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 premeditatedly planned
The glint of bodies: naked, suited or adorned,
Down by the old soul (earth).
International terrorism at it's best,
Who is going...

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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 childhood immerses.

The shade extended my fellow villagers’ strolling;
Countless summer nights embraced people’s joyful cooling.
The huge and tabescent trunk held up
The...

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Confession
  
    Author: Runping Chen 

From the peak of soul
I carry a handful of clean soil;
From the rapids of life
I scoop up a ladle of clear water,
And mix them up together.
I searched and fetched the bricks of affection
To build up a...

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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 to dust

1/9/2021
Manhattan Celebration by Alexander Chen...

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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 he?
erased from Chinese history
where is the brave young man
who battled one thousand tanks?

Xu Jiatun, where is he?
erased from Chinese history
truth...

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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 our wisdom and common sense 
should not have been overestimated more
in certain crucial circumstances
when we  have got  access...

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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 fly
While I am also about to leave home.

At the entrance to the village, the bus is moving ahead.
Mother’s tears shedding...

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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 accumulated homesickness.
I sang loudly
In a melancholy.

In an avulsion, my voice
Sang to the top of my bent.
The tacit moon, 
crude and...

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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  and  depressive
from various points and consequences.

When all our ancestors
from beginning of times, edem and hell
dreamed unlock our region
for...

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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 brushed, windows squeegeed,
cobwebs cleared, Blue-teal rug vacuumed -
prepare for our grandsons’ two week visit.

The saddest task - relinquishing my books.
Of...

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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 chicken soup
Promised to meet same place in a year's time again...

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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 exactly that is there in China.

All that matters to die hard fans of this intricate game of rackets and feathered...

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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 least the cover will catch your eye

I decided to do this in case he croaks
It's a chapbook with his incredible...

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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 I was silently standing on the strange place,
Just as a lonely star on the night screen.

The wind from the platform
Drove...

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A star is born among teen bards
and soon he'll lead in Yale's vanguards.
Young Will Chen shines, a full ride won;
his language skills beam bright, bar none.
Congratulations! best regards!

December 9, 2022

AN:  Quadri-lngual high school senior poet, William Chen was accepted
full tuition paid at Yale on...

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