Best Chen Poems

CORONALITY (1)

Polyneuropathy of a poisonous dark child,
Weapon of mass destruction,
Born to the family called Earth,
Name Corona, last name Virus,
Nickname Covid, aged nineteen (19),
Nationality China, who...

Read more of this work...

Author: Runping Chen

The desk sends forth its particular fragrance
That gladden people’s hearts.
That is the sweet-smelling of the old camphor bodies
And into the impression of my...

Read more of this work...

Confession
  
    Author: Runping Chen 

From the peak of soul
I carry a handful of clean soil;
From the rapids of life
I scoop...

Read more of this work...

fireworks light up sky.
hi-lo buildings, pumped-up torch
of New York Harbor,
ripples of copious ships,
excited helicopters.
the twins are very happy,
long before they fall
on their smoking knees
and crumble...

Read more of this work...

China Spies and Lies

Concentration camps in the north
disappearing book sellers in the south
Chinese spies hunt one and all
Army of thieves , worldwide

Zhao Ziyang, where is...

Read more of this work...

Human being shell sleep no more,
Lubits has murdered our sleep forever 

Right up we must get to the hard truth
and not blind out the fact
that...

Read more of this work...

Author: Runping Chen

In his mother’s eyes,
The child is dragging her coat brim;
On father’s broad shoulders,
I am still weak and young.
Today, the swallows are trying a...

Read more of this work...

Author: Runping Chen

Here is the noisy lodging house
Where I cannot compose a poem in reply to Dongpo’s Prelude to Water Melody
Because whoever can hardly
Bear the...

Read more of this work...

That was the worthiest step and decision
our pressing  to US for its airbase in Manas  expelling
from our land. The politic so vexed
so self-destructive...

Read more of this work...

The tinted walls’ filled with paintings -
Max, Bull, Fanch, Chen and Noah.
The mantel, shelves, tabletops cleared
to be lemon-dusted and windex-spritzed.

Company’s coming. Lots to be done.
Blinds...

Read more of this work...

Once worked with a lady named Shirley Chen
Nice to get reacquainted with this sweetie from back then
And the rest of the group 
As we shared...

Read more of this work...

Victories In China
14th and 15th Nov 2015 are days for avid badminton fans the world over to remember,
Somewhere over there in Fuchou, who cares where...

Read more of this work...

Author: Runping Chen

Here arrived the strange way station
And the train was like a long snake,
Leaning on the small platform. The dawn was at the scene
While...

Read more of this work...

When Rico said, Thirty days will go by
and I’ll be forgotten after I die
I knew what I had to do
I’ll make a book for you
At...

Read more of this work...

Author: Runping Chen

Gazing at the yellowish walls around
I kept myself at the corner of the room.
Although I intended to disgorge 
All the skein of ashy...

Read more of this work...