TZEMIN ITION

TZEMIN ITION TSAI

THE CAT ON THE ROOF

The iron skin on the roof

Sun wanton wild

Stole forward, taking care to be as quiet as possible

As if afraid to break the soul that was dried

Ears tightly close

Can’t hear the softnocturne

Long beard curled up

Can’t feel the nostalgic feelings how lingering

Eyes can’t open

Where's the day of the spring

Toes are stiff

It is impossible to count down the rainy night flowers

Settled in that shady corner

Saliva in the dry tongue

Not enough to make the palms were lick wet

After all, cleaning facial featuresone step at a time

Until everything is in order

Meditation of my heart no longer confused

Deep in sleep

Like an innocent cat

 

THE FRIGHTENED FROGS TROD ON THE MOON

So quietly the moon night

A stroll along the edge of the lake

Look to the boundless sky

Water's face is so small

No need to receive everything to the bottom of the lake

Bended down and lifted the lotus leaf

That has been turned intothe mud in the roots

Night is quiet.

Night isso deep

Roamed with the frogs in the moonlight

The moon's guide may even get lost

So quietly the moon night still

Autumn night as spring, the water looks deep

The heart only used to read the moon is not closed

New sorrows underway

Miscellaneous chores why hanging heart

Raised head and strode away

Waved hand, no longer care about

Night was quiet.

Night was so deep

Frightened frogs bouncing everywhere 

THAT LIGHT

Long bamboo curtain struggling to put the black and white stripes

Sprinkle on the wall of the front room

As the light released over us from the summits of the mountains

Totally exhausted

But still can’t stop the windact wildly

If the wall is willing to contaminate a little color

Contrast would not have to bear such a strong impact

Who would like to paint on the wall

That group of oriole in the hawthorn grove

Who wants to be on the wall

Plug in the branches

Just came from the spring

Flat will not be so slippery

When the birds sing selflessly in the sun

That breeze will definitely be happy to help

To distribute

That silver bell-like sound

TZEMIN ITION  

Dr. TZEMIN ITION Tsai(蔡澤民博士)  was born in Taiwan, Republic of China, in 1957. He holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering and two Masters of Science in Applied Mathematics and Chemical Engineering. He is a scholar with a wide range of expertise, while maintaining a common and positive interest in science, engineering and literature member. In addition of being a university professor and freelance writer, Dr. Tsai is not just an accomplished poet, he is an essayist, novelist, columnist, editor, translator, academic, engineer, mathematician, and so many other things. His literary creation specializes and expertise in the description of nature, the anatomy of emotion and humanity, life writing, graphic writing, cross-domain writing and so on. He has carried out a number of educational research with the development of teaching materials in his country. He has won many national literary awards. In addition to his own country, his literary works have been anthologized and published in books, journals, and newspapers in more than 40 countries and  have been translated into more than a dozen languages. Dr. Tzemin Ition Tsai is an associate professor at the Asia University (Taiwan), editor of “Reading, Writing and Teaching” academic text. He also writes the long-term columns for Chinese Language Monthly in Taiwan. Many famous poets of the world through his Chinese translations and introductions were able to be recognized by the people of Taiwan.