TZEMIN ITION TSAI

TZEMIN ITION TSAI

LOVE OF CORAL REEFS

Night falls completely silent

And the sea is so close

The waves are like dumb crickets

Impact on the sand around me

More quietly roll away

Fragments of my heart

I can fine nothing more quiet than this

Even among the coral reefs

Seaweed swaying

Teasing charming dance

Do not want to let go of

Those flustering of my heart

The moon rises without any hints

Clouds tacitly drift aside

Would rather let the light fall on the waves

But have no intention of counting the chaos that occupy my heart

To explore the icy sea in barefoot

The persistence of coral reefs reminded

My painful touch

But no sound to warn me

The blue of the sea water will surely dye my heart

Forced dyeing

My heart which was originally bloody red

 

SHY AGAIN

There is one kind of daisy

Her name is Paris

Growing on the rugged hillside paths

A blossoming spray white touched with yellow

That white penetrated the cry of Spring

Forgot all other daisies

All open in autumn

Forgot all other daisies

Not belonging to this rippling before into the summer

There is a cherry

Her name is winter cherry

Growing on the grassland up high in the sky

A blossoming spray white touched with yellow

That white outweighed the winter's freezing

Forgot all other cherries

All show faces in the Spring

Forget all other cherries

Has already let withered flowers falling all over the ground

Spring

With my heart full of poetic flavor

I went down the ravine

Who cares

That pink mimosa flowers snooping in the breeze

Shy or not shy

After driving the cold gradually away

I only care

Who will

Fill the last mile homeward road with flowers?

 

THE SONG OF OBSIDIAN

If the ancient sea breeze

Once boasted the sails on your boat.

You must also faced

That drifting fate

From one island to the next

Archaeological trajectory

Want to convince

Let we believe

There are same kinds of bloods in our bodies

Just thousands of years ago

Not guided by Obsidian

And tracking in the footprints of the ocean

You used to be in my hometown

That beautiful island

Taiwan

If I never know what you have done

When you were a visitor to my hometown

I want to wave with you

Trying to be in non-ceramic artefacts

Looking for overlap of styles between you and me

Refusing to be looted by ocean currents

 

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.