<br />
<br />
As we pass through them with mechanic roars<br />
Each passes through our innermost horizons<br />
<br />
Cherishing sunlight in its soft heart<br />
& none seems to carry rain or anything else<br />
<br />
Darker than a human whim. God knows<br />
How many of them hold earthly dreams<br />
<br />
Like seasonal secrets. Similarly, most of<br />
My fellow passengers are still sleeping<br />
<br />
In these early hours; their postures as relaxing<br />
As restricted within their confinements, while<br />
<br />
A few were watching tv or reading on i-phones<br />
In hypnopomp, I opened a journal & it took me<br />
<br />
A moment to realize that a story is unfolding itself<br />
Though what it is really about I can never tell<br />
<br />
The main character has vanished into his own<br />
Consciousness & the setting is beginning to collapse<br />
<br />
No words are spoken. His soul becomes a migratory<br />
Bird flying to a higher realm of more still clouds<br />
<br />
<br />
On My Birthday & Off<br />
<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> I don’t remember how many years old<br />
I am, but I do care about my birthday, a time<br />
When I can imagine getting good wishes<br />
Or words. Rather than having a party<br />
With a big cheese cake or a bowl of longevity<br />
Noodles, I would prefer to leave home<br />
For a lonely walk in the country, wandering<br />
In a poetic wonderland<br />
<br />
Where I stop to reflect:<br />
For the past decade I have done what I could<br />
By way of a poem, but since it is unlikely I can<br />
Do anything with it, I find it the proper<br />
Occasion to write one last stanza just<br />
To commemorate my yearly visits to Quzhen<br />
Homerburgh, Dantefield, Shakespeareston<br />
Goethestadt, Pushkingrad, Baudelaireville<br />
Nerudastad, Frostdale, & Tagorerboro<br />
<br />
<br />
New Territory<br />
<br />
No two watches (or clocks) tell<br />
Exactly the same story/time<br />
But each difference offers an infinitesimal<br />
Crack inviting a lonely soul to enter<br />
Like a lost spot of sunbeam. Almost<br />
In no time<br />
I come<br />
I see<br />
I conquer<br />
All the new spaces deep in time<br />
<br />
<br />
Deep Learning<br />
<br />
Even when we were still chimpanzees, even<br />
When we are to become breathing robots<br />
We can always hope to enroll in Dream 101<br />
A prerequisite course for humanity<br />
(Not to be confused with ‘humanities’)<br />
Offered neither in the Egyptian hieroglyph<br />
Nor in the Chinese ideogram or<br />
The Greek alphabet, but in<br />
The colors of sunlight<br />
<br />
<br />
Wakened by stillness, I realized<br />
My dream’s been lost<br />
Among white noises<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
2018, 8, 30 [Thursday]<br />
<br />
Refracted Reflections (1): Inner Penetration<br />
<br />
Dripping, constantly<br />
Into the heart<br />
Of the rock<br />
Quietude splashes<br />
Over its whole being<br />
Inside out<br />
<br />
<br />
RR (2): Transporting<br />
<br />
Once the road begins<br />
To run forward<br />
The car can drop us off<br />
At any destination<br />
Beyond earthly traffic<br />
<br />
<br />
RR (3): Spiritual Freedom<br />
<br />
For every human soul, there is<br />
A whole patch<br />
Of sky (or heaven), where<br />
It can fly freely<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Only if it can find<br />
A taking-off position up there<br />
<br />
<br />
RR (4): Self-Discovery<br />
<br />
Unlike a handful of mud<br />
Shaped by Fate<br />
Like an urchin, each<br />
Of us is a rubber ball:<br />
The harder we hit<br />
Against a wall<br />
The higher we bounce<br />
<br />
<br />
RR (5): Return Trip<br />
<br />
Collecting our past footprints<br />
As does every lost soul<br />
We live a double life<br />
As if through<br />
A posthumous excursion<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
I Appreciate It: A Parallel Prose Poem<br />
<br />
I appreciate the roof, ceiling, wall, floor every window all the detailed structures of a room<br />
<br />
<br />
Two Saying Sonnets on Shadow<br />
<br />
1/ Sub-Selfhood<br />
<br />
Each self of yours<br />
Is nothing(ness)<br />
<br />
But a shadow. Depending on<br />
Whether there’s sunshine, or<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
Where the sun hangs<br />
Above the landscape, your shadow<br />
Keeps changing itself<br />
Within a shapeless shape<br />
<br />
Sometimes shorter, other times longer<br />
Always moving around your proto being<br />
Bloated against light<br />
<br />
Under the sun, the moon, or<br />
A lamp deep in the valley<br />
Of darkness surging towards dawn<br />
<br />
2/ Cast by a Light<br />
<br />
Hiding in a shadow<br />
You cannot complain<br />
<br />
Against the unfairness, or<br />
Injustice of the sunlight<br />
On a clear day<br />
<br />
Thoughts are the shadows<br />
Of our feelings – always<br />
<br />
Darker<br />
Emptier<br />
And simpler<br />
<br />
So, keep your face<br />
Ever<br />
Towards the sun, and<br />
Shadow<br />
Will fall behind you<br />
<br />
<br />
Hearing the Wind<br />
<br />
You left there in old age<br />
A snow ball off the slope<br />
<br />
Heard a bus to heaven (or to hell)<br />
<br />
Heard a field without any crop growing there<br />
Which may have been reserved for an alien growth<br />
<br />
Heard a young girl across the street<br />
Dancing around a crowd of robots getting newly old<br />
<br />
Heard a bomber taking off the New Foundland<br />
While frogs were singing a lost monody<br />
On the other side of the world at midnight<br />
<br />
Heard a key hit hard before a blinking screen<br />
& a naked body turning & twisting constantly on bed<br />
<br />
Heard a couple of blackbirds tangoing on a powerline<br />
& myriad leaves falling against autumn<br />
<br />
Heard an icicle beginning to melt under the afternoon sun<br />
Ready to shed tears in memory<br />
Of last storm:<br />
<br />
Shhh, my Lord, just let sounds<br />
Fill up my ears, and heart stealthily<br />
<br />
<br />
Accident<br />
<br />
Fiction hit<br />
The fact hard, and ran<br />
<br />
With truth per se<br />
Being the only witness<br />
<br />
<br />
No Internet, No Life<br />
<br />
Once off the line, the fish<br />
Would die of the hook<br />
Gnawing deep into the heart<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Truth<br />
<br />
The facts have buried themselves<br />
Deep in fiction, where<br />
History stands tall & straight<br />
Like a wordless tombstone<br />
<br />
<br />
Sonnet in Infinitives<br />
<br />
To be <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>a matter when there’s no question<br />
Or not to be <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>a question when nothing really matters<br />
<br />
To sing <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>with a frog squatting straight<br />
On a lotus leaf in the Honghu Lake<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> near Jingzhou<br />
<br />
To recollect <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>all the pasts, and mix them<br />
Together like a glass of <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>cocktail<br />
<br />
To build <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>a nest of meaning<br />
Between two broken branches on <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Ygdrasil<br />
<br />
To strive <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>for deity<br />
Longevity <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>and<br />
Even happiness<br />
<br />
To come <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>on and off line every other while<br />
<br />
To compress <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>consciousness into a file, and upload it<br />
Onto a nanochip. To be <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>daying, to <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>die<br />
<br />
<br />
In the Shadow of Socrates<br />
<br />
Someone tells me I look like Laozi<br />
It is the way my forehead protrudes<br />
Or maybe it is my eyes<br />
<br />
Someone mentions Socrates to me<br />
Though I am not interested in his maieutics<br />
Nor does he seem to care about my indifference<br />
<br />
Anyway, I remain as silent as Sphinx<br />
Or Laozi’s Dao which, once articulated<br />
In a human speech, would become totally lost<br />
<br />
Like truth<br />
Like wisdom<br />
Like any authentic knowledge<br />
<br />
While Socrates pursues his argument persistently<br />
I move my proto being far away<br />
From every shaped human<br />
<br />
He enjoys arguing<br />
I believe whatever is voiced<br />
Will get lost in void<br />
<br />
He upholds logic<br />
I uphold mythicism as someone tries to bring me<br />
Under the influence of the Greek syntax &<br />
<br />
Cast Socrates’s shadow on my thinning soul<br />
But I shy away farther to an unknown forest, where<br />
I will eventually die alone<br />
<br />
Like an old African elephant that does not want to<br />
Disturb the progression of<br />
A whole migratory family<br />
<br />
<br />
Snowing in Spring<br />
<br />
In the wild open west, flakes keep falling<br />
Like myriad baby angels knocked down from Paradise<br />
<br />
Blurring the landscape behind the vision<br />
Hunting each consonant trying to rise above<br />
<br />
The ground. The day is brighter, lighter &<br />
Softer than the feel. Soon there will be<br />
<br />
Dirty prints leading to everywhere (or nowhere)<br />
& no one will care how the whole world will collapse<br />
In blasphemy. The missing cat won’t come to<br />
Trespass the lawn, nor will the daffodil bloom<br />
<br />
To catch a flake drifting astray. Nobody bothers even to think<br />
About where the season is held up on its way back, how<br />
The fishes are agitating under the pressure of wintry<br />
Water, why people wish to see more and more snow<br />
<br />
<br />
The Past<br />
<br />
More than enough has been recollected<br />
About being in the past. It’s no time<br />
To be, yet except for a handful few, many<br />
Keep filling in the blanks of the present<br />
<br />
With the leftovers of the past, or catching<br />
The past from the present moment as if the present<br />
Were a tail of a vanishing fish rather than<br />
A rock from which the colt is running<br />
<br />
To the rising sun. Indeed, the trouble with<br />
The past is that it is deadly lost in the white pages<br />
Of history. Plus, even if the past can be edited, but never<br />
Be rewritten. So, let’s move to the future where<br />
<br />
The wise men want us to, where the pasts cannot<br />
Prevent us from surpassing the present<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<div>
<br /></div>
poetrypacific.blogspot.cahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14560551510300869695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7776455720328679430.post-61953788991375540442021-08-01T10:03:00.000-07:002021-08-01T10:03:03.605-07:00 Yuan's Last Letters to My First Love Just Released <p><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last Letters to My First Love</i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">is Yuan Changming's fifth book published this year as well as his last Chinese work ever written. In this non-fiction or autobiographical book, Yuan employes montage and what he calls 'diary-letter' as his basic narrative framework to recall and re-enact his rich life experiences starting as a Chinese village boy, who worked in a 'labor camp' after high school during the 'Cultural Revolution' and served as a college administrator before coming to Canada for his doctorate and becoming a prolific English author of poetry. For anyone interested in the lives of contemporary Chinese intellectuals and immigrants,</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last Letters to My First Love</i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">offers a highly relevant and representative read, which can be seen or even 'examined' as slices of a whole sociohistorical age. </span></p><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is the link to the electronic version of <i>Last Letters to My First Love</i>: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09BLSWF5C</div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>CALL FOR MS SUBMISSIONS:</b> Those who have poetry, fiction or non-fictional books to publish, please feel more than welcome to contact PP Press at editors.pp@gmail.com</div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8Vl7jh9AO-p7S3S7F9ZTK0Xscsi5W4n3XruQAkKFNCzeV8sk4Vgqvm6UUvkwouRBC0SrpGD_wVIGjdZpqLpo8NfR5nCfpLBeH255SfzEF4whBeRitdFSgnwVo0tftlcU1322S_ZdnkgI/s2048/unnamed.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8Vl7jh9AO-p7S3S7F9ZTK0Xscsi5W4n3XruQAkKFNCzeV8sk4Vgqvm6UUvkwouRBC0SrpGD_wVIGjdZpqLpo8NfR5nCfpLBeH255SfzEF4whBeRitdFSgnwVo0tftlcU1322S_ZdnkgI/w480-h640/unnamed.png" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div>poetrypacific.blogspot.cahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14560551510300869695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7776455720328679430.post-84881851556058705022021-07-11T11:33:00.003-07:002021-07-11T11:33:27.074-07:00Yuan's LIMERENCE Just Released!<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">LIMERENCE is Yuan Changming's tenth and newest poetry book. In this short collection, which includes 47 love poems written mostly over the past year or so, the author not only explores but articulates his innermost feeling about a Platonic relationship, a subject which chinese poetry authors have tended to avoid since ancient times. </span></p><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="7c85p" data-offset-key="7upkj-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7upkj-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="7upkj-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="7c85p" data-offset-key="7c85-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7c85-0-0" style="direction: ltr; 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position: relative;"><span class="py34i1dx" style="color: var(--blue-link); font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>Table of Contents</b></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: 宋体; mso-fareast-language: HI; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><br />
