deep insight to life: "When your hands are free to hug,

your heart filled with joy, not guilt!" Holly cow ! what a thought!

"your heart filled with joy, not guilt - only then, come to me" shockingly true!

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我的五首英文诗在《中外诗人》发表了，这次能与国内五位鲁迅文学奖获得者诗人同期发表，纯属偶然，实感荣幸（胡弦，陈先发，李元胜，雷平阳，于坚）。I feel very lucky that my tiny voice being heard somehow, cheers! ～

Five English Poems

By Jade

If You Feel Lonely

If you feel lonely

make a tree pose

imagine yourself a rainbow tree

in a beautiful forest

Raise your hands high

so the tree touches the sky

feel energy flow to your feet

fill in any emptiness you experience

Leaves chant in the wind

a thousand eyes wide open

taste raindrops from orchids

hear flowers blooming in the mist

The sun glides over dark shadow

shows the world a hundred miles grin

breathe the life around you

who will never be a lonely tree

The United States in the Eyes of Mr. Zhang

At the age of twenty five

he went to the Korean War

as a military medic

braving the hail of bullets

he saved countless comrades

injured by US air bombing

Thirty years later

his only daughter married

a US Air Force Major General

she gave birth to

two beautiful interracial boys

Another thirty years have gone by

he woke up from the emergency room

in an American hospital

the third time they have saved his life

although they knew

he had no medical insurance

Birth Cord

On the day I was born, mom

you took me to the rainbow bridge

unleashed me from the birth cord

watched me swimming away:

have a good earthy life, my little fish!

On the day I die, mom

I would meet you again

on the rainbow bridge, in Heaven

reconnected at the birth cord

I would be a happy fish, side by side

swimming with you, to eternity

Heaven or Earth

we are one, always

Magnolia

I will wait

while you draw circles and dots

behind me，with your magic pen

use up all the colors

till I, all of a sudden

turn around

blooming in front of you

The first

Magnolia blossom of spring

with thick morning dew

Come back to me when you are free

When your thoughts of me

float in sips of your morning coffee

you see my smile in rose petals

and the music you play

come back to me

When your hands are free to hug

your heart filled with joy, not guilt

when you can reach for all of me

in the morning breeze

come back to me

Even if I have to wait for years

when your hair turns grey，and

your wrinkles of missing me

written all over your face

I don’t mind, my love

I will be your coffee, your music

your rose petals，and

your love will feed mine

come back to me, my love

come back when you are free

About the Author:

Born in Beijing and graduated from China Foreign Affairs University, she pursued her further study in both economics (MS) and finance (PHD) in the U.S. She is currently a tenured full professor of finance at an American university. She loved literature in her youth and returned to writing in recent years. Since then, she has written over three hundred poems, both in Chinese and in English.