Poem
Chen Kehua
Walking
once we moved in an age of ideas and signsdebate’s lexicon gouging at truth
we then entered a world of instruments and logic
trudging through wastes beyond hypotheses
and equations
before soaring into a universe of introspection and dream
unfocussed consciousness like the 3000 layers of an onion
of worlds-within-worlds
these days, we walk in an age of replication and chatter
this limited life forging away specially for the sake of futility
new dilemmas hatch from outdated language
as fertile as ant nests
“love is universal but we are universally unable to love”
light goes in straight lines but it also curves
time is delusion, space illusion
no birth no death no filth no purity no increase no decline
must we go on walking whereverwards or will
wherever come walking towards us next?
© Translation: 2003, Simon Patton
From: Manoa 15:1 (2003), p. 17
Publisher: Manoa, University of Hawaii Press, , 2003
From: Manoa 15:1 (2003), p. 17
Publisher: Manoa, University of Hawaii Press, , 2003
WALKING
© 1998, Chen Kehua
From: Engaging in a Complicated Poetry for the Sake of Death
Publisher: Tansuo wenhua, Taipei
From: Engaging in a Complicated Poetry for the Sake of Death
Publisher: Tansuo wenhua, Taipei
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Walking
once we moved in an age of ideas and signsdebate’s lexicon gouging at truth
we then entered a world of instruments and logic
trudging through wastes beyond hypotheses
and equations
before soaring into a universe of introspection and dream
unfocussed consciousness like the 3000 layers of an onion
of worlds-within-worlds
these days, we walk in an age of replication and chatter
this limited life forging away specially for the sake of futility
new dilemmas hatch from outdated language
as fertile as ant nests
“love is universal but we are universally unable to love”
light goes in straight lines but it also curves
time is delusion, space illusion
no birth no death no filth no purity no increase no decline
must we go on walking whereverwards or will
wherever come walking towards us next?
© 2003, Simon Patton
From: Manoa 15:1 (2003), p. 17
Publisher: 2003, Manoa, University of Hawaii Press, Taipei
From: Manoa 15:1 (2003), p. 17
Publisher: 2003, Manoa, University of Hawaii Press, Taipei
Walking
once we moved in an age of ideas and signsdebate’s lexicon gouging at truth
we then entered a world of instruments and logic
trudging through wastes beyond hypotheses
and equations
before soaring into a universe of introspection and dream
unfocussed consciousness like the 3000 layers of an onion
of worlds-within-worlds
these days, we walk in an age of replication and chatter
this limited life forging away specially for the sake of futility
new dilemmas hatch from outdated language
as fertile as ant nests
“love is universal but we are universally unable to love”
light goes in straight lines but it also curves
time is delusion, space illusion
no birth no death no filth no purity no increase no decline
must we go on walking whereverwards or will
wherever come walking towards us next?
© 2003, Simon Patton
From: Manoa 15:1 (2003), p. 17
Publisher: 2003, Manoa, University of Hawaii Press,
From: Manoa 15:1 (2003), p. 17
Publisher: 2003, Manoa, University of Hawaii Press,
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