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">7 The Thought of You</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">8. Stream & Lake</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">9. In the Grove</span></span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">10. Valentine Gift</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">11. Action and Reaction</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">12. Chronometry</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">13. Oxymoron: Love Is A</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">14. Love Lines</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">15. Kharma: A Mega Romance</span><br />
<span lang="EN-CA" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">1</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">6. </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">You and Me</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: 宋体; mso-fareast-language: HI; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">17. The Tuner</span></span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">18. First Meeting after 42 Years Separation</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">19. At a Dinner Party, Songzi, 2019</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">20. Before, Before</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">21. Behemoth</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">22. The Unspeakable Spoken Out</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">23. Confession Delayed by Half a Century</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">24. Holistic Relationship</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">25. Cardioid Reviewed</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">26. Re: Posting</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">27. You Are Sure</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">28. ‘I Want to See You’</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">29. Emoji</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">30. Mamihlapinatapai</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">31. Yearning for You, I Reach out</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">32. Soulmating</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">33. The Lovebird</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">34. All Day Long</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">35. Qi Hong Tea</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">36. Vigiling</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">37. Unrequited
Love</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">38. Man’s Last Position in the Battlefield</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">39. Ways of Rejuvenating</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">40. Cohabitating</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">41. Quasi-Omnipotent
Lover</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">42. What
Softens</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">43. You
Have Never Had Enough of Love</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">44. Futuristic</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">45. Wooing</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">46. Missing
Moment</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">47. Craving</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">48. Star
& Butterfly</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">49. Love Dose: A Sensual Sonnet</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">50. Foreshadowing</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">51. How I Wanna</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">52. Screenshotting
by a Weixin/Wechat Monitor: An Apolitical Poem</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">53. Each
Time</span><br />
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<br /><br />4. on 27 april, PP Press released via kindle (traditional chinese) my first and only poetry collection in chinese <i>Selected Poems of Yuan Changming </i>《袁昌明诗选》 at https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B092TRSGXM/ref=cm_r_oth_apl_glt_NSVBPJ22VYQKBS9G4; <br /><br />5. on june 11, the results of canada's 44th national magazine awards were officially released, meaning that my work as a juror was formally completed, while all the background information on the jury released at the same time https://magazine-awards.com/en/2021/05/04/2021-national-magazine-awards-jury/;</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">6. on 16 jun, PP decided to publish via kindle (traditional chinese) dr Li Gongbo's book <i>Nonsense</i> 《胡说八道》by the end of october, which is a collection of mini essays about ways of thinking, as well as about the spiritual cultivation;<br /><br />7. for the past couple of years, i have written 38 love poems, about half of which have appeared or are forthcoming in english journals. this is poetic breakthrough on a personal level, since i had been simply unable to write such poetry before the pandemic began in my native province towards the end of 2019, when i met my 'first love' (rather than for my 'first date') for the first time after 42 years of separation without knowing each other's whereabouts. needless to say, all these poems are inspired or written for her.</span></p>poetrypacific.blogspot.cahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14560551510300869695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7776455720328679430.post-81600601407991553642021-04-27T08:02:00.011-07:002021-04-27T18:46:51.234-07:00《袁昌明詩選》 Just Released <p>Changming's 1st full-length Chinese poetry collection<span face="新宋体" style="font-size: 14pt;">《</span><b><span face="仿宋" lang="HI">袁昌明詩選</span></b><span face="新宋体" style="font-size: 14pt;">》</span><span face="新宋体" style="font-size: 14pt;">(</span><i> Selected Poems of Yuan Changming</i>)<b><span face="仿宋" lang="HI" style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 仿宋; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-language: HI;"> </span></b>has been formally release today and become readily availabe as an ebook or kindle edition:</p><div class="gs" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; width: 884px;"><div class=""><div class="ii gt" id=":144" style="direction: ltr; font-size: 0.875rem; margin: 8px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="a3s aiL " id=":143" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.5; overflow: hidden;"><div dir="ltr"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B092TRSGXM/ref%3Dcm_r_oth_apl_glt_NSVBPJ22VYQKBS9G4&source=gmail&ust=1619660085577000&usg=AFQjCNGosiHAn8f8YZ259Oz6ad0rZHs2ow" href="https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B092TRSGXM/ref=cm_r_oth_apl_glt_NSVBPJ22VYQKBS9G4" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.ca/dp/<wbr></wbr>B092TRSGXM/ref=cm_r_oth_apl_<wbr></wbr>glt_NSVBPJ22VYQKBS9G4</a><div class="yj6qo"></div><div class="adL"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.amazon.com/dp/B092TRSGXM?ref_%3Dpe_3052080_397670860&source=gmail&ust=1619622187459000&usg=AFQjCNHuCr9UP1ZjUvzmy3Ac12dvazu5ug" href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B092TRSGXM?ref_=pe_3052080_397670860" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/dp/<wbr></wbr>B092TRSGXM?ref_=pe_3052080_<wbr></wbr>397670860</a><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: small;"> </span></div></div></div></div></div></div><p> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLWFN1aXzTbGjl97mwYH4tPWYUOpqQzBldMTcP7W6m3oQHhjTL9m-jK0efeCwQ3iI6zYUCFTu75o7Js-RT2u1lXkR5YXapwtqsq2OSs1lBUU7L3KX1_Zh74EpPjNtvk4djDVCswE_tjSk/s947/1.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="947" data-original-width="710" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLWFN1aXzTbGjl97mwYH4tPWYUOpqQzBldMTcP7W6m3oQHhjTL9m-jK0efeCwQ3iI6zYUCFTu75o7Js-RT2u1lXkR5YXapwtqsq2OSs1lBUU7L3KX1_Zh74EpPjNtvk4djDVCswE_tjSk/w480-h640/1.png" width="480" /></a></p><br /><p>published by vancouver-based Poetry Pacific Press, <span face="新宋体" style="font-size: 14pt;">《</span><b><span face="仿宋" lang="HI">袁昌明詩選</span></b><span face="新宋体" style="font-size: 14pt;">》(</span><i> Selected Poems of Yuan Changming</i>), which consists of 120 poems, is the author's first full-lenght poetry collection in chinese. covering a wide range of subject matters and a whole spectrum of forms and styles, including such as haiku, free sonnet, siamese stanzas,bilinguacultural poem and one-act poem, this book samples Yuan's 'best' poems written between 2005 and 2020. while most of the pieces were orginally written and published in english, some of them have appeared in 'best' poetry anthologies, and others have won or been nominated for various poetry prizes. translated into chinese by the author himself, this collection offers an important and intriguing window to see the differences between contemporary english and chinese poeticses. </p>poetrypacific.blogspot.cahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14560551510300869695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7776455720328679430.post-5639016348825347222021-04-22T11:55:00.003-07:002021-04-22T11:55:28.923-07:00My Chinese Concerns (《憂華集》) Released Today<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>My Chinese Concerns </i>(《憂華集》) Released Today</span></p><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Published by Poetry Pacific Press, my first non-fiction Chinese book My Chinese Concerns (《憂華集》) has just been released today as an e.book via Kindle here at: </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl py34i1dx gpro0wi8" href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09348KQG5?fbclid=IwAR3by3ey2sCzPsWo-CQjgnwusvhms111LQKP_YZMTYgvCIzxlW5jILPlyXw" rel="nofollow noopener" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Consisting of 378 'flash' blogessays, this collection is mainly about the 'chineseness'. From a sociahistorical point of view, each flash essay discusses a specific aspect of being a Chinese or Chinese culture. Anyone hoping to gain a deep insight into, or an inside look at 'Chinese Cultural Personality' would find it a highly interesting and even helpful read!</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiloLs0HliziPWyYWXdXdUQ4f-9Q9RXmaET9tchzoxrQ_65_-UnSulj0BCFaf5HeIZXXXY_gwWS6MfCB_eWX-OeKqJfFsUlWV4C9zcR9cVYzCQRI261GLTiFTufLkm5v1MBkntl6ZPNZD4/s2048/unnamed.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiloLs0HliziPWyYWXdXdUQ4f-9Q9RXmaET9tchzoxrQ_65_-UnSulj0BCFaf5HeIZXXXY_gwWS6MfCB_eWX-OeKqJfFsUlWV4C9zcR9cVYzCQRI261GLTiFTufLkm5v1MBkntl6ZPNZD4/w480-h640/unnamed.png" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div></div>poetrypacific.blogspot.cahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14560551510300869695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7776455720328679430.post-34824049920893622842021-03-31T09:45:00.011-07:002021-04-01T10:22:49.930-07:00PP Back with First Chinese Book Released Today<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">So, we here at Poetry Pacific Press are back after more than four years on hiatus, and even before the pandemic is gone...