Taiwan Providence

As the sun sets softy on the Taiwan Strait Face the moment we have to face The sweetness in your gentle smile Shown to my teary eyes of fate Alone in the twilight of our days What precious moments we had Without the kiss prolonging the pain The feelings we will miss So strangely, so strange How darkness will succumb me in old age In endless books with blank pages How will I fill them? What will be my stage? At the end of the earth At the end of the day Didn't we have the love we desired Didn't we bring each other Higher and higher How can I never see her again In another lifetime It will be arranged I know I will see her with my eyes open And when they have forever closed Nov. 15, 2022

There is emptiness in my heart That cannot be filled By anyone but you No matter who's the thrill You may say my love's no good Not strong enough to feel But my empty heart knows It stays in you for real My empty heart is longing Longing for your tender touch Every missing hug and kiss Covers a gaping hole of dust The last night how I squandered A parting gift to save A brave man could use kindle To restart future flames But this coward couldn't take you Hold you on your terms That fire started uncontrolled Emptiness would burn Now I feel the longing days Everywhere we went with love Without a kiss or holding hands Now feels like just enough So when the dreamy bubble bursts And snow flakes fly in my face Warm sunsets with us sitting near Will take me to your place All the feelings and photos remain Being everywhere with you at rest Will make the winter winds warmer Melting my loneliness best Confirming a friendship of mutual trust That being together would do That forever f...

  The mantra of the air con  When I call on it to brisk me Wakeful eyes stare at bedroom skies It comes alive with wishing sounds Of the coolest oscillation in my head The smooth machine friendly bed partner When I'm alone with the light red   Oh it is winding up the spiral helix  Rising the whistle of excitement As I lie grabbing anything too cold To not let me fall through the soggy bottom Of lukewarm loneliness and despondency  Sharing the platform with freedom and liberty Going hand in hand with my singularity   How wonderful it would feel to wrap My arms around your wing'ed flaps Touch your goosebumped body As air con envelops us in a cocoon  Makes us smooth, sleek    Your breath in my ear not cold or metallic But pleasing and steady with regular humanity   The steady hum of the air con turns me on Back up through the stages I descend Cool air heights of the pen in hand Living in t...

  Plum rains won’t quench Lantan Lake, But typhoons will work it out in this year of drought. Incessant downpours will come so hard and long That we will stay indoors, Windows rattling, doors howling So much so that Lantan’s waterline rings, Like the age of a tree shaped vertically, Will become a memory sliced perpendicularly. As every inlet is covered over, beaches vanish. As the lake gets bloated. Spillway channel fills to the rim Tumbling down the slope to the valley below Viaduct useless for such spillage Into Renyitan Reservoir haphazardly Through a highway over the dam Then randomly into Bazhang River wham bam! Meandering water snake skirting Chiayi Into the Taiwan’s Strait, like a tsunami. Yes, that August deluge is hard to imagine In the throes of water-rationed parched Formosa One-hundred degree days of electrical strain In the thick and thin of life’s vicissitude, But those bends and growth signal change The amazing landscape ...

  How do I restart my hand machine When pictures cannot be deleted Stuck in my mind like loves illusion Unmoving nor going away Going nowhere until I make some space Change the location for better reception No about face w ith nothing to lose All the lights lit And no silver ball to bump off of Left with a memory before farewell The feeling that will dwell Something to see when I close my eyes Something to recall from afar Something like love beyond reason The only reason to come or go Like a crescent moon over my head It is hard to see unless I am prostrate How I wish I could be with you to see The illuminated ceiling stars That I will soon be remembering imagining  seeing you in my dreams    May 19, 2021

Some have a dog to keep them company Someone to go out and be with them Take her for walks or places to explore A place a friend would not disagree going Call her by name when she dawdles Wait for her when she is distracted   If I could rent a dog to keep me company It would not be fair to say goodbye For she would be more than a child or wife Till death I would need to be in her life A child grows and a wife sometimes stops Being a part of her best friend’s life   I have thought about how to walk with a cat Or a bird on my shoulder to claw me till home A turtle and slowly get used to its gait A hedgehog, fish, snail or mouse enclosed An invisible deejay radio talk show  mate None of whom would be a good on a date   I’ll go to the roof and drink with the moon Instead of staying alone in the dark of night Watching  one by one street lights turn on Another evening with no one beginning  With all the freedom a ...