The following is a group of poems all titled 'Natural Confrontations,' which have been published online or in print by various journals in the past couple of years:
1.Crow
A baby raven
Popping up from nowhere
Tries to
Establish itself:
one dark truth
On the skeletal tree top
Yawing fiercely
Towards the sky, the wind, the buildings
The fields and the entire afternoon
All so fluffily white
In jade-toned snow
one dark truth
On the skeletal tree top
Yawing fiercely
Towards the sky, the wind, the buildings
The fields and the entire afternoon
All so fluffily white
In jade-toned snow
2. Seagull
As if right from heaven
A snowy seagull charges down
Trying to pick up the entire ocean
With its bold beak
As the tsunami raises
All its fierce fists
In sweeping protection
Against earth’s agitation
In foamy darkness
3. Plum Blossom
Without a single leaf
Grass-dyed or sun-painted
To highlight it
But on a skeletal twig
Glazed with dark elegies
A bud is blooming, bold and
blatant
Like a drop of blood
As if to show off, to challenge
The entire season
When whims and wishes
Are all frozen like the landscape
4. Eddy
A gossamer-like breeze
Left far behind
By a running dog
Tries to strike
The stagnated twilight
Hanging above the whole city
Before the storm sets in
5. Bamboo
From under
A bulky boulder
Sitting still, meditating
Like a Buddha
A tiny bamboo sprout
Has just broken the earth
Ready to shoot up
Against the entire sky
6. Grass
Inspired by spring’s spirit
You turn all your life
Into a pair of green swords
No matter how many times
Your head and heart
Are both trodden
You still hold them high
Against the summer sky
7. Leaf
Like a wounded soldier
Firmly holding his position
You are the only one
Still hanging there
To blockade the invasion
Of a whole cold season
8. Firefly
Burst with courage
You are flying around, using
Your little light
Like a sharp scissor tip
To rip off the heavy curtain
Of all the darkness
Blown out of frenzy dreams
9. Cloud
Your body so light
Soft, short, never
Even having a fixed shape
Yet you resist the strongest
Summer sun, trying to
Shield every ray it shoots down
Towards the huge empire
Getting increasing hot on earth
10. Octopus
To escape
From your predator
You eject the ink out of
Your little body
As if to dye the whole ocean
Into thick night
11. Orchid
Deep in the valley
Alone on a shady
spot
You bloom aloud,
though
There are neither
eyes
Nor ears open
nearby
Paying the
slightest attention
To your shape or
melody
Be it ever so
fragrant
So fulfilling
12. Lotus
From foul, decayed
silt
At the very bottom
Of a big lake of
dirty murk
You shoot clean
Against the
morning sun
Always pure
Crystal
Unpollutable
13. Corn
With a small body
Of teeth, you have
bitten off
Every golden
minute
From the warm day
Hoping to collect
and store
All the sunlight
Of the passing
season
14. Cuckoo
With a thin
Blood-throated
voice
You call out aloud
Trying to wake up
Millions of
millions
Of trees and rocks
All deeply lost in
Their cold dreams
Of last winter
15. Ant
Stretching its
hair-like limbs
As far as it can
The ant embracing
The tallest
Douglas tree
In the forest
Attempts to shake
off
All its leaves
Branches, and even
To uproot it
16. Vortex
Turning, twirling
In ever smaller
circles
A vortex in the
stream
Seems to be
sucking in
All the waters on
earth
Like the black
hole
Trying to swallow
The whole universe
17. Feather
A white fluffy
plume
From an unknown
bird
Happening to fly
by
Drifts around,
falling down
Slowly, as if to
wipe out
All the dust at
dusk
With its invisible
fingers
18. Squirrel
Dripping along
From its freshest
wound
A squirrel runs zigzag
Across a forlorn
field
As if to melt
All the ice
In the valley, or
To warm up
The hardened heart
of the winter
19. Meteorite
With a resolution
Harder than a diamond
You burn yourself up
As your strike down from high above
Trying to warm up
The entire universe, even
At the cost of your own life
Short, but like a prolonged exclamation mark
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