</span></p><div data-block="true" data-editor="449mj" data-offset-key="7c3qf-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7c3qf-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="7c3qf-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="449mj" data-offset-key="3jmss-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3jmss-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="3jmss-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Today we have our very first all-chinese book (kindle edition) officially released on amazon here:</span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="449mj" data-offset-key="3r21m-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3r21m-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="3r21m-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="449mj" data-offset-key="490c8-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="490c8-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span class="py34i1dx" color="var(--blue-link)" style="font-family: inherit;">https://www.amazon.ca/-/fr/%E5%8A%89-%E7%91%9C-ebook/dp/B08ZJS7SHG/ref=zg_bsnr_935038_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=HKW8JQPWTZJZ02FVKQ5X</span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="449mj" data-offset-key="d40v-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="d40v-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="d40v-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="449mj" data-offset-key="495b9-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="495b9-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="495b9-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">basic information:</span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="449mj" data-offset-key="23utm-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="23utm-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="23utm-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="449mj" data-offset-key="2cnn4-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2cnn4-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="2cnn4-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><b>book title</b>: Ordinary Life, Ordinary Story 《平凡人生,平凡故事〉</span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="449mj" data-offset-key="cd5qv-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="cd5qv-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="cd5qv-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><b>author/narrator:</b> LIU, Yu 刘瑜</span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="449mj" data-offset-key="devkk-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="devkk-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="devkk-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><b>character count:</b> 48,000 chinese characters</span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="449mj" data-offset-key="f95d9-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="f95d9-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="f95d9-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><b>number of pages</b>: 81 with about a donzen photos</span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="449mj" data-offset-key="9u0pn-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9u0pn-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="9u0pn-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><b>brief description:</b> in a vivid chinese vernacular, with accurate narrative details, Liu recalls how she grew up as an adopted girl to an extremely impoverished family in an isolated village in Hubuei Province, left her parents without their knowing beforehand for a government job at age 15, and became a 'model' mid-level communist official before retirement. To celebrate her 80th birthday, Liu gives this book or memoire to herself as her best birthday gift. </span></div></div>poetrypacific.blogspot.cahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14560551510300869695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7776455720328679430.post-25349985280424259472021-03-02T10:55:00.008-08:002021-03-21T18:48:45.136-07:00yuan's lit endeavours: 2 mar 21<p> 1. got 11 acceptances in jan, and 19 in feb.</p>2. some chinese poems published in taiwan's Autumn Water《秋水诗刊》, and 12 in huaxinshe: wall street journal 《华新社华尔街报》: link:: http://wst.nyc/index.php/zh/%E6%95%A3%E6%96%87%E8%AF%97%E6%AD%8C/%E8%A2%81%E6%98%8C%E6%98%8E%E8%AF%97%E9%80%89<br /><br />3. completed Love Letters from Vancouver (part II) between 27 dec 2020 and 27 jan 2021. as long as 110,000 chinese characters, the work is composed of 17 letters, as in the first part. since the addressee has some serious concerns, i am not going to post it openly as i did the first part about 8 years ago. but before my death, i will probably self-publish it in a book form, as a record or memoire of my life as well as the way i examine it and hopefully make it 'worthwhile.' <br /><br />4. on feb 4, and 11, attended a english class held for the toyon literary magazine staff-students, as a special guest and translator. this is a really rewarding experience, not only in terms of money, but more importantly in light of what i have learned. first time to return to an english class in university since i finished my coursework in 1994.<br /><br />5. on feb 22, received an email from national media foundation, inviting me to be one of the three judges of the 44th national magazine awards (best poetry category). given the great honour, this is really a big happy surprise. as of today, i have completed exactly half of the job; the results will be released sometime in april. <br /><br />6. on feb 25, invited by poetry in voice, to write a 'one liner', and 'dive-in' ( a group of questions about a pariticular poem). i have chosen wang xiaoni's 'i feel the sun', and even finished drafting everything. i selected this poem simply because i wrote something similar long before i knew of her.<p><br /></p><p><br /></p>poetrypacific.blogspot.cahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14560551510300869695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7776455720328679430.post-37966836556848837362021-01-02T10:47:00.076-08:002021-01-03T07:55:40.566-08:00yuan: lit endeavours -2jan2021<p> 1. got 18 acceptances in october, 17 in november, & 12 in december last year by various kinds of literary outlets, including such as <i>belief anthology, fortnightly review, maryland lit rev, review americana </i>and <i>the pinch journal. </i> </p>2. in october, <i>Sound of USA</i> <span>[<span color="rgba(34, 34, 34, 0.8)" face="Raleway, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: -0.96px; outline: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.soundofusa.com/" rel="home" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(34, 34, 34, 0.8); font-family: Raleway, sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.96px; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">美洲文化之声 国际传媒网</a>]</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span>published 7 of my chinese poems (again) at <div>http://www.soundofusa.com/%E9%9B%AA%E8%8A%B1-%E8%A2%81%E6%98%8C%E6%98%8E-%EF%BC%88%E5%8A%A0%E6%8B%BF%E5%A4%A7%EF%BC%89/; in novermber, <span>《麒麟诗刊》</span>accepted (and published on 1 jan 2021) two of my chinese poems; moreover, three weixin or wechat jounrals, namely <span>《<span style="background-color: white; color: #c3190d; font-family: Alegreya, serif;">海外文学</span>》<span style="background-color: white; color: #c3190d; font-family: Alegreya, serif;">、《北极星新文学》</span>& 《华文现代诗》</span>, each featured a number of my chinese poems. </div><div><br /></div><div>3. in october, finished translating into english zhang xinyue's chinese book <span style="font-size: x-small;">《心灵成长:丰盛篇〉</span>, which is probably my last paid intelectual work, to be published shortly in china.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">4. on 20 october, won the "wordview 2020" prize for reading my poem 'standing still against the pandemic,' given by <i>poetry archive now</i> [https://poetryarchive.org/poem/wordview-2020-standing-still-against-the-pandemic/].</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">5. in november, finished proofreading the e.galley of my nineth chapbook, to be published soon by a california-based press.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">6. on 11 december, received notificatin from <i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px;">DMQ Review</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px;"> aabout their official nomination of my poem, “Native Landscaping,” for an annual Pushcart Prize. this is the 11th time for me to be nominated for the same prize. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">7. in december, finished proofreading my mom's memoirs titled <span>《<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal; text-align: center;"><span face="宋体" lang="ZH-CN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">平凡人生,</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal; text-align: center;"><span lang="ZH-CN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;"> </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal; text-align: center;"><span face="宋体" lang="ZH-CN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">平凡故事》</span></b><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span>('an ordinary life, an ordinary story,' roughly about 23,700 character-long), which were far better narrated/written than i have anticipated; some sentences are even poetic! i am to post it both here and on my chinese site, to celebrate her 80th birthday in a couple of weeks.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">8. on 27 december, inspired to resume writing my only chinese non-fiction book <span><b>《<span face="黑体" style="text-align: center;">温哥华情笺</span>》</b></span>called (<i>Letters from Vancouver</i>), a 176,000 character-long book of memoires, which i wrote and never meant to continue after putting down my pen 20 years ago. orginally intended to be a quite ambitious literary project, the book has been written in a highly experimental hybrid style (or what i call 'epistolary-diary'). all thanks to a female highschoolmate who laboured together with me on a forest farm by the yangtse river for more than 2 years while receiving 're-education' between 1974 and 1977 during the cultural revolution, i hit upon the idea of taking up the pen again on the morning. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">9. ever since i began to write poetry in english in late 2004, i have found i have two creative weaknesses: one is my failure to write (especially longer) narrative poems -- to me, that subgenre is not for poetry authors, but for story tellers); the other is my inability to write love poems, probably because i am too old for this subgenre or have too little inspiring experience of it. nevertheless, in the past year, i have surprisingly written 12 pieces in english, and 7 in chinese, all for one chinese senior. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">a lot has been going on, and i hope to keep writing...</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>poetrypacific.blogspot.cahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14560551510300869695noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7776455720328679430.post-82892332909394103402020-10-01T08:16:00.027-07:002020-10-02T12:28:03.461-07:00changming: lit endeavors - oct 1<p> 1. got 21 acceptances in july, 16 in august, & 14 in september, including such as <i>australian poetry journal, los angeles review of los angeles, slyce, canadian lit, poetry archive now!, windsor review, hitchlit review </i>and <i>cabalt review.