Selected Poems
by Lostalley
1. Noel
I woke up
When stars fell on my mosquito net
Fireflies were dancing around the mast of my sailboat
The summer harbor submerged
With songs of seagulls and splashing waves of yesteryear
In the shadow of rustling leaves
I saw you
Eyes pure, breadth soft, body tender
With a ray of shiny serenity
Like a little Buddha lost in eternity
Countless nights passed
Without a hint of autumn fragrance
Yet I was looking for your footprint, your sigh, your lick
And your sweetest murmur
That would melt the hardest heart
Till one winter night when you bid me farewell
Without a kiss I grew so familiar with
I wept and wept
With no tears and no sorrows
But a heavy memory of those light years
When I was with you day and night
Noel, my beloved friend
Only eternity could set us apart
2) A Green Pond
A midnight wind blew away
My bathrobe, hat, flower and feather
The marble floor reflected a pinky skyline
I heard someone whispering in Vietnamese
From a distant corner cafe
With the broken windows and a shattered door
The rain started to pour down
Ripples massaged the age-old cobble street
A dove was nesting in an unnumbered mailbox
The stain on the wall melted to transform into
A girl with an ice cream cone under
A summer umbrella
I contemplated
As all the empty bottles in the medicine cabinet
Gathered to gaze
If tomorrow would be as treacherous as centuries ago
From the nest under the roof would emerge
A night walker
Swimming in a green pond
3) To A Bird
An Anonymous bird
Flew Away
The blue sky
Turned blue grey
I sowed some seeds that need no watering
And piled a few cobbles as nest
With a whistle
I went away
At night
Looking at the sky
I asked myself
Shall I come back next spring
Or just keep the memory awake
4) Silence
You
Looked at the sea
Than at me
Slowly
An ocean away
I saw an effeminate figure
Running through a crowded market
Into a nameless cemetery
Murmuring to an oval portrait
Engraved on the granite tomb
That I once saw in a dust dream
5) Spring
Spring arrives
Suddenly I feel
Sky and skyscrapers are softly collapsing
LIke sugar cubes in steamy coffee
Maybe unfamiliar with new toys created
By those egregious girls
I want to fly a kite
But the square’s sky is covered
With high-voltage power lines
I sit down in front of a convenience store
Crying like a naive tramp
I yearn to go home
To experiment a thousand yawns
To explain a thousand philosophies
Alone
6) An Unknown Night
Try to scream for at least once in life
Neither for victory
Nor for surrender
Just for tonight
When a trembling hand fondles a dreamy cat
Staring at the night sky
All I can see is a docile donkey
Swirling around a perpetual grinding mill
To eliminate the pride of ascending
Flies and eagles deserve equal death
Ancient swards lose like a hero
Modern pistols win like a coward
In the morning
I saw a whale
That committed suicide last night
Humans circled around
On the beach I keep visiting
Since when
I forgot
7) Air and I
Truth
Falsehood
Life
Murder
What dangles in the air
Tombs are grassy
Thoughts are mossy
Smashing handcuffs is for casting bracelets
Punctual clocks tell no time
Sweep stars with a broomstick
Thunders and storms serve as a thorough cleaning
With oxtail soup
Voluptuous nurses wash those impotent machos
At sight of it
I start to hand a diaper
Higher than a national flag
Bars, night classes, police stations
Are filled up tonight
I am walking along the defenseless trench
Intelligence is my revolver
8) San Francisco
Through a frameless window
Grey seagulls whistle at purple flower petals
An empty cafe blows kisses at the shadow of
Night dogs and bikes
Houses chained steadfast without street names
Slide into the bay with moaning and laughing
From perpetually semi-drunk occupants
Zigzagging is the trademark of a straight city
Love is a nice facade of inexplicable hate
I let go of a feather picked up at noon
In a small park near Chinatown
Full of old people contemplating their infinite future
I tie my scarf onto a cable car filled with strangers
And smile at a fruit stand surrounded by
LV bags and cheap flip-floppers
A waiter languishes in afternoon sun
Staring at a fleeting fog like Aristotle
Many curtained windows make me wonder
Can emancipations and ejaculations erupt simultaneously
The fading aroma from an anonymous shore
Strokes my skin like uncertain velvet
Without a word
I see a worn raincoat abandoned
On an unpainted bench
Waiting for a soaked heart
9) A Path
This morning
I saw two paths leading to an infinite forest
A bridge of rainbow would emerge through
Such a chilly mist
So was my heart yearning acutely
Nothing in the end
Except two fallen and broken petals
From a dead opium poppy
I remember how beautiful it was then
That is why I am so painful now
10) Love
I am the dirty lava from an extinct volcano
I am the unmelted polar ice from a sunken boat
I am the beaten warrior of a glorious battle
I am the unbroken dream of an unrealistic world
