CHEN HSIU -CHEN

CHEN HSIU-CHEN

PEOPLE AND GOD

人與神

I.

The people on both sides of the war

believe the same God.

The left side insists——the truth is ours,

The right side insists——the justice is ours.

Both sides face toward the same God at same time

to pray for the victory on the same battlefield.

The God is separated into two halves

and caught in a dilemma.

2.

The people on both sides of the war

believedifferent Gods.

Both sides face toward own God to pray

for the victory on the same battlefield.

The left side insists own to be victory,

The right side insists opposite to be defeated.

The war between people to people

becomes an innocent war

between God to God.

The people utilizes missiles to decide

whose God

is a real one.

BRONZE STATUE

銅像

1.

Even incapable of turning back

the bronze statue erects on

an artificially raised basement

and looks down on the whole world.

After mastication of history

for some tens years,

by now, a little bit residue

of memory cannot be spat out.

The bronze statue with nobody in his eyes

lost himself in the disordered time an space intersection

being in a daze for long years.

Standing on the turning point of history

the bronze statue

is a dementia old man lost his way.

2.

Tough

competition with mummy

which one would be much more immortal.

The bronze statue compares with mummy

the latter has laid down

the former sustains to stand faintly.

The one provides a soft strength

able to occupy  a position

in the famous museum.

The another is

still unable to find out

a place in history.

PEACH BLOSSOM

桃花

You said

nobody likes real peach blossom

everybody loves

the plastic flower without tears.

However,

I have been long since

and so far still

beside you.

Your eyes are busy in weeping,

anyway,

without finding me.

TRANSLATED BY LEE KUEI-SHIEN

CHEN HSIU -CHEN

CHEN HSIU-CHEN, graduated from Department of Chinese Literature in Tamkang University and has been served as an editor in newspaper and magazines. Her publications include essay “A Diary About My Son, 2009”, poetry “String Echo in Forest, 2010”, ”Mask. 2018”and “Uncertain Landscape, 2017”, as well as Mandarin-English-Spanish trilingual “Promise, 2017”. Her poems have been selected into Mandarin-English-Spanish trilingual anthologies “Poetry Road Between Two-Hemispheres” and “Voices from Taiwan”, as well as Spanish “Opus Testimoni” and Italian “Dialoghi”.nShe participated 2015 and 2016 Formosa International Poetry Festival in Taiwan, 2016 Kathak International Poets Summit in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2016 International Poetry Festival “Ditët e Naimit” in Tetova, Macedonia and 2017 Capulí Vallejo y su Tierra in Peru.