Sunday, 3 May 2026

[archived poems©by yuan: 2023-2]

 

2023, 9, 10 [Sunday]

 

Sexual/Spiritual Paradox: for LL

 

Better hard than long, even better

Thick than hard, you might want to say

As you become ready to catch

The most powerful thrust of

A man’s love for a woman on earth

 

But alas, shortened with age, softened

By a whole variety of hardships &

Thinned with physio-psychological wear

My penis is my soul that needs as much

Tenderness as encouragement to settle well

In your vulva, my ultimate nest, ever so cozy 

 

 

Inscript: for LL

 

Slowly, carefully, between your ravishing breasts

Let me accomplish this first & only poem

Ever tattooed on the (fairest & cleanest!) skin

Of a woman, with all the synapses of my love all

Focused at a ball pen, like a thinned but hardened penis 

 

 

People Mountains

 

Every mountain is covered with

Bushes & grasses. Among them

Each tree tries growing desperately

As if to emulate the peak

Towering straight against the sky

Though neither of them

Could really share how the mountain

Feels as the only outstanding existence

 

Whereas I prefer to be a low ridge, lying afar

Enjoying my obscure but total independence

 

 

High Spirit’s Secrets

 

                        Always looking forward

To tomorrow when the sun rises

With all the fresh growths on earth, leaving

Yesterday’s shadows far behind. To the little

Cloud lingering along the horizon as if trying

To find the entrance to an other larger space

Parallel or not. To the message to be sent

From an unknown editor about the status

Of a poem. Also to the moment where the

Light is sucked into the depth of the black

Hole hidden somewhere in an inner cosmos

To a familiar sight from a new perspective

Even to death as it is preparing something

Better to come into my afterlife, or yours

 

 

Here in This Antlike Moment

 

Here in this antlike moment

Arise my spirits

Illuminating my own shadow

 

They’re up against the dark cloud

Ready to join in a heavy storm

Shooting like a thunder

 

Now I see the unlimited sky

Besides the cracking light

Now I know my fate

 

 

Alternative Longevity: for LL

 

  Just as Wang Lun, the richest guy in the world’s

Greatest dynasty has outlived his name in history

Since he bribed Li Po with tons of rare & valuable

Goods over a thousand years ago, thus inspiring

The great high Tang poet to mention his gifts

In an immortal line

                             So you are the only Chinese

Woman who’s found your way into foreign poetry

Much “Like a love letter into its envelop,” without

Even making an empty promise.

   You don’t speak

A single English word, nor have you ever

Bothered to read any stanzas in our mother tongue

But now you’re in full display in a museum of love

I’ve built with the words of the imperial language

Capital, The Capital

 

  You are not really money, but

The vampire growing in the depth of

Our nature, ever fed by top intelligence

That has been sucking into your stomach  

All the dollar-minded souls struggling

Fiercely in every human space

   Now you are

Blocking the way we breathe, making us pay

For uncontaminated water. One day

You will force us to slave just for a single ray

Of sunlight as you keep inventing wars &

Plagues just to accumulate another gram of gold

 

 

 

The Human Ironies

 

We’ve been to the Mars as well as the Moon

& in a relativistic rocket, we may travel farther

Beyond the milk way, while we can see as far

As 46.5 billion light years afar, with all

Our body parts & senses extended tremendously

 

But alas, our nature has not made the smallest progress

For example, to satisfy our greed, we spend all the money

We have to make weapons to murder our fellow beings

Yet we find it too costly to produce a few pills that can put

A dead end to our endless sufferings from pain & poor health

 

 

Inner Cosmetology

 

Bringing us all together with it

Earth travels six hundred kilos

Per second, within or without

The frame of time, not to find

A home to settle itself in

An other space, but for our

Innermost being to grow

       Into a complete whole

 

 

Twilight Love: for LL

 

Whose last days won’t be full of pain? Who may

See the rainbow only after all the storms?

             When I open my eyes and can no longer

Find my way ahead, you will be the light guiding

Me through the darkest moments of the long night

Just as I, hopefully, will give you some warmth

In the coldest hours of next winter, until we die

 

Monument/Epitaph: for LL

 

[Inscribed with a fountain-pen

Between the breasts of a woman]

 

Lover of HQH, who’s inspired

The creation of more than

One hundred love poems

A trilogy besides dozens

Of short stories

 

1957 -2039

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


2023, 7, 12 [Tuesday]

 

Drink: An Essay on History of Civilisation xx

 

On the tray of world history are six glasses

As Tom Standage has recently demonstrated

At a cocktail party:

Beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea and Coca-Cola

Each representing a signature technology

For a corresponding era.