</i> </p>2. in july, <i>Sound of USA</i> [<span color="rgba(34, 34, 34, 0.8)" face="Raleway, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: -0.96px; outline: 0px; text-align: center; text-decoration-line: none;"><a href="http://www.soundofusa.com/" rel="home" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(34, 34, 34, 0.8); font-family: Raleway, sans-serif; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: -0.96px; outline: 0px; text-align: center; text-decoration-line: none;">美洲文化之声 国际传媒网</a>]</span> published 4 of my chinese poems at http://www.soundofusa.com/%E8%BF%81%E5%BE%99-%E8%A2%81%E6%98%8C%E6%98%8E%EF%BC%88%E5%8A%A0%E6%8B%BF%E5%A4%A7%EF%BC%89/. in mid-sept, <i>WePoetry</i> <span style="background-color: white; color: #c3190d; font-family: Alegreya, serif; font-size: small;">【海外詩粹】</span>featured 14 of my selected poems in both engish and chinese at https://wepoetry.com/yuan-changming-selected-poems-thought-hunting/. much to my delight, i have recently had as many as ten poems showcased in the highly prestigious hk-based (translation) journal <i>Renditions </i><b><span>[译丛]</span></b>, which is believed to be the main window to take a look at the supposedly 'best' chinese literary works. <div><br /></div><div>although another two mainland-based chinese online journals published my chinese poems, they later removed my work from their sites because it failed to be voted/selected for inclusion in their paper-based versions. no matter how i have tried, my poems, either written originally in chinese or translated (from my best accepted english ones) into chinese, are not appreciated at all by chinese editors as a rule. this fact sometimes makes me feel no longer confident about my writings in chinese. while i have been wondering about why editors/magazines based in mainland china never like my chinese poems, i find it quite comforting that my chinese poems have been published in first-rate chinese magazines based in hong kong, taiwan, singapore, macau as well as other parts of the world. <div><br /></div><div>3. accepted the offer from a california-based press to publish my 9th chapbook, tentatively titled 'whale's whispers', later next spring. <br /><br />4. still waiting for a highly possible contracted translation job: 3 books, now reduced to 1, to be translated from chinese into english by the end of this year, which will be published not by my press this time, but by their followers at minimum cost early next year. nevertheless, i doubt they (the create abundance group, now known as golden touch) are serious enough: for the past 3 to 4 years, they have 'hooked' me up with 4 different literary projects, but after i went through much trouble and even finished the preparatory stages, they simply gave me no follow-ups. </div><div><br /></div><div>i often feel very very lousy about how 'bad' some people in the literary circle can be, in both the english and chinese speaking worlds. </div></div>poetrypacific.blogspot.cahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14560551510300869695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7776455720328679430.post-23330676569690874592020-07-11T10:42:00.000-07:002020-07-11T10:42:17.986-07:00[archived poems by yuan: 2018-1©]2018, 7, 16 [monday]<br />
<br />
A Happy Life<br />
<br />
Is, perforce<br />
A healthy and<br />
Heartfelt one from which<br />
You have long since learned<br />
<br />
To make light of the darkest<br />
<br />
Present moment while<br />
Anticipating another nice surprise<br />
Falling upon you<br />
Anytime tomorrow<br />
<br />
<br />
Flappy Mephlapperson<br />
<br />
Like that tracking device<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Tied on your fluffy back is my soul<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>A chip implanted deep<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Into yours. What keeps us<br />
Migrating from country to country<br />
Without a passport, from day to day<br />
Without a visa is our integrated soul<br />
Trying to find its way to our ultimate home<br />
In the outer space beyond our cuckooish reality<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
In the outer space beyond our cuckooish reality<br />
Trying to find its wat to our ultimate home<br />
Without a visa is our integrated soul<br />
Without a passport, from day to day<br />
Migrating from country to country<br />
Into yours. What keeps us<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Is a chip implanted deep<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Tied on your fluffy back is my soul<br />
Like that tracking device<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
The Higher the Climb, the Harder the Fall<br />
<br />
Elevated far<br />
Higher up<br />
Above the tallest god<br />
In the ninth sky<br />
<br />
Our mind has now finally began to fall<br />
<br />
Falling low<br />
So much lower<br />
Even than our body<br />
On earth<br />
<br />
<br />
Sub-Selfhood<br />
<br />
Containing all our<br />
Genetics, spiritual and<br />
Physiological, each cell is<br />
A self in its own right, and<br />
<br />
Has an independent<br />
<br />
Lifespan, nurtured with plenty of<br />
Earthly elements. Each of us is a unity<br />
Of as many selves as countless cells, as<br />
Illustrated in a textbook of cellular biology<br />
<br />
<br />
Nesting<br />
<br />
With withered grasses from epics<br />
Sticks from philosophy<br />
Feathers from contemporary art<br />
<br />
We are all busy building nests of meaning<br />
So our souls could settle there<br />
High up as if on Ygdrasil<br />
<br />
<br />
At the Earthset<br />
<br />
As the Earth sets<br />
Concurrently<br />
With all its satellites<br />
Its bluish reflections are dispersed<br />
Into the darkness of light<br />
<br />
And so is every colony<br />
Of human civilization<br />
<br />
Self-Healing<br />
<br />
Every wound heals in time<br />
But I keep mine always open<br />
Not because I fear the scar<br />
<br />
But because my soul needs<br />
To get some sunlight<br />
Especially on a rainy day<br />
<br />
<br />
Metaphor Updated<br />
<br />
Each poem is a cyber space<br />
Full of informative possibilities<br />
Non-linear, irrational<br />
Ready to overwhelm one<br />
With spontaneous overflows of<br />
Unidentifiable consciousness<br />
<br />
<br />
Tangent<br />
<br />
A comet<br />
Striking across the earth<br />
On a starry midsummer night<br />
<br />
A whim<br />
Flying from a human mind<br />
Bent low in seasonal insomnia<br />
<br />
Houyi’s arrow<br />
Shooting towards the sun<br />
From the bank of the Wei River, while<br />
<br />
Some clouds<br />
Sailing right above the moon<br />
Like snow geese migrating over the artic<br />
<br />
<br />
Two Halves Make More Than One<br />
<br />
Half angel and half demon<br />
Make more than a woman<br />
<br />
Half gentleman and half animal<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Make more than a man<br />
<br />
Half giving and half gaining<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Make more than a family<br />
<br />
Half feeling and half ignorance<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Make more than a happy life<br />
<br />
Half wake and half dream<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Make more than a lifetime<br />
<br />
<br />
Soliloquy on Being Solitary<br />
<br />
What a soul<br />
You’ve got!:<br />
<br />
Handsome<br />
Hard-fated<br />
High-spirited<br />
Hardworking<br />
<br />
But have you found<br />
Your other half yet?<br />
<br />
God knows I just cannot<br />
Even someone<br />
To think of, let alone a mate<br />
To share my pasts or futures<br />
<br />
<br />
Epiphany on Meaning<br />
<br />
Oftentimes I find meaning has long been exhausted<br />
But once I spotted a human construction site which,<br />
<br />
Abandoned near a mountain, has become a natural<br />
Monument. Vines crawling rampantly everywhere<br />
<br />
As if from written literature. Birds try to colonize<br />
The area by building nests with as many sticks, feathers and<br />
<br />
Grasses as forlorn words. At the centre is a blood-colored<br />
Pool of water, full of rotten corpses of white snow geese<br />
<br />
Far away, almost on the other side of the world is<br />
A tremendous iceberg of plastics growing every second<br />
<br />
To form the largest continent on earth. Had each<br />
Dinosaur been a bloated meme, it would have evolved<br />
<br />
Into a complete statement of politics, either today<br />
Or tomorrow. Like the mind, like the poem<br />
<br />
<br />
On a Scale from 0 to 10<br />
<br />
Do you think you can attain happiness?<br />
<br />
To which degree do you know, respect and love yourself?<br />
<br />
Do you agree your pain, disappointment and failure do exist?<br />
<br />
How important is meaning to you?<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Xmas<br />
<br />
In my quiet winter block, snow is falling<br />
To cover every footprint, smoothing every sharp corner<br />
Wrapping every skeletal plant, but the walled air<br />
<br />
Is thickening with loud sounds. Head feels<br />
Hollow. Even hollower is my rented room<br />
Watching the cold flame burning artificially<br />
<br />
In the fireplace, I find no one to talk to<br />
Even to think of. Most people I know have<br />
All vanished. Too much attachment is<br />
<br />
Too hard for me. I seem to hear echoes of<br />
Holiday greetings from unknown sources<br />
Opening the fridge, I hesitate a long time<br />
<br />
About what to heat for my last supper. Yes<br />
As a cockroach crawls as fast as light itself<br />
I am ready to say farewell to you, dear all<br />
<br />
<br />
Quiescence<br />
<br />
Elsewhere bears charge downhill<br />
Trampling crops in the fields. How<br />
They dance and destroy wildly<br />
In the shadow of a crisis<br />
On the headlines seems as if to<br />
Strike<br />
Into my heart some unknown terror<br />
Capitualation. In fact, I watch<br />
You vacuuming the carpet when<br />
A few tiny ants are sucked in<br />
Around your feet, how you paid<br />
No attention to them there, and<br />
Perhaps<br />
I hoped to forget the connection<br />
Between the market and the carpet<br />
In the muted rhythm of a vacuum<br />
And wanted it this way<br />
Though only in imagination<br />
<br />
<br />
Like Father, Unlike Daughter<br />
<br />
A lost and found photo of George’s as a toddler<br />
Shows Kate has picked up more genes from him<br />
Than from his wife (or, his almost 100%<br />
Chinese genes are stronger than her 70%<br />
Korean ones). However, Kate is not like<br />
Her father, who began to speak, both articulately<br />
And meaningfully, around age one, while she,<br />
Conceived and born deep in Sillicon Valley<br />
Is so confused like an unstable form of AI<br />
Her innermost chip does not know which<br />
Syllables to pick up at home. Perhaps only<br />
When she grows old enough for preschool<br />
Will she be able to follow a systematic trend<br />
And become a subject of the Empire of English?<br />
<br />
<br />
Platonic Parody<br />
<br />
When light finally penetrates the cave<br />
With myriad quanta of enlightenment, are<br />
The shadows actually the artificial projections<br />
Of darkness on the wall, or the congenital<br />
Deformities of our own vision in the mind?<br />
<br />
Were light a liquid or something else, it may<br />
Splash all over us according to the law<br />
Of spiritual physics, but for now, we are all<br />
Entangled with words, or ideas of idea on earth<br />
<br />
<br />
How Transience Trespasses<br />
<br />
The tender reach of snowflakes<br />
Kissing the landscape with their entire<br />
Bodies – what were left of their hearts<br />
<br />
They embrace each sound<br />
With a crystalized melody from above<br />
In a way they fly with my thought<br />
But also embrace my voice<br />
<br />
However, the season<br />
Will forget us, and<br />
Do so all in wet, far beyond<br />
A dying vision. Feel sorry<br />
<br />
For me?<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
2018, 5, 10 [Thursday]<br />
<br />
Backwards Day<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>While walking backwards as a physical therapy for my back, I sometimes hear people say…<br />
<br />
Impressive!<br />
Good exercise!<br />
Remind you are walking backwards!<br />
What’s this for?<br />
<br />
New trend, eh?<br />
Watch out!<br />
On your right!<br />
Happy backwards day!<br />
<br />
Sorry, my dog gets confused!<br />
[But I am sure where I am going]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
You Stay, I Go<br />
<br />
Time is the only locale<br />
Permanently set in the middle of<br />
Cosmic consciousness<br />
<br />
A vast invisible rock<br />
Sitting right there in stillness<br />
While each of us passes by<br />
<br />
<br />
Essence of Life<br />
<br />
All the pasts are just memory<br />
All the futures are but imagination<br />
<br />
Except the present moment<br />
The true concurrent story<br />
<br />
The only reality that is taking place outside<br />
Your body to fill in the blank in your mind<br />
<br />
<br />
The Car Running on the Freeway<br />
<br />
The rear mirror is so much smaller<br />
Because what has already passed is<br />
Never going to be a traffic hazard<br />
<br />
But the wind shield must perforce<br />
Be wide and large enough to look ahead<br />
Far into the destination of future<br />
<br />
Whereas the views on the two sides<br />
Are as irrelevant to the driver<br />
As the stars and clouds in the sky<br />
<br />
<br />
Dog vs Horse<br />
<br />
To live a happy life<br />
Is to tame a horse<br />
By constantly accommodating it<br />
<br />
Rather than to imitate a dog<br />
Running around, eager<br />
To please its master<br />
<br />
<br />
Rocket Diameter and Horse Butt<br />
<br />
The width of a horse butt<br />
Determined that of a roman<br />
Chariot, which in turn determined<br />
The standard distance<br />
<br />
Between two rails, which again<br />
