A Generation
GU Cheng (1979)
Dark night gives me dark eyes
And I use them to search for light
A Snap
GU Cheng (1979)
Sunrays
After a flash in the sky
Are buried again by clouds
Storm develop
The negative of my soul
Awakening
GU Cheng
Gum from trees
Slow teardrops dripping
Glue together the shards of my heart
What locks us in love
Is not the joy in an orgy
But the pain we share
Far and Close
GU Cheng (1980)
You
Look at me for a while
Look at clouds for a while
I feel you
So far away when you look at me
So close when you look at clouds
A Walk in the Rain
GU Cheng (1980)
Clouds, gray upon gray
Cannot be washed clean
We open our umbrella
Instantly spreading darkness over the sky
Beneath this slow floating night
Two pairs of double stars
Appear to have no fixed orbits
Now close by, now apart
Arcs
GU Cheng (1980)
Birds in strong wind
Suddenly turn directions
A kid bends
To pick up a coin
Vines extend their antennae
Of filament, to touch fantasy
Sea waves ebb
And arc up their ridges