Poetry Moments--By Changming Yuan--United States

Broken Spirits

fluttering like tiny

black feathers, they are shredded

shadows swept away

silently from the bright spot

on the tallest human stage

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Seascape  

So heavy is the night

The horizon sags deep, deeper

Into the heart of

The ocean, where a new sun’s

Pushing the whole world above dawn

[Previously published in Epigraph Magazine]

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the chinese painter and the viewer

between your brush tip

and mountain top, you seek e-

ternity in the blank

while i am lost among thick

patches of ink blacker than night

[Previously published in Chinese in Singaporean Literature; first published in English in the Adirondack Review]

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Changming Yuan, 9-time Pushcart nominee and author of 7 chapbooks, started to learn English at age 19 and published monographs on translation before moving out of China. Currently, Changming edits Poetry Pacific with Allen Yuan in Vancouver, and has poetry appearing in Best Canadian Poetry, BestNewPoemsOnline, Threepenny Review and 1209 others across 38 countries.