LEE KUEI-SHIEN

LEE KUEI-SHIEN

MY TAIWAN, MY HOPE

我的台灣我的希望

I hear your sound from the morning birds singing.

I feel your passion from the noon sunshine.

I watch your magnificence from sunset glow.

Oh, Taiwan, my home, my love.

The coasts have your curve.

The waves have your surge.

The clouds have your elegance.

The flowers have your gesture.

The leaves have your evergreen.

The woods have your burliness.

The bedrocks have your sturdiness.

The mountains have your loftiness.

The streams have your meander.

The rocks have your grandeur.

The roads have your roughness.

Oh, Taiwan, my land, my dream.

In your lung there is my breath.

In your history there is my life.

In your being there is my consciousness.

Oh, Taiwan, my country, my hope.

LOVE SONG FROM THE SEA

海的情歌

The sea has been inquiring

the emotion of  the land

to get response by the rocks.

The waves sometimes rush

sometimes retreat quickly

always embrace the curved coast

while sing an exciting love song

in sputtering

to the silent land.

The land accumulates the feelings in mind

to prepare a volcanic eruption,

a presentation of most flaming hot.

SUNSET GLOW

晚霞

The sunset glow is astonishing

as a message of  burning flames of war.

Is that a disaster of past years

or a misfortune in  future

or the foreign people over thousand miles

is suffering from ravage

orvictims are distressed in relentless torment.

The birds dispatch the news by express

and the ships bound for rescue in urgent.

The beautiful scenery is grieved

that soon be trapped into darkness.

LEE KUEI-SHIEN

LEE KUEI-SHIEN李魁賢（b.1937）has retired from the chairman of National Culture and Arts Foundation. At present he is the Vice President of MovimientoPoetas del Mundo. His works include “Collected Poems” in six volumes, “Collected Essays” in ten volumes, “Translated Poems” in eight volumes, ”Anthology of European Poetry” in 25 volumes, ”Elite Poetry Series” in 26 volumes etc. His book “The Hour of Twilight” has been translated into English, Mongol, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, French, Korean, Bengali, Albanian, Turkish, Macedonian and Serbian languages.