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2007

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GU XIE , POET,  Guangzhou China
 

Gu Xie, member of Chinese Writers Association, born in Shanghai in 1960s, started his literary creation at the age of 14. He is the author of six collections of solo poetry, with over twenty long poems published, won many poetry awards, his poems have appeared in various well-known large-scale literary magazines.  The poet also writes fiction, poetics, prose, song lyrics, essays, travel notes.  In 2001, as one 0f the few chosen representatives nationwide, Gu Xie attended the 5th National Youth Writers Conference held in Beijing. In 2000 and 2003, as a member of Chinese Writers Delegation, Gu Xie went on visits to Japan and Pakistan respectively for literary exchange, where he gave a lecture Opening & Literature in Pen Tokyo Centre, and improvised a short v! erse Pakistan Pakistan, which was read aloud at an official party Islamabad. In 2000, Gu Xie was invited to serve as College Writer at Guangdong Arts College for three years. Since 2003 he has been working as faculty in Guangzhou Writing and Research Centre. He has also served on the board of the Poetry Society in Guangdong Writers Association. As Vice-president of Guangzhou Writers Association, he continues to teach poetry as well as work on his own creative writing. Currently Gu Xie plans to
produce a long epic poem.

 

 

Looking Up At Music
                     (serial pieces of a long one) 


                          City Pastoral

 

The Coastal storm

Stretches with city's hurried distresses

Always settling ancient days

On the ground curved by love

The dreamland is always filled with creativity

People keep on working

Just like immortal flowing water

Never knowing what bosom

The last roam will face

 

Who has designed flame

Who has thought of burning

In the very beginning as the smile of belief

We’ve lost stone-like thoughts

Under the lure of a beautiful trap

We keep feeling the magic of honor and dishonor

 

The voice growing up in darkness

Shuts its eyes

Before vulgar sumptuousness

No one will stop us

From recalling for numerous times

Our own guide


The piece of vastness

Comes from a spiritual grave

This lawn without forest and sunlight

Is the kingdom cultivated by your life-long journey

 

The ocean of soul, slowly mirrors

The saint poetry of death

Wish having left the recollection of predecessors

Is rising from water towards a cliff

Assigning to heaven

  The eidolon needed by human posterity

 

Wash away tolerance and doubt with hope

Here, we will learn, with hope

To dress up icy life 

Weak love, will

Predict us that

Even if wandering

Even if lacking in the flounder of speech

You should remain awed

To happiness

Bricks
and problems

Within the breath of gurgling flowing water

Will eventually die away like July

Move the house to the riverside

Once you face tender rushing feelings all day long

You will wish no more to spend time

Fancying food and women

 

History has concealed its body

Different vanity

In different space, along with all original inquiry

Has gone to sleep quietly

Gentle night dews start to float

That’s the dance of another power

No prejudice can behold

That’s each gloomy cell

Capable of illuminating us

With its own stage in oblivion

In varied
mazes

You will recognize today

That not all roads

Are only at the far end of beautiful bright clouds

Between desolateness and shadows

The eyes unable to breathe, sometimes

Are more likely to be shone by God and truth

 
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2. Late Age of Industry

 

With the finalization of its design out of scorching torture                          

Steel accomplishes its dream beyond human expectation                            

All around you, is beverage with a hundred year innermost being                  

In front of an expression almost of oxygen clearness                                     

Honesty, in gentleness

Erected by structuralism

Has become for times

A murderee of covetously eyeing height

Internal organs of each age

Gather here with the most outstanding promise

When the palpus of kids’ blood

Happens to caress by sheer coincidence

An enormous tobacco advertisement

The world’s goodness and virtue 

Change right off into vacuum, and into

A wail after the faxed passion

 

No one should have felt strange about this

All remains of humanity

Are still true

Infinite desire has passed through years

And on the subway belonging to the end of the century

In an urgency ignorant of chastity

Is waiting for the skin

Carefully arranged by the multitude

And for warriors with osteoporosis to come

This part of sky above the head

Remains a thick forest grown with tips of tongue

All the azure is

Being disguised

Prosperously

By the index in high fever 

An auction gavel consolidates step by step

A set of spiritual food at the conclusion of cold war

Transplants afresh

With surreptitious value

Into the body demanding consumption

 

While balance, the one we’ve been longing for

Can only find

An online consideration at a shopping center

 

All books

Cannot return to childhood

You seem to never have had past

Humanity seems to have never had land and flowers

A lonely eagle is exhaustedly hovering over a viaduct

In its firm departure with a back look

Still expecting its heavy down-look

Can spell out the meaning

Of some creation and torture

From critics’ deficient technical terms

 

A love letter is already nonexistent

Just like the day when

One can use no more noun explanation

To measure

Collections to the mind

The only thing we can do

Is to confide with loneliness

A refusal of consumption

A sadness invisible

To a sexual game

 

Within others’ life we rush back and forth

On pigeons flied by coup and evil teachings

We are destined

To keep a dialogue through frail nature with shadows

All day long in front of a television

And to converse once more

By wet fingers

With a supposed devil or angel 

The blade of civilization

Is always

So sharp

Who can sprinkle history with perfume

Because of the counting-down

   And change bulgy price

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