TZEMIN ITION TSAI

TZEMIN ITION TSAI

DIFFERENCE

The seeds on rafts made of reeds sprouted

Floating gardens floated around like Chinampas

A bright moon hanging on the treetop

In the dark night

A particularly gory ritual of daily human sacrifice

An integral part of their culture

If the captives’ heads were no longer sacrificed

Those lost souls of the losers in Tlatchli

The Aztecs believed in sacrifice of humans

Corn, beans and squash being ingeniously cultivated on hillside

Water drawn from canals and streams

Terraces carved out of hill sides

Towering like a sculpture

Peace-loving nature

Maintain order in the largest empire in the Americas

Juggling Francisco Pizzaro’s killing emotions

A technologically advanced frame of The Incas

Approved on the southeast coast of South America

Aztecs vs Incas

Great indigenous civilizations of the new world

With spectacular achievements to their credit

Such a pity

Both were ceased to exist

These civilizations of Native American peoples

Even today

We should marvel at their accomplishments

And give us a fair idea of

Their time in the sun

 

AFTER THE PROVERBS

I bend my knees to lie down facing east

The direction of the rising sun

No any trace of distractions in my heart

How balmy and warm the gentle daylight

Warm my bare breasts

Besides feeding the baby in my arms

I only allow myself to pray

Pray for my husband, who chases camels trade in a foreign land

An early return

I do not save other ambitions

An ordinary woman

Carved stone of calcite snow sculpture depicting

Will not appear in my grave

Only appears in

The noble tombs’ walls around the Awwam temple

This does not mean anything

God of the sun I worship

In the case of

Our queen is willing to accept it

Solomon's proposal

To submit fully to the One God, Allah, Lord of the Worlds

I do not know at all

She is afraid of the war destroyed her homeland

Or the throne that King Solomon gave her

In the Crystal Palace

I just want to ask

In the case of

Our queen is willing to accept it

Solomon's proposal

To submit fully to the One God, Allah, Lord of the Worlds

I do not know at all

She is afraid of the war destroyed her homeland

Or the throne that King Solomon gave her

In the Crystal Palace

Just want to ask

For a queen whose mind never chang

The answers of her advisors for counsel

How to be given relative respect

However, King Solomon's wise wisdom

Categorically will not like me a ordinary woman

Perhaps the Ḥimyarites faction's cavalry gave the answer

After hundreds of years

Just forgot to remind Allah

 

LIKE THE FLAME BE SEPARATED

Dense hilly rain forests blocking high in front of my eyes

Home of the Bengal tiger,

Covering my unreachable attempts,

Screening out my inevitable myth,

In the profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse of Gitanjali

From now on, I doubt if I can

Then light step in that spiritual and mercurial poetry of the Bard of Bengal

The Home and the World

Unnatural contemplation indulge in naturalism

Peripatetic littérateur owes me an answer

When the north wind blows to the surface of the sea,

I unfold my tempted wings in time,

Quest for knowledge so intense even under a street light

Maybe wait until the north wind of the Bay of Bengal blows again,

Jarul boat will be far to near,

Seagulls screaming and flying around,

The one-stringed string and sad voice of ektara is calling,

Birds all around me shine,

I drink thy sweet, thy precious word,

I kneel before thy shrine!  

TZEMIN ITION TSAI

Dr. TZEMIN ITION TSAI(蔡澤民博士)  was born in  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.