{ Song Xiaoxian: Love. }

[delga]

Love
by Song Xiaoxian

what will they say
if our love
stays above the waist?
Will their childish games
ever produce a result?

but if our love
shifts below the waist
they will say: They have never known
that profound touching of souls.

Comments

[bessemerprocess.livejournal.com]

I love your poetry updates, but this one, this one made me go out and google the poet just so I could read more.

This one, of the ones of his I've read so far is my favorite:

Notice by Song Xiaoxian

there’s a large notice board
in front of the court
I hadn’t looked at it for a long time,
so I went up and carefully examined
all the notices
at first, there was only me
later, when others came along
I stopped reading

there were people who’d murdered for money,
drug addicts, rapists
I saw 10 full-bodied characters in bold type
those printed names
had already been escorted to the execution ground
and shot, the youngest of them
was born in 1980

the notice was posted last August
it still looked fresh, the corpses of the dead criminals
had not yet decomposed
and were set to celebrate New Year
in the dirt

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

Am going to have to bookmark that one; I've only read a couple of others. I saw 10 full-bodied characters in bold type; I love how literal that is, and how the metaphor is that literal, too.