Liang Zhiwei (China) POETRY

 Liang Zhiwei was an avant-garde poet from Shanghai, China in the 1980s. He was also an editor of the Labor Daily supplement and an antique collector. He has published 20 poetry collections such as "Awakening" and "Soul of Flame", as well as some collection monographs.

Human

Author: Liang Zhiwei

Translated ；David Wei

When was the Earth still chaotic

Humans fall to the ground and crawl on all fours

Wildfire burning in the mountains

Stood up with natural wisdom, you

Becoming the world's rulers

Human beings are too domineering about time

Imprisoning animals, plants, and spirits

And is too arrogant about space

Manipulating network electromagnetic waves

-Crisis of Human Survival

It faces sorrowful songs from many directions

Drifting of Human Destiny

Like suddenly rising dark clouds

Their love

Wildness begins, humanity continues

And ultimately attributed to a cosmic black hole

-Divine Abyss

(September 1, 2021)

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The Shadow of Returning to Hometown

My Shadow-

Reflected on the way back to my hometown

Eyes like leaves drifting and withering

And the barren grass and the dream's window

There's no more noise there

Only the shadow of the moon

Only bluestone slabs-

The dim light of the years stepped out

One day,

I can't walk anymore

My soul will also fall on this path

And return to his ancestral Home

My shadow will also take this road back to

my hometown, extending even lonelier and longer

(Qingming Festival, April 4, 2017)

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Snowflake

I am a poetic child who loves to play with snow

Collect millions of snowflakes year after year

Spread on the hillside, a bed sheet waiting for her

And the two children without suspicion

Wait, wait for fifty years

Snowflakes covered the heads of both of us

She still hasn't come

I know she married Winter

But I just like it in winter

A lifetime of infatuation and waiting

Listen quietly to the snowflakes blooming

(2019.5.1 Tianmu Mountain)