The Sky Is The Hometown Of Myriads Of Things (And Another Poem)by Luo Qiuhong (China) Poem by WorldPoetry USNB

The Sky Is the Hometown of Myriads of Things(and another poem)
by LUO Qiuhong (China)


The sky is the hometown of myriads ofthings,
Which in its eyes,
Are all its children.

Pigs, dogs, cattle, sheep
Are all its children.
Frogs, ants, are its children.
Flying birds in the sky and typhoon at thesea,
Are also its children...

Sprays in its eyes, are sprays no more,
But naughty typhoon; typhoon in its eyes,
Are typhoon no more, but stubborn infidels;
Infidels in its eyes, are infidels nomore,
But its stubborn children.

Poets in its eyes, are poets no more,
But travelers given to tears. It says: travelers given to tears
Are not infidels, hence the persons most solicitous by it...


Years Later


Years later, I turn into ashes
Sleeping by the network of big tree roots
Reincarnated into angel and lightning
To redeem some twisted things.

If you pass by me
Please do not be sentimental for my sobbing tears.
Assume that you see a woman living in hills andrills,
Who takes a zither with broken strings as a palette,
To smear the singing on the string.

If I suddenly see a hurricane uplifted by the lightning,
And have cut off the head of a demon,
Please do not be frightened out of your wits.
You need only to bring your sleep with birth,
To cast a glance at the lightning,
And it will tell you
The chord which is clean and clear.

It will tell you:
In its playing of the catapult of reincarnation,
This is the best thing it has done.

(Translated by ZHANG Zhizhong, China)


Bio:

Luo Qiuhong (罗秋红) , is an excellent poetess in contemporary China. Born in 1961, she now lives in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei Province, China. Sheis a member of China Poetry Society, of the Association of Hubei ProvincialWriters, and of the Association of Hubei Provincial Musicians. Her works havebeen carried on magazines and newspapers such as People's Daily, SelectedPoems, The Star Poetry, Guangming Daily, Yanhe River, Tianjin Poets, The Years, The World Daily, Time &Space for Music, and Yangcheng EveningNews, etc., and her works have been included into quite a few annualanthologies of poetry, and she has won some prizes. She has published a novelentitled Oh Snow, Where Are You, acollection of musical compositions entitledThe Works of Luo Qiuhong. Her representative work is Chinese Mothers, which has won the third prize for original musiccomposition; Mother's Buddhist Scripturesis praised as a work of deity, and is included into the collection of classicnew songs 2012.