TZEMIN ITION TSAI

TZEMIN ITION TSAI

MY SPIRAL SHELL SINKING

INTO THE SEA

My beloved spiral shell slipped from my hand

Just when I cleaned up my spiral-like thoughts

It did not sink straight the seabed

It provokes a spiral of water

It tries to blow out a last sound

Before the sea water engulfed it in a spiraling pose

I leaped into the water

Made every effort to rescue my beloved spiral shell

It was rotating in a rapid manner

Went deeper into the sea

I did not let my body spin with the waves

Held my breath but followed it closely

Until my hand touched my beloved spiral shell again

Cold and rotating pressure

Almost knocked me back

It murmured to me with melancholy

You should go back

And ignore me

Try to keep your mind from spinning anymore

You will understand

The sea is my home 

NCARNATION OF THE RAINBOW

In the past

I curled body in the corner of the sky

Covered colorful colors and hide half of the body

Only revealed the most beautiful side to please you

Oh! My white cloud

When you looked up at me

How much praises in that exclamation

My heart danced for joy

Certified I will never be left out of your passion

Prayed silently that the sun light can be slightly weakened

Today

Looking at your figure gradually drifting away

With The rain’s melancholy and the wind’s ruthlessness

Feeling of helplessness like a dumb autumn cicada

Oh! My white cloud

How much I wanted to call you back at that time

Only begged the wind which wanted to take you away

Let me incarnate those colorful balloons

Let me follow you

Wherever and forever 

ONE MILE OF SHARP STONE ROAD

Yesterday, that night is not yet to come

I have already departed

Through the secret woods

Small rugged paths across the mountain stream

Gravels rustling at the foot

Roadside flowers, I count it clearly

With the beauty of golden chrysanthemum

Finished the sharp stone road

To meet the man who stole my dream

Later, the old moon

was desperately lighting up the road for me

These sharp stones relentlessly through my soles

Embraced this clear pain deep in my heart

Lifted the remaining drop of courage

Drank a full breeze and mist

My old yellow dog, accompanied me, to speed up our journey

Dream to return or not

O, one Mile of Sharp Stone Road

With the breath of frost

From the bottom of my heart, looking forward to return to my sweet home

Can’t care how confused my heart

Escaped from how many night-moth’s peeps

My heart has really a fear of

what waiting at the end of the trail is

having nothing in it

My heart has really a fear of

what waiting at the start of that road is

that will never find the dream back again

RALLYING CRY

I faced

The unfathomable ocean I always think when I was a kid

Rallying cry: After all, when can I conquer you

Ocean answered me with a burst of tidal sounds

I looked up

I tried my best to come to the exotic sky

Rallying cry: In the end, when to complete my research

That sky back to me a whole slice of countless nebula but completely silent

I could only keep silent

Walked back to my own rental housing with my head hanging down

No longer cry: Try to persuade myself, endure all the yearnings on one's mind

Let my teardrops hanging on the hook tip of the verses one by one

Turned suddenly thrust

Facing the unattainable far shore hidden in the night

Shout loudly: After all, you can’t stop me

Back to the dream homeland which I yearn day and night

 

TZEMIN ITION TSAI

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 literaturemember. In addition to 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.