All of you stay in a big golden cage
Discussing how beautiful the cage is
Complaining how bad the food is
Competing how gorgeous the feather you have
...
If I were you,
every morning,
when I get up and look into the mirror
I can see your face,
...
When I get up every morning
the first person who flashes in my mind is you
I know
maybe I had a dream about you
...
I Am A Free Bird
All of you stay in a big golden cage
Discussing how beautiful the cage is
Complaining how bad the food is
Competing how gorgeous the feather you have
And showing how amazing you sing
But me,
Do not have an elegant shed
Always disordered wings
Sometimes,
Cannot find enough food
You ridicule me in your magnificent cage
'You are so poor,
Nothing in your life
And no one be with you'
I look up in the sky
Feel the gentle wind
Smell the sweet scent of flowers
And answer you,
'I am happy
At least than you,
My whole world is not the cage
But nature,
I can see how the sun rises
I can hear how sea dances
I can get help from trees when it rains
I can know other creatures' life
And I can fly, closer to the sky than you.'
Dear Li Pingjun, t is nice that a Chinese poet like you is here on the Poem Hunter Platform. Let me hope that a good number of poems will follow suit. By the by who is this `you`? Hope the passion and power of poetry will be taken care of by you as you represent the titanic Chinese in the whole here. All the best ahead.