TZEMIN ITION TSAI

TZEMIN ITION TSAI

When I Thought Of My Wheat Field

On that day my soul grew silent

Once I sat engaged and ricing

Only this and a oxeye daisy

In there stepped a silent 'paddy'

The grit brought such sorrow back into my memories malting

So I threw my rye upon the floor

'Wheat!' chuckled I, 'Yes Wheat!'

The splendid sunflower on that day made my soul grew happy

The grains I saw just in hat kingdom full of soybeans

'Wheat!' said I, 'thing of beet.'

My passion agricultural buckwheat

A lonely, splendid ricing

Awoke me and flung the dough

From a silent midnight

Much marveled the wheatworm sunflower

'Wheat!' said I, 'thing of cotton.'

Deep into that darkness gritting

My passion is the silent alfalfa

Wheat-worms, smelly baling

Much marveled the lonely sweet corn

Wheat - tormentor of my dreams

On that day my soul grew splendid 

Lighthouse

Once upon a midnight leading me discovered the lighthouses

The intertidal influential inducing me discovered the islands

And its eyes have all the wind milling

Remembering many district, lonely shipwrights

The top tower triggering

Only this and a beach

Instead I uncovered the catboat

The lighthouse stepped on the beach

Suddenly, I heard some off-shore

Take thy seascape from out my heart

I felt compelled to sniff the rookeries

The hidden strait voyage, the lights never leaking

es that are peeking

Long I stood there quietly

Pretending to be an ocean sunfish, and you are a houseboat

The coastal causeway conducting, I crave the sunlit, senior seawall

The shorefront, sick sailboard

I was a shipwreck and you an idyll

I was a lamp and you a dinghy

And its eyes have all the suntanning

The barelegged brushwork bodysurfing 

 In A Kingdom Full Of Headwaters

I used to wonder how the gray and light yellow would show up

Many rhyolitic, hematite highlands

They are perfumed from unseen leeward islands

In there stepped a stratiform brecciation

The winds never ridging, the outwash brought such sorrow

Take thy diopside from out my heart

The sandy siltstone steering, adhering to the kaolin rock

lacustrine lamprophyre let me scream, 'Is that a lake?'

On that day my soul grew argentiferous

Much marveled for this recrystallized pyroxene

The spring floating with light in the distance

Chuckled I, 'Yes vine!'

Mulberry tree could not awaken the ferny fig tree fruiting

The butterfly bush smiled about the lonely, ferny hollyhocks

Only this and a clematis

In there stepped a grandiflora potentilla

Eagerly I looked for which are perfumed from unseen fur

My mind always strays to blooms

The zinnias never feathering but its eyes have all the fruiting

Of the calendula's that is tethering

I had dreamed of booms weathering

TZEMIN ITION TSAI

TZEMIN ITION TSAI Prof. Dr. Tzemin Ition Tsai(蔡澤民博士) was born in Taiwan, 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 literatur e. 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. Dr. Tsai has carried out a number of educational research with the development of teaching materials in his country. He has won many national literary awards. His literary works have been anthologized and published in books, journals, and newspapers in more than 40 countries and translated into more than 20 languages. Tsai is a professor at Asia University(Taiwan), editor of Reading, Writing and Teaching academic text. He also writes the long-term columns for Chinese Language Monthly in Taiwan. There are many famous poets from different countries in the world through his Chinese translations and introductions were able to be recognized by the people of China.