Memory Chinese Poems

Fingertips 
fall—
not like 
stones,
but like rain,
plucked silver
threading the air.
Each string
holds a hush,
a breath not yet
forgotten.

The musician builds—
not a score,
but the curve
of a heron’s wing
skimming dusk
softly...

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2025.1.28.
Chinese New Year Eve.
Tonight, all Chinese and Asian,
Busy to celebrate the lunar new year.
The entire house has been thoroughly clean,
From floors to ceilings,
In the cupboards,...

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In the large nation that nests 
The Azure Dragon that now rests 
There is a town with no pests 
Where ghosts slain by the dragon...

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Villanelle : Never political but spiritual the ancient Indo-Chinese pilgrim ties

       In Memory of the late pathologist (and amateur...

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Reaching out to infinitude 
when words have come to an end.
		Yan Yu

Presence, without;
the space framed 
but left empty.  
Mountains float
as a fisherman
ignores, wishing 
only...

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In my youth, girl students are always  shy when speaking to boy students
The opposite condition was also true and lasts through my half period...

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DEMETER AT THE CHINESE OPERA


So, I invited you to the Chinese Opera impulsively
Thinking of masks and dragons and triumphant mystery
I though it was time we...

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Spring festival
Auspicious colours
Painting town red


Reunion dinner
Grand celebration
Hearts aligned


Homeward bound
To gather again
Good times come around


Joy sings
Spring chorus;
Familiar red packets


Laughing faces
Jolly feasting:
Memory subscribes...

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We polished life's little treasures 
underneath the cranky red dragon
Fried noodles crispy and curled like our tongues
when the world was a mix tape of our...

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