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four poems by Yuan Changming

Youth

The nursery rhyme jumps from my aging chest

Eager to embrace the changing world with zest


Hello, young trees! Hello, summer’s sunshine!

How are you all doing along this humble line?


I will resume my old childhood dream

I will try this new feature like ice cream


I will return to my long lost native place

On this planet’s other side to find the face


& confess to her as the apple of my eye 

Pretending I can restart my life, can’t I?

Shhh

The cosmos is expanding

Black holes sucking 

Old stars sparkling

New stars being born

Manmade satellites moving around the earth

Earth rotating & revolving

Clouds colliding

E.signals shooting  


The swishing of traffic on Granville Street

Sawing at the house construction site nearby

Power-washing 

Mowing

Talking to a fellow human  


Tick-tacking of the clock

Buzzing of the fridge

Computer fanning while in the present moment


My heart is beating, as silence presents itself as

A vast stage, where noises enter & exit one after another 

As if to leave my protobeing alone, all in a hurry   

Heartfelt Hieroglyphics: Learning the Chinese Characters

 

怒: anger influxes when slavery 

                                                                          Rises from above the heart

愁: worry thickens as autumn 

                                                                          Sits high on your heart

闷: depressed whenever your heart is

                                                                          Shut behind a door

意: meaning is defined as 

                                                                          A sound over the heart

思: thought takes place 

                                                                          In the field of heart

忘: forgetting happens 

                                                                          When there’s death on heart

忍: to tolerate is to bear a knife

                                                                          Right above your heart 

Crows Are Being Born Again

                             It is an undeniable fact now: 

They have arisen from the bare ground


Like the phoenix flapping its wings out of its 

Legendary ashes, where are they going?

Nowhere but high up into a virtual space, a world 

That, like history book, is full of black headlines


Big names, & bold details. All transmitted

Into digital forms. Even the most unidentifiable

Has become a star above its dark caws. 

                                                               Each 

Taken for an angel winged with the rainbows 

Of tomorrow, while all cranes and swans are lost 

                      In their dances to the tune of death

Yuan Changming published monographs on translation before leaving his native country. Currently, Yuan edits Poetry Pacific with Allen Qing Yuan in Vancouver. Credits include ten Pushcart nominations, eight chapbooks  & publications in Best of the Best Canadian Poetry (2008-17) & BestNewPoemsOnline, among others.  

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