Praise for Modern Poetry: Three Poems

Huang Zanyang

I walked onto the street

I walked onto the street

I moved the trees to both sides.

I walk into the canyon

I split the tall mountain in half.

I walked into a big river

I pushed the riverbanks to both sides.

I walked into the wilderness

My shadow split into two.

I walked into the snow.

Footprints were carried far away by me

I walked into the crowd

A sword was thrown into the furnace.

Noise is the sheath of loneliness

The sword's edge needs starlight to be reforged.

Snow has more patience

On a higher cliff

Manifest into thousands of spirits

A scorching hot kiss

Rivers wandering the earth

A crystal heart, piece by piece.

The distant mountains of suffering ache.

Snow has more patience

To heal the earth's wounds

A lonely bird call

A half-cocked steel cannon

A pair of eyes peeking out from behind the door

A sudden ruin on the street

 

A loud noise in the depths of silence

A major event is unfolding

It shattered into pieces.

with a heroic fall from a cliff

To redeem this broken world

A complete pure white

Fossil

The tide receded

The tail fin swam deeper into the rock formation.

Wings descended from ancient times

Starlight recedes into the pupils

The long night tore open the brocade robe.

Time freezes in space.

Like a fish hidden among rocks

Dragon turns to stone

Ancestors carved themselves into stone

Stone brought them all to

The dry riverbed downstream

Claws, gaping maw, bow and arrow

Chase and Escape

The prey has been digested.

Everything is eternal in stillness

delicate bones

It's a key inserted into spacetime

Turn

The secret is opening

in the veins of quartz

The planet's ferocity is swelling.

Author Biography:

Huang Zanyang, a member of the Canadian Chinese Writers Association. Born in Jiangyin City, Jiangsu Province, in May 1975, he graduated from the School of Liberal Arts at Nanjing Normal University. His poetry, prose, and calligraphy have won multiple national awards and have been published in newspapers, periodicals, and online media. His poetry collection "Boundless" (containing a volume of modern poetry and a volume of classical poetry and prose) was published by Nanjing Publishing House. He previously served as Secretary-General of the Jiangsu Creation Center of the China Artists Association and Deputy Secretary-General of the Jiangsu Youth Calligraphy and Painting Association. He is currently a member of the Canada-China Writers Association and Vice President of the Atlantic Calligraphers Association.