Black is this year, both because the ominous
Number floods the world with America’s QE3
Snowden’s dark secrets, and war threats from
Obama, the Nobel peace prize winner, and
More important, because this is the year of
Snake, the most difficult year in my entire life
When I have been bitten by 3 vipers; one has
Run away with a piece of meat from my heart
Another trying to strangle me into a slow death
And the third still waiting to swallow my hardened
Body with its young and ambitious mouth, all
Sloughed out of the attractive terror of white
Siamese Stanzas: Snowflakes
with
as little noise
as much leisure
as possible
you came
to perch
at this cold spot of time
like a pale word
fallen on the wasteland
merely to melt
a voiceless being soft and quiet
never heard before you
yet ready to vanish
herald tracelessly
the glaring in the green
thunder wind
of
summer time
30 Monolines
Man becomes established at the age
of thirty -- Confucius
1. The meaning of life, if any at all, is to create
a meaning for life.
2. This is a graying age, where white is turning
black while black white.
3. There is light in every dream we have in
darkness.
4. However pitch-dark the entire night is, it can
never turn a single snowflake black.
5. There is no distinguishing between black and
white, for the color of life is grey to begin with.
6. A house for sale is never a home, while a heart
unoccupied is a hotel for rent.
7. Freedom is the thin distance between the fleeing
mouse and the chasing cat.
8. Love may be 99% honey and 1% money, while
marriage is definitely otherwise.
9. Pleasant or painful, all experiences are as good
as cash saved for a long rainy day.
10. Birth throws us out into different times
whereas death recalls us back into the same place.
11. No rules are created for their creators.
12. In this age of information, we are all fish
swimming freely before the net is towed onto the boat.
13. The more high technologies, the more low minds.
14. Many still very much alive are already stone
dead; many already stone dead are still very much alive.
15. On the stage of life, we may not be able to
choose the play, but we can choose the roles to play.
16. Comedy can come without romance or finance, but
tragedy has to do with either or both.
17. Growth is painful because it means a series of
deaths of our pasts, while death can be pleasant because it may result from a
series of births of our presents.
18. Misfortune is a peculiar privilege.
19. In memories, roses always look fresher, while
thorns less sharp.
20. What we see or read has always been so edited
that the truth remains only in the mind of history unwritten.
21. God died long ago; heroes have all disappeared;
and here is man left standing alone.
22. The bird flies as high as heaven, but it has to
return to the earth to make a nest.
23. Remaining an outsider can give you a sense of
superiority, transcendence and peacefulness.
24. Time is the most meticulous makeup master of
all.
25. Only those determined to reform others can hope
to be reformed.
26. Parting is painful; even more so is having no
one to part from.
27. He is happy who is not afraid not to be rich,
sexual, famous or powerful.
28. Do some deep thinking about nothing every day,
and you will stay healthy, wealthy and wise
29. We all have some questions for heaven, but
heaven always remains silent.
30. Like a silkworm, I have contributed all my silk
to the human world. If it does not care, why should I? Bionote
Changming Yuan, 6-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 in international student. With a PhD in English from the University of Saskatchewan, Changming currently tutors in Vancouver. Interviewed earlier this year by PANK, Changming has had poetry appearing in Best Canadian Poetry (2009; 12), BestNewPoemsOnline, Exquisite Corpse, London Magazine, Threepenny Review and 749 other literary journals/anthologies across 28 countries.
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