Three Poems by Ai Zi: The Root of Desire
The Roots of Desire (Poem Cycle One)
Ai Zi
I am still, and the people will order themselves. I have no desires, and the people will be simple.
Confucius
Just a thought
Your own transformation
Beyond human deduction and suspicion
In the cultural changes of the 2000s
Time discerns your face
Wishful thinking
Make your birthplace unverifiable
Your surface silence.
Specific insides are arrogant everywhere.
Inspire humanity in an Eastern "Tao Te Ching".
Manipulating thoughts, the hand gestures of reality are self-evident
Muscular men
The power of will transcends history
The woman had a lunar expression.
Under your influence
Betrayed by worldliness and malice
Humanity encompasses your existence through the physical body
To comfort a life of inaction.
And in fact, you have a skilled hand at horsemanship
Behind the passage of time
People see you as being high and mighty
Shadows that transcend all things
Humans are deeply mired in it
Self-designed shackles make it impossible for your followers to extricate themselves.
And you remain supreme, exalted
Like a foolish and tyrannical ruler.
Violence by a country
Drive out humans bear
As the content of life
The Nature of Desire (Poem Cycle Two)
Desire means lack, and lack means suffering.
Schopenhauer
Like flying animals
you subconsciously
Flying among humans
Gigantic wings, gaunt head
people in a fulfilling life
bumped into you and injured
Humans infected with your plague
Become narrow-minded
In the realm of a philosophical proposition
Open gun and hidden arrow
Father and son turn against each other.
Love is sold at the stroke of midnight.
Nocturnal flying objects
Mysterious black-clad bat
Under the bright sun
No one can recognize your physique
Desire Intertwined with Love (A Collection of Poems 3)
People enshrine love as the ultimate beauty.
So you weave in
You don't believe in crystals and disdain roses.
Black claws through the root of love
Touch an imaginary crisis
Love appears in the image of an angel.
And you surround it with the aura of a witch
Your face changes often.
Slipping through the air, tangible and intangible scents
For years, people have followed the signs you've left behind.
From the countryside to the civilized city.
Clumsy behavior that is extremely consistent
In your predatory customs
Humans seem to share your joys and sorrows.
The price of betrayal is twice as heavy as the paleness of life.
And love still cannot escape your hostile sword.
Some people join the war for this.
Some people relapse under your gaze.
A beautiful soul, classic love
Cannot withstand internal destruction
Extreme violence
Breakthrough slow-paced romance
Through the changes of dynasties, people saw you
Above the palace of emotions
I alone abide by it.
The drive of will is irreplaceable.
Ai Zi Biography
Ai Zi, female, renowned poet. Her original name is Zheng Xiaoxia. She is a member of the China Writers Association and vice chairman of the Hainan Provincial Writers Association. Born in Hainan in the 1970s, she has published personal collections including "The Woman Who Seeks Gender," "Village of the Opposite Sex," "Still Waters Run Deep," "Flying Backwards," and "The Uncertain Relationship Between Poets and Poeticism." Her works have been translated into English, French, German, Korean, Turkish, and other languages. She has received awards such as the 2019 Cross-Strait Poetry Festival Laureate Poet Award, the 3rd Boao International Poetry Annual Collection Award, the 2020 Top Ten Chinese Poetry Collections Award, and the Hainan Literature Biennial Award for Newcomer and Best Work.