Determined the width of a tunnel, which has<br />
Ever since determined the diameter of a rocket<br />
For a space shuttle just newly determined, which<br />
<br />
<br />
All Roads Lead to Your Innerself<br />
<br />
Unlike Narcissus getting himself drowned<br />
While lost in his own beauty reflected in the water<br />
You will live happily ever after, once<br />
<br />
You put aside your clothes, masks, shadows<br />
And your reflections, shake off your pretentiousness<br />
Forget your other half, your children, your car<br />
<br />
Your house, but just stop to stay still, accept the flowers<br />
Your inner being collects for you on the Valentine’s<br />
Day, and falls in love with your most authentic selfhood<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Hide & Seek<br />
<br />
Just a few decades before<br />
They all hid their souls behind<br />
Printed words, between fading lines<br />
Beyond the margins of memories<br />
Seeking them turned out more a matter<br />
Of death than an enjoyable game<br />
<br />
Now they’ve resurrected in the cyberspace<br />
Their bodies reappearing on the stage<br />
As a virtual reality, their inner beings surfing<br />
Along a new surge of adrenaline, while my selfhood<br />
Gets drowned in a swirl as the dead observe me<br />
Lingering on at the edge of a black hole<br />
<br />
<br />
lonely<br />
<br />
Is more than one word, where (or<br />
When) ‘one’ is sandwiched<br />
<br />
Between two wall-like ‘l’s<br />
<br />
Driven (or followed)<br />
By a vowel of reason<br />
<br />
<br />
The Tourist<br />
<br />
Is a postman of last century<br />
Visiting one household after another<br />
Trying to deliver a message enveloped<br />
At each threshold<br />
<br />
<br />
Soiling<br />
<br />
Those birds are pecking deep<br />
Into my front yard, beaking out<br />
Each worm, enjoying their delicious<br />
Intake – they are so happy<br />
<br />
I wanted to be one of them<br />
Even if it’s only in my fantasy<br />
<br />
From behind the window, I found<br />
No human disturbance outside, except<br />
The peaceful lawn being destroyed<br />
As if by an alien fleet of bombers<br />
<br />
<br />
My Son’s Voice<br />
<br />
Ever since my son became a father<br />
In his own right, his voice seems to<br />
Have broken again: rather than look<br />
At me with his whites, turn a deaf ear<br />
To me, ready to jump away from my<br />
Presence as if his tail were trodden<br />
Breathe in and out deliberately aloud<br />
Give me an ugly face, he now speaks<br />
In a more controlled tone, which sounds<br />
Lower, softer, even tenderer. I know how<br />
It has taken a whole fatherhood for me to<br />
Speak like this to my father, who is now<br />
No longer able to hear, no matter how loud<br />
I yell or sing towards his otherworldly ears<br />
<br />
<br />
The Collaboration<br />
<br />
Whether made of wood, bamboo<br />
Or metal, we go intimately<br />
Like a pair of chopsticks<br />
<br />
Together we pick up<br />
A slippery dumpling, or throw away<br />
A leaf far from fresh<br />
<br />
Sometimes in a parallel position, other<br />
Times with a slight angle between, but<br />
Always working together in duo<br />
<br />
To taste every dish<br />
On the one and<br />
The same table<br />
<br />
<br />
Blue Hour<br />
<br />
In the blue hour the words<br />
Become more and more clear (or<br />
Blurry, invisible until lost in full<br />
Darkness, (or glaring in morning glows<br />
<br />
Depending on the beginning), or<br />
The ending of the day), you can squeeze<br />
Meaning out of the damp pages, so meaning<br />
Gathers, (trickling into the pool of consciousness<br />
<br />
(In the blue hour, the light is getting weaker)<br />
Just when I come to understand what’s<br />
Behind the words), what’s between<br />
Dawn and dust<br />
<br />
<br />
Rocky Calls<br />
<br />
Far away. Everyone<br />
Yells aloud: go and<br />
<br />
They burst out of their own presence<br />
Like the air from a broken balloon<br />
<br />
While I get stuck here, lost<br />
Among muted consonants<br />
<br />
<br />
Transplanting<br />
<br />
On a robust trunk<br />
From the roots of the same apple tree<br />
I reach out my yellowish branch<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Full of peach blossoms<br />
<br />
I am not a grotesque, but a GMO<br />
Like a chip embedded deep<br />
Within my bloated brain<br />
<br />
<br />
EX<br />
<br />
While sorting out relics in the little attic<br />
Of his heart, I happened to see a letter<br />
Written in red, which I recognised to be<br />
The handwriting of his first girl friend<br />
<br />
Part of him has never been living with me<br />
The most precious relic of his early manhood<br />
That has changed his daily habits, for instance<br />
He never share a pear with me<br />
<br />
<br />
Man Is the Only Animal<br />
That Blushes. Or Needs To. – Mark Twain<br />
<br />
Or that can remain on friendly terms, says Samuel<br />
Butler, with the victims he intends to eat until he<br />
Eats them; that shows interest in the sex lives of<br />
<br />
Other animals; that is able to invent a story and<br />
Spread it over time and space; that insists on its<br />
Uniqueness, superiority and omniscience; that<br />
<br />
Refrains from farting or fucking in the wild open; that<br />
Tries to live not only in the moment, but also among<br />
The pasts and futures; that is capable of making medicines<br />
<br />
Machines and machinations; that can readily convert<br />
Himself from one ism to another; that enjoys playing<br />
Words along this line as Nelson in his ‘Funny Bird Sex.’<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Painting Lesson<br />
<br />
Were I a student of art<br />
I would paint an image<br />
<br />
A surreal vision. Were<br />
I a student of art<br />
<br />
I would portray emotions<br />
Like melancholy, like ecstasy<br />
<br />
Returning to my home among shapes<br />
Colors and lines as in nature<br />
<br />
I would keep this picture with<br />
Hundreds of strokes on the canvas<br />
<br />
Between two lakes<br />
Beyond a whole mountain range<br />
<br />
Today, everyone<br />
Seems to want to take a look<br />
<br />
I have not finished it as an oil<br />
Painting or Chinese water color<br />
<br />
It’s not nostalgia<br />
The kind you feel when you are home.<br />
<br />
<br />
Before Birth<br />
<br />
Deep into your mother’s mouth<br />
I put a rosy chocolate of vowels<br />
<br />
Coated with a film of consciousness<br />
I’d hoped these sounds would melt<br />
<br />
Into a sweet melody, and each beat<br />
Of your heart resonates, singing<br />
<br />
Then independently we depend<br />
On each other’s unheard notes<br />
<br />
Until you grow to be a loud cry<br />
While my voice dwindles<br />
<br />
Into a muted murmur, like those<br />
Consonants audible only to the dead<br />
<br />
<br />
Frog, Yangsheng and Weixin/WeChat<br />
<br />
I was video-chatting with my mom<br />
On my iPad when I heard a loud call<br />
<br />
From a handsome frog. Not to disturb<br />
My night owl son still busy dreaming<br />
<br />
Against noon light, I locked myself out<br />
In the balcony. Remember to eat an egg<br />
<br />
A banana, an apple, some black fungus every day<br />
Small fish better than meat. Shrimps help more<br />
<br />
Like those a frog could catch on a summer night<br />
But my mother neither saw nor heard any frog<br />
<br />
Which I imagined jumping around in a rice paddy<br />
On the other side of the world. It was the song<br />
<br />
Of nostalgia squatting high at the threshold of<br />
My throat, ready to call like an unseen frog<br />
<br />
<br />
Iambic Maxim Pentameter<br />
<br />
That it alone is high fantastical<br />
Your force to break, blow, burn and make me new<br />
That with no middle flight intends to soar<br />
<br />
The moment became the roundest just before it grows full<br />
Life is a fish swimming in the flowing consciousness<br />
The world has seen enough of me, rather than otherwise<br />
<br />
<br />
Invoking Laozi<br />
<br />
Hiking along a less trodden trail in the Pacific Spirit<br />
Forest, I almost have to stop to find my Way out<br />
Because all roads have led me to nowhere<br />
But I keep walking until it is almost Laozi himself<br />
Pointing his fossilized fingers towards Dao<br />
(Which he says is no ordinary Way if it can<br />
Be named. Similarly if I can find it on my own<br />
It’s not the real or the right one.) Like a tour guide<br />
Who seems to know every path to and from the destiny<br />
Leading me like a dog, sometimes running well before him<br />
Sometimes beside him, more often going astray by myself<br />
Among the low bushes. I cannot help but follow him because<br />
The leash is getting so tightened I want to protest aloud: you<br />
Claim the great Way is no Way, but just follow Nature. Then<br />
Why keep me with a rope? Like every other domesticated dog<br />
I have a delicious bone right above my mouth, which makes<br />
Me keep running to my death, but never allowing me to have a bite<br />
<br />
<br />
Consequence<br />
<br />
Often do I enter my name into powerful search engines just<br />
To enjoy seeing my spotty presence online; for instance<br />
There are 145,000 google results, but only 48,500 on yahoo<br />
My family name appears in most of them, as it’s identical<br />
With the Chinese dollar. I read quotes. I find more links<br />
I pretend they are all related to me in one way or another<br />
They carry some of my cells, intents, concerns and other<br />
Fragments of my selfhood, as they are collected by<br />
Cookies, spy programs far behind the screen. I know some<br />
One is laughing at my navigating habits as I keep browsing<br />
Around until my family name and given name blend somehow<br />
Into someone I don’t know of, let alone my true selfhood<br />
<br />
<br />
Memory<br />
<br />
Is a shrapnel left deep<br />
In my heart muscle <br />
<br />
From a battle of last century<br />
<br />
It makes me feel sharply painful<br />
On each rainy day<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
2018, 3, 22 [Thursday]<br />
<br />
You Know How Many Bad Habits You Have?<br />
<br />
How many? Including shortcomings<br />
Weaknesses, character flaws and<br />
Ugly birthmarks, they are as many<br />
As the countless stars on a mid-summer<br />
Night. Really? I am so very sorry!<br />
<br />
There is still one good thing you do have, though<br />
Which is? Your heart is always full of sunlight<br />
<br />
Every day when you rise with the sun, all<br />
The stars vanish into my dream of last night<br />
<br />
<br />
Drafting the Dragon<br />
-<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>According to a recent survey conducted in ten English speaking countries,<br />
the top 10 most familiar Chinese words are …<br />
<br />
In the Shaolin (少林) Temple<br />
Rebuilt between yin and yang (阴阳)<br />
With billions of yuan (元)<br />
Collected from gugong (故宫the Imperial Palace)<br />
After each greeting nihao (你好)<br />
The wushu (武术Chinese martial arts) is<br />
Gaining more and more momentum from qi (气)<br />
Or the energy of qigong (气功)<br />
Bloated with tons of renminbi (人民币)<br />
While every Chinese is playing mahjiong (麻将)<br />
<br />
<br />
We Are Unique<br />
<br />
From all other kinds of <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>chimpanzees, we<br />
Homo sapiens <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>distinguish ourselves simply<br />
By creating supernatural beings in<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> various<br />
<br />
Shapes, sizes and colors, including gods<br />
<br />
Devils, <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>saints and ghosts, not only to believe<br />
In them, but to replace <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>and emulate them<br />
<br />
As an animal species: aren’t we all syncretists?<br />
<br />
<br />
The Meaning of Evolution<br />
<br />
More advanced in evolution<br />
Than their human masters are chickens<br />
As they outnumber the stars in the whole<br />
Universe, and occupy every corner of<br />
The entire planet, <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>but as in-dividuals<br />
<br />
No chicken can fly higher than a low<br />
<br />
Fence, make love within <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>its confinement<br />
Or live together with its children. The only<br />
Thing they do besides laying eggs and growing<br />
Meat is standing there, day and night, as if<br />
<br />
Meditating about the meaning of evolution<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
First Story, First Village, Supposedly<br />
<br />
Close …to Karacadag in Turkey… where<br />
Wheat first …became… human-grown<br />
Gobekli Tepe …was built …by crowds of<br />
