Yang Chi-chu
Yang Chi-chu, born in Taiwan, is a poet, critic, and editor. She holds Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, and has published 7 poetry books, such as Tamsui in 2018, Farewell for Reunion in 2019 and Winter Strolled on the Haiku in 2020. She participated 2014 ‘Tras las Huellas del Poeta’ International poetry meeting in Chile, Formosa International Poetry Festival in Tamsui, Taiwan, from 2016 to 2022, and 2017 Capulí Vallejo y Su Tierra in Peru.
Merry-go-rounds
They’re whirling children’s dream
In a wonderful amusement park
Wooden horses go round and round
Forests are withering away
The age of cutting trees
Is seemingly an age of living in a Wonderful Park
When the wind gusts
Smog, smog, becomes children’s gloom
Capitalists sacrifice land, trees, and air
In pursuit of economic boom
Smelly smoke
Is loitering around the world
The dream of Merry-go-rounds
Ends up killing skylarking
As smog goes round and round
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旋轉木馬
旋轉兒童的夢
美好樂園
木馬，轉呀轉
森，逐漸凋零
砍樹年代
看似美好的樂園
一陣風吹來
霧霾，霧霾，兒童的愁雲慘霧
資本主義者為了經濟
不惜犧牲土地樹林空氣
惡臭廢煙
流浪世界各地
旋轉木馬的夢
歡笑止步
霧霾，轉呀轉
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A Dream— To Khédija Gadhoum
Now, a persevering woman poet
Opened her “Terra incognita”
Reading lyric poems Reading the course of one’s life
Dreaming of Moving out of Tunisia Through the border
Using French, Spanish, English
Traveling in the kingdom of the West
Spreading the hope that Bloomed in the United States of America
A soft but sturdy Desert rose
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