Human Culture
when i wake up
and open my eyes
i see all my dreams
bounced back from the frames
when i take a shower
and start to sing
i taste my song tart
behind the blurring curtain
when i strive to step
out of my humble house
i feel fences quarreling hard
in the whole neighborhood
when i visit around and
do some blind sightseeing
i smell blood stained
along the castle foot
finally i flee from this world
and hide myself far away
i still seem to hear
the glaring cries from the great wall
delicately hung is this earth
a bluish cage in the universe
when i wake up
and open my eyes
i see all my dreams
bounced back from the frames
when i take a shower
and start to sing
i taste my song tart
behind the blurring curtain
when i strive to step
out of my humble house
i feel fences quarreling hard
in the whole neighborhood
when i visit around and
do some blind sightseeing
i smell blood stained
along the castle foot
finally i flee from this world
and hide myself far away
i still seem to hear
the glaring cries from the great wall
delicately hung is this earth
a bluish cage in the universe
Snow vs Crow: A Wintry Vision
Like billions of dark butterflies
Beating their wings
Against nightmares, rather
Like myriads of
Spirited coal-flakes
Spread from the sky
Of another world
A heavy black snow
Falls, falling, fallen
Down towards the horizon
Of my mind, where a little crow
White as a lost patch
Of autumn fog
Is trying to fly, flapping
From bough to bough
Like billions of dark butterflies
Beating their wings
Against nightmares, rather
Like myriads of
Spirited coal-flakes
Spread from the sky
Of another world
A heavy black snow
Falls, falling, fallen
Down towards the horizon
Of my mind, where a little crow
White as a lost patch
Of autumn fog
Is trying to fly, flapping
From bough to bough
During ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!
aired on 29 October 2013, a 6-year-old boy
proposed to ‘kill everyone in China’; in reply to the wide protest
against such verbal violence, the White House recently claimed, “the principle of protected free speech is an important part of who we are as a nation."
Apparently, it is not the
tiny guy
But his big parents
Who would very much like
To kill everyone in China
No, it is not even his
parents
But his teachers, the
picture
Books he reads, the movies
he watches
The computer games he plays,
and
The media bombs he hears constantly
That encourages him to do
so
On the other hand, it is
not the yellow-skinned
Yellow-hearted Chinese
really
But anyone that has a hue
different from a wasp
That may turn out more
civilized, less hypocritical
Or as innocent as the
little angel sitting at the ABC’s
Round Table that Uncle Sam
and his dogs of war
Aim to kill, destroy, wipe
out from the earth
Just to get rid of any
debts they owe
To you and me
Bionote
Changming Yuan (pen name of Yuan Wuming), 7-time Pushcart nominee and author of Chansons of a Chinaman (2009) and Landscaping (2013), grew up in a remote Chinese village and published several monographs before moving to Canada as an international student. With a PhD in English from the University of Saskatchewan, Changming currently tutors in Vancouver. Most recently radio-interviewed by World Reading Series, Changming operates Poetry Pacific Press and has had poetry appearing in Best Canadian Poetry (2009; 12), BestNewPoemsOnline, Istanbul Review, LiNQ, London Magazine, Paris/Atlantic, Poetry Kanto, Poetry Salzburg, SAND, Taj Mahal Review, Threepenny Review, Two Thirds North and 800 other literary journals/anthologies across 28 countries. yuans@shaw.ca
Bionote
Changming Yuan (pen name of Yuan Wuming), 7-time Pushcart nominee and author of Chansons of a Chinaman (2009) and Landscaping (2013), grew up in a remote Chinese village and published several monographs before moving to Canada as an international student. With a PhD in English from the University of Saskatchewan, Changming currently tutors in Vancouver. Most recently radio-interviewed by World Reading Series, Changming operates Poetry Pacific Press and has had poetry appearing in Best Canadian Poetry (2009; 12), BestNewPoemsOnline, Istanbul Review, LiNQ, London Magazine, Paris/Atlantic, Poetry Kanto, Poetry Salzburg, SAND, Taj Mahal Review, Threepenny Review, Two Thirds North and 800 other literary journals/anthologies across 28 countries. yuans@shaw.ca
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