A letter from China

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Subj: The poem form a chinese. Date: 10/17/98 11:41:35 PM Central Daylight Time From: fengjl@hzi.cnpc.com.cn (fengjialiang) To: Webmaster@poem.org

Please write a letter to me If you get this letter. I'll glade to read your poem and affiliation to you. I'm very sorry, I can't speak English and use internet.

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The darkness Spreading like infinite frozen fire flame Like the echoing silence of countless souls From India to Greece From the remote past to the future

Do not advocate or curse Not for salvation or eternal life White lily,blooming then withering Human shadows along the path of death-and-living A flashy appearance is enough The soul breathe in the infinite gloom And,with the eyes To hold the darkness

Lo, Who sees his own self in the night Who meets the arrow of fate,coming from afar and never back

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How many walls to pass across And samsara to go through Until, I finally reach you?

The door is open. However How could a drop come to the ocean And a tree reach the earth?

Dusty and sandy around Questions are completed during vacillation To watch the sunrise to the west To peep eternity through brevity Then look back Everything is as quiet as the water

So I return to you,Home of fire flame

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One says,the blooming spring Was shot by the icy eyes of winter So, dark clounds gathered To haunt the territory of life

How to use a single hand To applause for the great life

Heart beats the earth And echoes the night in silence Then vanich each to each My smiles sit upon the cushion of time The apocalypse comes Kneels,tap open the ground gently Gods,worship each other humbly File flame dances like flamen And I sing and praise in the voice of ecstacy Combination! Salvation and corruption Peace and mess Gods and human Life and death The wall,it's the great time to collapse The Dot overwhelm the space A transitoriness becomes eternal And I vanish to be the whole universe

In painful departure rises Love to sublimity Life flashes through the deadly inevibility Does not the twilight of dawn roar from the darkness so heavy?

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You are perplexed by the maze of being alive But did you ever desire to be living

You have composed lines of death But did fear ever gnaw your heart

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None.

Not staying, Not meaningless Not set of the rules of gods' god

Beyond god Beyond me Beyond tears Your smile from time immemorial,so cruel And I Can't die,nor to live Nor to go for nirvana,nor to forget myself Among the millons of dooms You are teh most detested one

Agree,to vanish tomorrow Why yes,to go to the Land of Ultimate Bliss

But you,lead me to the hell Beyond it, Beyond it, Why Should I take your the buddha of hell

The throat bleeds as the bloody sunset clouds All epics are overwhelmed by turbid teardrops I forsaked your own self my own self And death and life's selves But I'm still Tortured by the great love of devil by the loneliness of gods

Seperation,you and me Is doomed before everything really begin Each flashy desire Each fretful mood Are all the most pious pray

Give the death back to me!

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If the lovesickness,though heavy and thick Can't uphold the silent pain Well, Let if fall,so quick

Last night Whether a light drop of melancholy Flows into you quiet heart,so gently

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What an age is it: As nose slowly blocks the scope As skyscrapers gradually shade the sunlight Beyond the breath Who is chasing the butterflies,dancing in the wind?

Above the city Remote white birds fly across blocks of civilization With bleeding songs Like a flying Lotus

Seeking heaven at faramita Feeling greatness in trivia In the dirty circumstances Elegant souls erects Our heart,a seed of lotus

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Night,so thick and deep Who can give me another pair of eyes

In the dark The sound of tide Appeal to my name over and again

Tears and smiles are the same Pessimism and optimism,the same In the powerful darkness Look,the invisible one,the nameless one What is it that leads me Away from while still close to thee

Go,then For the remote death and birth For the eternal peace of hearth Tracing the sunset and rosy clouds Wander

<> --Mum,I lost my kaleidoscope

All of the blind people.

How to see you with eyes to say you with words In the night full of gloomy color Tears all on my face

Now Whose face,with no complexion,smiles at me Whose voice,with no sound,whispers to me In the vast universe Who is calling my name far behind?

How to walk close you How to watch you with my own eyes A mysterious touch in the dark A wordless kiss on the forehead A lost child Wakes up from the lost memory

Wandering for too long Mum,I want to go home

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1.Not Buddhism

The rattling questions about buddhism Dare to answer? When you face,a crowd of bald head without helmet

Dare to smile The power of it Will kill the sheep flock with electronic shock

To say,or not to say? Buddha says:let is be done Just for that mysterious smile of his I must keep silent for ten thousand years

2.Also Buddhism

Questions,and answers Implicatures Link together into a circle Suddenly bite me like a snake No way to escape So I bite the wierd circle back "It hurts!" Me and it,in one voice

Written by:WANG Chuan ADD:R.102 No.55-3#,Jiulian Blod., Hangzhou 310012,Zhejiang, P.R.China E-mail: Chuan_Wang@163.net Zhaoshifa@yjy.dq.cnpc.com.cn Translated by:Judie



-- Wang Chuan (fengjl@hzi.cnpc.com.cn), October 19, 1998


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