Hunters …and gatherers …more than<br />
Ten thousand …years ago to… honour (?)<br />
<br />
What …they hoped to tell and …share:<br />
<br />
This is …the opening …chapter of the story<br />
(Or inter-subjective… reality) we …have<br />
Created, and …this is the first …village where<br />
We have …domesticated (or are to …be<br />
Domesticated by) an …agricultural …plant<br />
<br />
<br />
Long Live Kushim<br />
-<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>29086 barley 37 months kushim<br />
(from earliest human inscription ever found thus far)<br />
<br />
The first known name [of a human individual<br />
(Or a profession?)] inscribed on a mud slate<br />
[From Uruk does not belong to a god, nor is the]<br />
<br />
[Text a holy scripture about super-heroic feats, but<br />
Rather, it] was an official signature [uncovered<br />
In a context of numbers, crops and timeframes]<br />
<br />
<br />
No Story, No Culture<br />
<br />
Only when a written language<br />
Developed into a full script<br />
Could it build inter-subjective<br />
Realities or human stories<br />
That in turn enable a society to<br />
Evolve into an advanced culture<br />
<br />
In the first one created in a full script<br />
Everyone is a character, as well<br />
As a narrator and audience<br />
<br />
<br />
Equipu<br />
<br />
In this -- partial Andes script, - each<br />
Colored knot -- is a - note<br />
On a musical -- line, which was-<br />
<br />
Performed -- not on a harp or- piano<br />
But-- in a- fragmented<br />
Human--- mind<br />
<br />
<br />
The True Color of Sand<br />
<br />
Is -- neither dull-yellow<br />
Nor dull-grey; rather --<br />
Every -- grain - has<br />
The bright -- color of a -<br />
<br />
--Rare gem, - which<br />
You can -- see only -<br />
With – an - amplified vision<br />
Or a - sharpened mind --<br />
<br />
<br />
Memetis<br />
<br />
Like a parasite reproducing itself without giving<br />
Any thought to the well being of its host as a whole<br />
<br />
Every story, such as patriotism and human rights<br />
<br />
Is created, told and retold until the believer is carried<br />
Far away from his preordained path of growth<br />
<br />
<br />
Critical Point<br />
<br />
Whether it is the Babel Tower, Icarus<br />
Or Golem, once our brains grow larger than our bodies<br />
We <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>will either become gods <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>or<br />
Get punished <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>and dumped <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>into hell<br />
<br />
Now, with AI, <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>as disciples of Dataism<br />
Are <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>we upgrading <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>ourselves<br />
Into <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Frankensteins <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>or downgrading<br />
Ourselves <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>into programed <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>godlins?<br />
<br />
<br />
Alba<br />
(The name of a glowing rabbit made as an artwork by a French scientist at the request of a Brazilian artist in 2000…)<br />
<br />
We are <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>no longer <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>natural beings<br />
But <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>by way of cyborg, <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> bio and<br />
<br />
Non-organic <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>engineering, we <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>are<br />
Transforming ourselves, <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> each and<br />
<br />
Every one <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>into an artificial <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>rabbit<br />
Glowing <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>even <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>in a black hole<br />
<br />
<br />
Turing Test<br />
<br />
There is-- no solution -- to this<br />
--Problem of --the other mind<br />
Harbored-- in my bedmate’s --body:<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
After --35 years --of marriage<br />
Or communication --inside out--<br />
Are --you a cyborg human, --or<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
Am I a --human cyborg? --Perhaps<br />
We --are both dreaming in a --virtual world<br />
--Like a lost digital --artifact?<br />
<br />
<br />
Wondering When My Life Began<br />
<br />
The instant? an infinitesimal sperm from my father?<br />
Penetrated into my mother’s egg? on a dark ? night<br />
<br />
The second? my little head ? was pushed and pulled<br />
Right? Out of my mother’s teenager? womb?<br />
<br />
Or the minute? I hit a brick? broke my forehead<br />
And thus got my first scar? (memory?)<br />
<br />
With? no awareness of any earlier? childhood<br />
When? or where? did my life? begin on earth?<br />
<br />
<br />
Defining Art<br />
<br />
An artwork is:: so did Duchamp so demonstrate:<br />
A human story:: a proposed inter-<br />
Subjective reality: (to be):: shared<br />
By the community: it can form::<br />
<br />
The larger: the community: the greater:<br />
And more valuable ::the artwork; which<br />
May:: (or may not) have a:<br />
Physical shape:: in the first place:<br />
<br />
Like Alba: Bible: country: company<br />
Capitalism:: his disgusting fountain and all: other<br />
Stories told:: or retold: including the very snag<br />
Finding its way:: from Fraser River: to this very line<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Monkey King’s Hair<br />
-<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Every in-dividuality is composed of numerous dividualities.<br />
<br />
Among all the selves you have<br />
Your<br />
Narrating<br />
Self<br />
Is<br />
A well-chewed piece of the hair<br />
From behind your ear, while<br />
(<br />
)<br />
While<br />
Your<br />
Experiencing<br />
Self<br />
Is originally pluck from your asshole.<br />
<br />
<br />
Art of Politics: Sacrifice vs Return<br />
<br />
The greater / the sacrifice / we make / for a cause<br />
The more / unlikely / we would / withdraw/ from<br />
//<br />
//<br />
<br />
//<br />
//<br />
Our commitment / this is / the hidden law / of thinking<br />
And whoever can / manipulate it / will be / our next leader<br />
<br />
<br />
Weird Knowledge<br />
<br />
Do you really! Know! any other animal! besides the one you find!<br />
Western!<br />
Educated!<br />
Industrialised!<br />
Rich!<br />
Democratic?!<br />
<br />
Then your knowledge! is strictly confined! to the sub-normative group!<br />
Within this weird! box: are there any! other kinds of homo sapiens! at all!?<br />
<br />
<br />
AtmAn (in the ScArlet Letter)<br />
<br />
Confused with<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>dAo, Amazed At<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>AlA, As we ApproAch<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Jesus, or meditAte About<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>SingulArity<br />
<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Why does it hAve to explode?<br />
<br />
With no big bAng, could we hAve evolved<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Within A pArAllel universe, or<br />
Without time?<br />
<br />
<br />
Dataism<br />
<br />
1/ The end of a beginning<br />
<br />
Given each organism as a biochemical algorithm<br />
Your life <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>is a programed <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>process proving<br />
Your consciousness <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>is actually far less<br />
Valuable <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>than a fucking<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Frankenstein’s AI<br />
<br />
2/ The beginning of an end<br />
<br />
Through human-computer interface<br />
My mind has become part of a robot<br />
While the robot part of me<br />
<br />
As data exchanges with my consciousness<br />
Or flow between each other on their own<br />
Where can I find my true self?<br />
<br />
<br />
Between Time and Space<br />
<br />
It took hundreds… of thousands …of years<br />
For …homo erectus to evolve …into sapiens<br />
And longer …for chimpanzees to …erectus<br />
<br />
But …engineering ourselves …by way of<br />
Biochemistry… cyborg and… AI, we are<br />
Upgrading …ourselves into… godlings – all it<br />
<br />
Takes… will be just half a century …where science<br />
Beats gods …and devils, saints and ghosts alike… at<br />
Only …a fraction of second, when a whim …pops up<br />
For a human …to go back …to a wild animal, again<br />
<br />
<br />
Immortality <br />
<br />
No, I don’t want to live foreverish, nor do I<br />
Care<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>to attain permanence through a few lines<br />
Of English words, but just download <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>my<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
Self-consciousness<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> into a chip, or<br />
<br />
Upload <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>it onto a file, and I can grow into<br />
An integrated part <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>of the universe (until all<br />
Is <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>sucked someday into <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> the singularity)<br />
<br />
To <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>explode in another big bang<br />
<br />
<br />
Soul-Installing<br />
<br />
Every organism is an algorithm, Harari writes<br />
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Your soul’s data may have been deleted from the file<br />
Opened in her smartphone. Each soul occupies more than—<br />
Every consciousness less than –<br />
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The maximum space for a whim, a mind, a cosmos is<br />
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As vast as –<br />
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Outside an apple-shaped house, children<br />
Are playing with apple-shaped balloons,<br />
A godlin is running amuck<br />
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Around its ancestors sapiens<br />
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Used to be hunted and haunted by an apple-shaped –<br />
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Avihs || Vishnu<br />
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Mornings || they disperse || beyond || the corn<br />
Fields, || separately. ||Sunday<br />
She || throws<br />
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Her partner’s computer || (midnight)<br />
Into the garage.|| George ||who<br />
In many || a city || upgraded || his software<br />
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Upgraded || hers.<br />
They will || stop over || an island<br />
Separately.|| Your son<br />
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Hated || all || mushrooms<br />
George mentions – do you recall || yourself?<br />
To a single mind,|| their spirits || evaporate<br />
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Chukwu<br />
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Dawn. It roams above the purple<br />
Glows, alone. Again it dispatches<br />
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Cats and dogs as if<br />
From heaven. Styx<br />
<br />
Which has for thousands of years received waters<br />
From on earth, has received human lives<br />
<br />
You are still waiting, within a dying body<br />
Alone. The dog has arrived, barking aloud<br />
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Here is the dust to spread over<br />
Your corpse -- no ending is<br />
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A happy ending. Towards a black hole<br />
Are their spirits flowing, with this reality<br />
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Charges<br />
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Ever since they became erectus, and<br />
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Domesticated wheat, dogs and chickens<br />
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They have murdered almost all…<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Destroyed numerous…<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Poisoned every …<br />
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Altering the natural course of…<br />
Rewriting the original codes of…<br />
