EXISTENCEANDNON-EXISTENCE
-my daily life-
The sky wakes up, the grass sleeps
A new day is like a rolling washing machine
A fire for cooking and a pot for frying vegetables
The kitchen, existing and non-existent forms
home, a bed, ruin gesture
A door without a wall, the study
There are countless people communicating in
the pages of the book
you fill out a blank page
Replacement of unpredictable interlayers
For a poem, in a dream
Talk to Muses about Confucius, Yi Yin, King Wu
Talk about Ulysses, Aristotle
When talking about Qu Yuan and Du Fu, there is a flash in the east
you used to live in red tape
Some indelible memories, like movies
Hanging on the wall, evoking the desire to die
resuscitated like a snuffed cigarette butt
Rekindling Faith and Love in a Forest
therefore
I sew buttons on an old shirt
Find your way out of the world for absurd islands
Find a place for a body-intimate creek
Water the truth for grown vegetables
Pray for apple trees, rice fields, miscanthus
(August 2, 2022)
Translation: Andreas Weiland (Germany)
I AM A POETESS
I am lucky to be a female poet in the 21st century.
During thousands years of history,
Women’s status and rights have always been humble.
Now I want to stand among the forerunners of the present.
It’s not just about being a good daughter, wife and mother,
Nor does it just consume energy and time to sew and cook,
But to be as strong and as independent as a pine tree.
Of course, we also smile like a flower.
Like Marie Curie’s wisdom rising to the heights,
Like Nightingale, the founder of poetry,
Like Simon de Beauvoir writing her own philosophy.
When you can hold an umbrella for someone else
You don’t have to be afraid of rain and snow,
You are worthy of life in that way.
You are also the creator of this era.
(September 29, 2023)
UNIMAGINABLE
There is a kind of ugliness that seems reasonable,
But so far people have not found a language to reveal it
They do despicable things in the name of justice
and dig graves from the spine of the earth downwards.
What they hold in their arms are not their wives and children
but are murderous weapons
Gaza became a human prison.
However, on another coast of the sea
someone yawned and sang Christmas carols
Plan to find nourishment on the scorched earth
After feeding it into the scorpion’s mouth,
remove the rotten parts
and turn the rest into a crown.
(October 30, 2023)
Prepared by Angela Kosta Executive Director of the Magazines: MIRIADE, NUANCES ON THE PANORAMIC CANVAS, BRIDGES OF LITERATURE, journalist, poet, essayist, publisher, literary critic, editor, translator, promoter
