TZEMIN ITION TSAI

TZEMIN

ITION TSAI

THE SWAYING SHADOWS OF

HIBISCUS FLOWERS

You obviously knew

My tantalizing face will never survive over tonight

Who will tell me

Why I can only have such a short youth

As true as your true love

Even if my beauty

Gradually withered tomorrow

Anyway

I was never at all willing to

Let my dark red flowers drift along with the water

You obviously knew

My heartily laugh will never survive over tonight

Who will tell me

Why my silhouette is no longer pretty and charming

Could it be that

You can’t wait for my beauty

Grow old slowly

Anyway

I was never at all willing to

Let my dark red flowers hang on the branches alone

Why was the drizzle always with a mist?

I really want to hide in the wall of someone’s home

To find a place for

The thought that has long been buried in my heart

Never worry about the night passing so fast

Never want to worry again

My attractive beauty

My deep laugh

My heart

Withered so quickly

 

SOFTLY WHISPER

We snuggle

Even the slightest absent-minded is enough for you feel less

The drizzle walked on air, the safflowers overhead played with shadows

You

Made your head held high

I

Let my face lean down

Let all the suspense in my heart went with even the nights water

Listened

The winds blowing in front of you since were so casual

How could you not pay attention never let her display ostentatiously

Why

Restate the past again and again

If you don’t listen carefully

To her shy and retiring reply today

Along the red mud road that cannot be filled with red flowers

And don't ask later

Where does the infinite yearnings go?

 

SINGING IN THE AUTUMN EVENING

The leaves on top of the big Phoenix trees

Half down on the ground

Half went with the wind

It's that slight rain created how many homesickness

Heck, this wetted soil was so sticky

As the call of mother when I was a child

Far and clear

The petals that left the branches

Were never really floated far away

Turn into the covered yellow leaves on the green land

That autumn rain fell immediately after the autumn winds

The mountains were dyed full of red

That shocking chirpings of the cicadas are ringing from all directions

Caused the Mature millet to keep nodding

The leaves of the spikes were raised high

But not want to hold a pot of wine for her

The slanting sun always did not listen to anybody's advice

Could only plead to the coolness of that night

Let me stayed in the flowers a little longer

Not willing to let the wind of thoughts be so casual

 

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 in 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 China.