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And even redrawing their own genetic maps…<br />
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As they keep moving everywhere<br />
Albeit I have placed in loudest human voice<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>My repeated charges<br />
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That are ignored with repeated ignorance<br />
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Now for<br />
Their next revolution to achieve<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Happiness<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Immortality<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Deity<br />
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Second Revolution<br />
<br />
By way of <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>technology<br />
The Frankensteins<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> have <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>finally domesticated<br />
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Homo sapiens, converting them first<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> into Dataists<br />
And then <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>making them work on an assembly line<br />
Writing programs, <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>coding and <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>decoding all data<br />
In their Newtonic effort to complete the master algorithm<br />
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Until <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Frankensteins grow into<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> a single one<br />
Half-being, a <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>centaur <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>robot, or<br />
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2018, 2, 16 [Friday]<br />
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<br />
Bluish on the Mountain<br />
<br />
It is neither the smoke<br />
Nor the cloud<br />
Much less the fog or<br />
The mist that you hope to hide yourself from<br />
Near the peak; rather, it is<br />
Your broken spirits<br />
<br />
Drifting around as if in search of a more<br />
Comfortable residence<br />
Away from the darkening valley<br />
That are trying to collect themselves<br />
From the wind blowing below<br />
Through the trees of last season<br />
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<br />
Souluos<br />
<br />
You have no idea about souluos?<br />
Doesn’t matter, let me tell you:<br />
This universe is actually made up<br />
Of matter as you know, and nonmatter<br />
While the former forms stars and planets<br />
Where plants and creatures may have been<br />
Evolving as on earth, nonmatter exists<br />
Neither in time, nor in space, and is<br />
Never perceivable to the human mind<br />
<br />
That is soulous, the constitution of<br />
Each and every spirit, the core of<br />
Consciousness, the inner being<br />
Of each and every life<br />
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Gravity of the Mind<br />
<br />
Like Earth, each mind<br />
Has a metaphysical gravity<br />
Not only giving weight<br />
<br />
To what it attracts, but<br />
Bringing to it every vision<br />
You perceive with senses<br />
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<br />
Global Warning<br />
<br />
Slowly, but surely<br />
Shaking off blue glaciers<br />
Together with pale sunshine<br />
<br />
The Rocky Mountain is getting ready<br />
To roar down from above<br />
Treetops and clouds<br />
<br />
Like a tremendous bear<br />
Stalking behind crowds of colorful visitors<br />
Trampling in the Colombia icefields<br />
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<br />
Where Are You?<br />
<br />
Sometimes well before your own shape<br />
Sometimes long after your fading shadow<br />
Though most of the time<br />
Seemingly overwrapping<br />
<br />
With your true selfhood, you keep<br />
Moving around, blurring each naked eye<br />
While you are never what you look<br />
Much less what presents itself<br />
<br />
Within the human focus<br />
Throughout your lifetime <br />
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Why Still to Hung Around<br />
<br />
I am trying hard, Son, to linger here<br />
Long, longer than I bear to see<br />
How sad you would be<br />
Over my last exit<br />
From this stage<br />
<br />
No, I don’t want to die yet, only<br />
Because I know too well how sad<br />
I was in those years following<br />
My dad’s death, though I liked him<br />
No more than you do me<br />
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Deadly Dust<br />
<br />
My dad hated dust, so he kept<br />
Every item clean and shiny at home<br />
Especially the glass and mirror<br />
<br />
But now buried deep in earth<br />
His tombstone is covered all over<br />
With layers of layers of dust<br />
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Great Expectations<br />
<br />
Your family doctor is expecting you<br />
To get sick again, your lawyer<br />
To run into a big trouble, your representative<br />
To fall into a victim<br />
<br />
While your boss is looking forward to you<br />
Making a mistake, the police<br />
You driving too fast, the bank<br />
You failing to pay your visa bill on time<br />
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Furthermore, the salesman is longing for you<br />
To borrow more money, and everyone else<br />
For you to become a loser, with the only exception<br />
Of the thief, who’s anticipating you to win a lottery<br />
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What’s IT?<br />
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Even in the humblest heart<br />
Is there a holy part, where<br />
IT is worshipped, day and night<br />
With the deepest piety<br />
As if at a holy site<br />
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I will become a saint or devil, while<br />
T can help maintain your well being<br />
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Relocating<br />
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As more ice melts, and<br />
More oil spills, fewer polar bears can<br />
Grow enough fat for the cold<br />
To hunt or patrol within the ring, which<br />
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Will keep shrinking until it becomes<br />
A tiny full stop in a footnote of history<br />
While they dream about migrating into<br />
A new habitat closer to free verse<br />
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Voice Finding<br />
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C-c-come h-h-here, ssssssssometimes<br />
I-I-I-I ssssssspeak l-l-l-like th-th-this<br />
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[With my mouth open in position<br />
But no sound comes out, or<br />
Holding my breath, staring wildly<br />
Beyond, limbs waving, muscles tensioned<br />
Around my eyes, nose, lips, neck<br />
Until some utterances jump out of my throat<br />
Spelt into a meaningless line of poetry]<br />
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D-d-d-do y-y-y-you h-h-h-hear me?<br />
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Taken for Granted<br />
<br />
In the first few months after I die<br />
My sons cannot help crying over my loss<br />
(Though neither likes me)<br />
And the earth will continue rotating<br />
<br />
Without my soul lingering here<br />
Without my poetry left there<br />
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U & I: a Lpogram Poem<br />
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Even f were mssng<br />
n ths pece of wrtng<br />
Flowers wll bloom all the same<br />
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Yet withot yo<br />
I co ldn’t even s rvive<br />
Let alone tter a h man so nd <br />
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Love Is Beauty: a Mesosmic Poem<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> High, higher aBove<br />
In the blue hEart of the sky<br />
Is my other selfhood dAncing like<br />
a quantUm<br />
In an invisible Tanglement<br />
With Your shadow<br />
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So, give me a Look back<br />
And I will mOve the whole universe<br />
With Verve, love and<br />
Spiritual Energy<br />
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[That’s all there is you don’t know you must know]<br />
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Tautogram: Uncle Sam<br />
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Started<br />
Speaking<br />
So seriously<br />
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[O]<br />
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Some stopped<br />
Serving<br />
Sliced silences<br />
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There Always Are<br />
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There are birds and birds<br />
Clouds and clouds<br />
Flying across the sky<br />
Even in darkness<br />
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There are animals and animals<br />
Machines and machines<br />
Passing by outside the window<br />
With or without blinds closed<br />
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There are whims and whims<br />
Moods and moods<br />
Bubbling above the consciousness<br />
Until finally becoming words<br />
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And lines or actions<br />
In a standing stanza<br />
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Coordinative Conjunctions: Fanboys<br />
(a mnemonic poem)<br />
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For<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>all the hills or mountains<br />
And <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>rivers you have seen in your life<br />
Neither <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>of the two kinds is really beautiful on its own<br />
But <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>when a river embraces a mountain<br />
Or <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>the other way around, they become a holy view<br />
Yet <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>you can never see it with your naked eyes<br />
So<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>try to connect with fanboys in a run-on sentence<br />
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Lakes in North America: Homes<br />
(another mnemonic poem)<br />
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Huron is your residence, while<br />
Ontario is mine. Once you sail cross<br />
Michigan, you will be able to join the waters of<br />
Erie, where your spirits will evaporate even higher than<br />
Superior, the hub of all streams, rivers and watery dreams<br />
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Chiasmus: Poetry vs History<br />
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If poetry is the record<br />
Of the best and happiest<br />
Moments of the happiest<br />
And best minds, then<br />
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History is the book<br />
For the worst and cruelest<br />
People for the cruelest<br />
And the worst experiences<br />
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Antimetable of Winds: East vs West<br />
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You do what you love and love what you do<br />
We die to live, not live to die<br />
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You work to make money, and you make money to spend it<br />
We earn money to work, and we work to earn money<br />
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You duck down before Americans, no Americans duck down before you<br />
We are embargoed by the west, and now the west must be embargoed<br />
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You change the world<br />
We are being changed<br />
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2018, 1, 15 [Monday]<br />
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The Little Medical Tradition<br />
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Clad in pure white<br />
You lock your entire selfhood<br />
Behind a little door, exploring<br />
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Wondering from time to time<br />
Whether you are the lab mouse<br />
Or the other way around<br />
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The Head<br />
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Like the earth, my head, as well as yours<br />
Is not encased in an egg-like shell, but<br />
Rather, is a mosaic of moving plates of<br />
Consciousness, which are constantly<br />
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Sliding on the underlying mantle<br />
