17 spheres conceived by the flesh of earth and water
each one a wish,
to keep myself restrained by good faith
rich cocoa coconut shells, albeit grazes and nicks,
each one a wish
weathered and dropping
yet so creamy like euphony from the lips
each one a wish
unspoken but powerfully recited
inscribed with mini-mighty Buddhas
each one a wish
to be enshrined and embraced
the stretchy wire coiled through and up into delicate loops
each one a dying wish
heading towards where they're all tied up
the carvings of Asian depictions
each one a wish
for luck to somehow hang around my hands
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Heartscaping: Three Chinese Characters
思: thought takes place
In the field of heart
闷: depressed when your heart is
Shut behind a door
忍：tolerate with a knife
Right above your heart
Matrix of Creation
Like water
Life flows along
Fiction rendered into fact
Like steam
Consciousness evaporates above
Evil turned into good
Like ice
Spirits crystallizes beyond
Ugly made beautiful
Word Play
If you could
Which English word
Would you become? Which?
I would as lief
Be ‘life’:
I may well turn out a ‘lie’
Without f--, but possessed in this word
My spelling contains many an ‘if’
Yes, to live a life is to
Go through as many an if
As you might wish to wish
Last Prayer
Jesus my dear Lord!
Were I
Really to have an afterlife
I hope to become a wolf, or
A fir, for instance
Just to be a bit more, or even less
Than a human being
Bionote
Allen Qing Yuan, author of Traffic Light, is a 2-time Pushcart and 2-time Best of the Net nominee. A co-editor of Poetry Pacific, Allen is just starting to work as a junior accountant in Vancouver. Since grade 10, Allen has had poetry appear in more than 70 literary publications across 16 countries, which include Cordite Poetry Review, Literary Review of Canada, Poetry Scotland, Shampoo and Spillway.
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