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Three Poems
Written by Chinese Poet, Hongri Yuan
Translated by Yuanbing Zhang

I Was Originally The God of the Gods

I shall change seawater into honey?
smelt the stone into the gold?
the bitter is namely sweet?
the sun is born from the womb of the night.
 
Oh, my God?No matter what if you are really the God
Oh, the devil! No matter how many tricks you have
today, I am neither living nor dying
I want to put you all into the golden tripod of time.
 
I am originally outside of the earth
I will leave one day
although I have forgotten many years
but I woke up finally today
 
From a little drop of water
the world came into being
It was originally a tear of mine
I was originally the God of the Gods .
4.30.2011

The World Is in a Box
 
The world is in a box
the little timeworn world
the countries of Lilliput
the President of the king's prime minister
those kings?premiers and presidents
those dwarfs in the scroll of time’s picture
 
They do not believe the additional sun
both like a diamond and like gold
make you warm in winter
make you cool in summer
 
Neither have they seen the sweet ocean
nor have they known heaven outside time
forgotten those gods who like mountains
are the ones the former ancients owned
9.1.2012

The King of The Diamonds
 
The sun was rising in my breast
I woke up finally
said goodbye to the night's nightmare
the world was lit up by me
this is actually the real me
 
There is no longer day and night
there are no longer newborns and death
I got myself back
before there was no earth and heaven
I have existed from the beginning
 
The world is just my works?
a picture, a poem
a symphony.
Give me a stone
I will turn it into the king of the diamonds.
9.3.2012