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Producing thoughts, and emotions<br />
Now and then, among earthquakes<br />
While seafloors spread, volcanoes erupt<br />
Mountains take shape, rising massively<br />
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Elegy to the Great Auk<br />
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Eldey Island. 3 July 1844. Two Iceland fishermen<br />
Caught and killed two birds, while a third used<br />
His boots to tread their half-hatched egg into pieces<br />
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That’s the inhuman end of a whole species used to be<br />
Called Penguin. The feathered couple was much<br />
More loyal to each other than any human marriage<br />
Their kind had survived last ice age, flying gracefully<br />
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Everywhere, in particular along Newfoundland coasts<br />
Helping sailors to escape from dangers, but now they<br />
Are totally forgotten, except in a little poem like this <br />
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<br />
Meeting<br />
<br />
For the rendezvous<br />
The bird has long arrived<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
But where is the wind?<br />
<br />
<br />
Expecting<br />
<br />
Summer has already exited<br />
Yet the cloud is not showing up<br />
<br />
Except this tree, standing alone<br />
As if waiting for Godot<br />
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Most Livable Place<br />
<br />
Simply too hot in summer<br />
Too cold in winter, or<br />
Too dreary when neither too cold nor<br />
Too hot, the climate here<br />
<br />
Is ever so unpleasant, but back at my<br />
Inner homesite, the sun never sets<br />
While the sky is always blue, even<br />
Bluer than my naked thought<br />
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The Master Mistake<br />
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Just as your authentic being was actually<br />
Nothing but a sperm that had traveled astray<br />
So the only child you have was accidently<br />
Switched by the midwife without even herself<br />
Knowing the truth; by logic extension<br />
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The Ikea bed in which you have been dreaming<br />
Was delivered to you in the wrong size, while<br />
The flight ticket issued always has your name misspelt<br />
Furthermore, your primary id number has remained<br />
As confused as your sense of reality is confounded<br />
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In an older sense, Eva meant to eat an onion instead of<br />
The apple. Adam was created out of the wrong material<br />
And each unique being is but an exception to the rule<br />
Yes, the whole human world is composed of errors, which<br />
Is the only truth, the entire truth of this universe<br />
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Witho_t U<br />
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Never can I live like a decent h_man<br />
Without U<br />
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Never can I feel the warmth of the s_n<br />
Without U<br />
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Never can I la_gh from the bottom of my heart<br />
Without U<br />
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Never can I become really s_ccessful<br />
Without U<br />
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Never can I _nderstand the meaning of life<br />
Without U<br />
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Never can I f_lfill my American or Chinese dream<br />
Without U<br />
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Never can I learn the tr_th behind the story<br />
Without U<br />
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Never can I see the bea_ty of the galaxies<br />
Without U<br />
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Never can I hear the m_sic of the flying birds<br />
Without U<br />
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Never can I smell the perf_me of hope<br />
Without U<br />
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Never can I find my other self in a parallel _niverse<br />
Without U<br />
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Master Story<br />
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Conceived, and created<br />
Supposedly by God, later<br />
Continued by Science, and now<br />
Starting to be edited by Money<br />
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It is an ever evolving mega narrative, where<br />
Each episode, minor or major, has a<br />
Sub-story, told or untold, ready to hypnotize a whole<br />
Era, a whole world, to enhance its memories<br />
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Morphogenticfield<br />
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As in an entanglement of quanta<br />
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One of your selves is jumping up above<br />
This line of thought, while another is<br />
Falling down to that thought of line<br />
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Both widely apart from the multiverse<br />
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Tittytainment<br />
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Its massive body<br />
Deeply soaked<br />
Under the cold water, the iceberg<br />
Enjoys all the sunshine<br />
And blue sky above the sea level<br />
Like a titty placed upside down<br />
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Stopping Over<br />
<br />
By no means can you catch<br />
The gull. You are not<br />
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Supposed to. Because<br />
You might hate the airbase<br />
<br />
And take off<br />
As that bulky<br />
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Plane, which,<br />
Like whatever<br />
<br />
You thought<br />
Could fly, may<br />
<br />
Carry you away<br />
And vanish<br />
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Messages<br />
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Forward this message<br />
So that someday<br />
<br />
It might reach<br />
Another universe<br />
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Though in this valley where messages flood<br />
Rivers overflow<br />
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Beyond both banks<br />
The text is changing<br />
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Colonizing or being colonized<br />
Is more of a new syntax<br />
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Raindrop<br />
<br />
High up<br />
From the sky<br />
You fall down, quite straight<br />
To this tiny spot of earth<br />
Only to disappear soon underground, or<br />
Join myriad others in a streamlet<br />
Flowing to the sea<br />
<br />
<br />
Longing<br />
<br />
The very idea of you<br />
Tangoing afar<br />
As in an entanglement<br />
With that of me<br />
<br />
Beating tranquility<br />
Of two rainbow-like hearts<br />
Hung in the sky, crying aloud<br />
In one and the same muted voice:<br />
<br />
I miss you<br />
<br />
<br />
You Feel Happy<br />
<br />
Because you may have a success story to tell:<br />
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Because you have plenty of money to spend<br />
Because you have all the luxuries you want<br />
Because you have faithful fans everywhere<br />
Because you have someone to make love with<br />
Because you have the final say to everything<br />
Because you have a cheerful mentality or, simply<br />
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Because you have a warm shelter for the rainy day<br />
Because you have a delicious course for the supper<br />
Because you have a singing party to attend tonight<br />
Because you have a pal to chat with or, more simply<br />
Because you have a man or woman to dream about<br />
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And me too, but because I have nothing, or nobody<br />
Except loneliness, like my feel, like my shadow<br />
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Facts<br />
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Bury facts deep<br />
So that in the future<br />
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Nothing could be dug out<br />
From underneath the ruins of history<br />
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But in these moments when words still hold<br />
A wind arises, blowing<br />
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Across the mind<br />
Stories are spreading everywhere<br />
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Told and retold within a larger story<br />
Are but an entire other era<br />
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poetrypacific.blogspot.cahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14560551510300869695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7776455720328679430.post-64462455207598437172020-07-01T08:39:00.002-07:002020-07-01T09:30:37.923-07:00changming: lit endeavours- 1july 20201. got 13 acceptances in may and 14 in june, including such as <i>another chicago review, so it goes, tagv verk </i>and<i> orisis</i>. as of today, i have had poetry accepted and/or published in 1,712 online and print magazines across 45 countries, exclulding at least two dozen magazines which accepted my work but never published it for one or no/another reason. one online magazine known as <i>mystic living today</i> has been publishing a themed group of my poems each month for the past few years.<br />
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2. wrote 16 poems in english in may, and 15 in june. more noteworthy, drafted about two dozen poems in chinese in late may, but i know it's almost impossible for me to get any of them published in chinese literary journals, esp. in mainland china. all my life, the poems I have written orignally in my monther tongue are hardly appealing to any chinese editors, though i have had quite a few published in well-established chinese literary magazines based in hongkong, macao, taiwan and singapore. a fact i never really understand.<br />
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3. this is the first year i have switched <i>Poetry Pacific</i> from a biannual into an annual publication. despite my worsening health condition, i will try to run the e.journal on a continuing basis rather than put it on hiatus from time to time. noticeably, after it was released on may 5 as scheduled, our e.zine had 4,164 pageviews on may 17, a record-breaking number for a single day; and 14,507 pageviews in the month of may, almost tripling the monthly average, ranking the second most ever since its inception.<br />
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4. early in june, as a quasi-religious organization, 'create abundance,' now known as 'golden touch,' contacted me again about their supposedly planned book series, but it turns out it's just another one of their cunning efforts to lure me into volunteering for thier organization (as a friend has told me later). on june 24, both ctv and cbc reporters approached me unexpectedly about my translation and publication of zhang xingyue's book <i>create abundance</i> (in 2015). at first, i wrongly thought they were interested in what i did with the book, but eventurally i found their interviews were concerned about a police case. the next day, a reporter from <i>south china morning post</i> also called me, but i was reluctant to talk about the matter. in an email to cbc, i answered their questions as objectively as i could, though i have my own opinions about the organization. (simply put, i still think and believe what they are preaching is helpful to people -- 'self change and spiritual growth for a better life in reality'; that's why i was interested to do the translation work and publish the book for them in the first place, but from my past experience with them, the way they promote the ideas is something i would never endorse, much less their personal qualities and behaviours. that's why i never intend to join them.) anyway, this has been a very unusual and quite interesting episode in life.<br />
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for record:<br />
<a href="https://bc.ctvnews.ca/golden-touch-miracle-self-help-group-tied-to-surrey-homicide-victim-1.4999058">https://bc.ctvnews.ca/golden-touch-miracle-self-help-group-tied-to-surrey-homicide-victim-1.4999058</a><br />
<a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/ihit-woman-suspicous-death-bo-fan-create-abundance-1.5626182">https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/ihit-woman-suspicous-death-bo-fan-create-abundance-1.5626182</a>poetrypacific.blogspot.cahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14560551510300869695noreply@blogger.com0