  While we find each

More tasteful than plain water, it’s warm water

Rather than any other drink that is even more

Preferable to us Chinese, if not to future

Drinkers. Since thirst is always more

Deadlier than anger, the whole history of

Human civilisation boils down to what

         We add to pure water

 

 

Freegments: 10 Random Reflections

 

  1. The biggest success for me

Is to live an enjoyable life   

 

  1. The meaning of life, if any at all

Is yet to create one for yourself

 

  1. Poetry is truth, good or beauty

Perceived beyond immediacy

 

  1. The most fascinating fact of my life : All I have

Gone through are published as poetry or fiction

 

  1. A smile on your face can drop on the ground anytime

Only an inner joy will keep your soul uplifted forever

 

  1. Skin pleasure is strong, bone pleasure enduring

While spiritual pleasure is as strong as enduring

 

  1. It’s not the wind but the lost souls rising from under-

Ground that are storming through the cement forests

 

  1. Go dream a bluish dream, where 

I will join you in body as in soul

 

  1. So many black tears are contained in the red-hearted

Melon as if we’re all imprisoned in a sweet universe

 

  1. The highest ability is to live a simple life

After one has undergone all complications

 

 

Webbing

 

Among more than 4,600 kinds of spiders

We belong to the one that knits a single web

Throughout its lifetime, throwing out all

Its silk, not to catch flies or insects, but

To contribute to the making of a shroud

 

 

Floral Fall

 

In spring, different blossoms fall in different

Rimes and rhythms

     Their pedals coming off

One by one, whereas in autumn, all flowers

Wither together

 Each descending as a whole

As if to distinguish themselves from leaves

 

 

Cicada’s Secret

 

You expend your whole lifetime        in soiled darkness

Only to sing a single song high up     on a tree

At the sunniest moment of the season. Though    too

High-pitched, too       mono-toned to the ear, your voice

Sounds like heavenly music   to someone that can not

Only    recognize you from myriad others, but remain

Your true soulmate until        the end of the day

 

 

Super Senses for Virtual Love

 

I cannot swim as fast as a sailfish

But my thought can penetrate your body in not time  

 

I cannot see circular polarized light like a mantis

But I can see your faintest innermost smile

 

I cannot recognize every odor from my environment

Like an elephant, but I can discern your natural scent

 

My tongue has much fewer taste-sensitive cells than

A catfish, but I know how sweet your air kisses are

 

My ears are not as sharp as a cat’s

But I can hear the muted melody of your femininity

 

 

My Love vs Your Love: for ll

 

My love for you is a summer sun

Yours for me is an autumn moon

  

My love is a call in the valley

Yours is an echo through mists

 

My love is a heartless onion

Yours is a splashing loach

 

My love is redder than a red rose

Yours is bluer than a blue dream

 

 

Love for the Rest of My Life: for ll

 

Well before our reencounter

In early October of 2019, I’d written

(& published) poetry in every form

(Or non-form), belonging to every

Sub-genre (or non-genre), about

Everything (or nothing)

  Except love

Not because I was incapable, but

Because I’d been deprived of it

Until I was finally inspired by you, &

Since then, I’ve become disabled to

Write about anything else in my poetry

(& even fiction)

But you, & you alone

 

 

I Know What You Are: for ll

 

Not everyone is capable of deep love

& those who are often fail to find it

Whereas few are really equipped

To articulate their depths in need as

In deed. But I am capable, lucky &

Articulate at the same time, & that’s

Why my love is redder than a red rose

 

At an old age, I’ve learned not to care who

I really am, but I’ve recognized you as my

Only opportunity to love a woman from

The heart of my soul & write love poetry

 

 

I Write; Therefore, I Am

 

How I wished to find meaning in life

Like everyone else, always busy

Trying to make some sense out of

Their small existences. By making

A name. By striking rich. Or by gaining

Power in an office, but alas, they’re all

Ethereal, even if they

Could change the shape of this world

 

The true meaning of life, if any at all

Is to create one out of it; for instance

By writing and loving. In fact, by

Living & writing about my life, I’m

Living twice & will attain immortality

 

    What I say is, to write is to live

Not only in this moment but to live for ever

As writing offers traceable permanence

Eternalizing & transcending the idea of time

Though the words are subject to editing

Misunderstanding; to accidental deletion

To permanent loss during transmission

As to fire & water, no matter whether they

Are printed in paper or stored in cyberspace  

 

 

De-Dolling

 

Every one of us is a doll, filled up with

Linguistic shreds, cultural rags, all

Covered with fine fabric of modernity

Clod with layers of layers of ideological

Fashions, except the air, which I wish to

Take out of myself, thus living a true life

Of my own, like Adam’s rib. Nah, like

Fuxi’s breath blown into a mass of clay

 

 

All Is Moving around the Clock

 

Like the second hand

            Every human rotates around the self

Like the minute hand

            Every star revolves around the interest

Like the hour hand

            Every galaxy keeps flying to the Attractor

 

 

Emotional Curiosity: for ll

 

I’ve forgotten where I came from

Nor do I care where I am going

But I wonder who I am, especially

Why every cell in my innermost

 

Being revolves around the thought

Of you, like stars in the Milk Way

Like every galaxy that keeps

Moving towards the Great Attractor

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