New Perspectives on Contemporary Chinese Poetry

(Chris Devlin) #1

The turbulent waters are gone
The river gradually grows colder
Leaves fall
Autumn floats and sinks
The water’s words
Sputter on dangerous shoals
The fallen leaves are silent as autumn
sheds tears
There’s absolutely no need for such
classical cruelty
The road extends to the horizon
Precipices and plains are all part
of the course
In the great wave of Change
There is no need for joy or sorrow
And even less need to stubbornly
insist that
I’m just a bubble amid Change
Fear is unnecessary
Anger is unnecessary
Excessive concern is unnecessary
Living for a philosophy or death
Also


Unnecessary
God exists in the breaths we take
And in the
Breathing of a
Blood-gorged louse
Reverence is unnecessary
Excessive faith is like extra flesh
Piety is unnecessary
Before constructing the garden of life
We were choked
With all sorts of poisonous weeds
And God
Was silent
Our only enemy is time
Before the dream is done
The course of life is run
A plume of smoke
Rises into the empty sky
Silently disperses
Vanishing into a greater nirvana
To deny illness unnecessary
To prevent fading and ageing unnecessary


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