DANDELION
The horizon is so far away
that the dandelion makes its roaming dream
a relay event
from
generation
to
generation
AUTUMN WINDOW
Now that she is middle-aged, my wife
likes to stand before the window
and comb her hair
Her only makeup a trace of cloud
the landscape of a graceful
poised maturity
SHARING AN UMBRELLA
Sharing an umbrella
I suddenly realize the difference between us
Yet bending over to kiss you
give me such joy
as you try to meet me halfway
on tiptoe
READING
As soon as he opens the book
words lead the way
and sentences follow
all disappear in a hurry
Only the best-selling title
and the hotly talked-about name
of the author
remain
What a great book
SUNSET
a glowing red ball
hanging over the branches
indeed seems out of proportion
but the tree
flushed with excitement
insists
that it is his day's work
the fruit he produces
EVERY TIME I SEE...
Every time I see a little tree
budding timidly
in the spring breeze
I have an urge
to hold your thin shoulders in my arms
and squeeze
a good morning to you
THE GREAT WALL
1
The struggle between civilization
and barbarism
must be ferocious
See this Great Wall
it twists and turns
with no end in sight
2
What valor
to climb the ragged ridge
and to look long and hard
through a self-adjusting lens
at the skeleton of the dragon
that sprawls miles and miles
in the wasteland
of time
YEAR OF THE HORSE
A dashing horse
is always one step
ahead
of the rolling dust
In the Year of the Horse
one ought to make
365
hoofbeats
VIETNAM WAR MEMORIAL
A block of marble
and twenty six letters of the alphabet
etch so many young names
onto history
Wandering alone
amid the mass grave
an old woman has at last found
her only child
and with her eyes tightly shut
her trembling fingers now feel
for the mortal wound
on his ice-cold forehead
YELLOW RIVER
If you trace up the turbid current, you will find
as any geography book can tell you
the Kunlun Mountains in Qinghai
Yet according to history's bloody accounts
this river
which turns clear at most
once in a thousand years
has its origin in millions of eye sockets
of suffering human beings
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