POETRY
Peach Blossom
—POEM by Chen Hsiu-chen
(Translated from Mandarin by Lee Kuei-shien)
You said,
nobody likes real peach blossom,
everybody loves
the plastic flower without tears.
However,
I have been long since
and so far still
beside you.
Your eyes are busy in weeping,
anyway,
without finding me.
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(Translated from Mandarin by Lee Kuei-shien)
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Chen Hsiu-chen
Born in Taiwan. Chen Hsiu-chen has published 13 books including “Non-diary, 2009”, “String Echo in Forest, 2010”, ”Mask, 2016”, “Uncertain Landscape, 2017”, “Promise, 2017”, “Poetry Feeling in Tamsui, 2018” , “Fracture, 2018”, “My Beloved Neruda, 2020”, “Virus takes no rest, 2021” , “Encountering wth Cesar Vallejo,2022”, “Heaven on Earth, 2022”, “Room, 2023”, and “Christmas Month in Mexico, 2024”
Chen Hsiu-chen has participated the International Poetry Festival held in Europe, Asia, Africa and America, and was featured on the cover of international magazine “La Barca” Issue No. 9 of Colombia, as well as interviewed by media from India and reported with her poetic career by media from Puerto Rico.
Chen Hsiu-chen’s poems have been translated into more than twenty languages and selected into several tens of poetry anthologies. She was awarded with Estrella Matutina by Festival of Capulí Vallejo y su Tierra from Peru in 2018, Naji Naaman Literary Prizes from Lebanon in 2020 and conferred the International Intellectual Certificate of the year 2024 from the International Cultural Forum for Humanity and Creativity in Syria.
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Recently by Chen Hsiu-chen:
Lee Kuei-shien
Lee Kuei-shien served as chairman of National Culture and Arts Foundation in Taiwan, now is the vice president in Asia of Movimiento Poetas del Mundo. He has published 29 poetry books and 3 memoirs. His poems have been translated and published in Japan, Korea, Canada, New Zealand, Netherlands, Yugoslavia, Romania, India, Greece, Lithuania, USA, Spain, Brazil, Mongolia, Russia, Cuba, Chile, Poland, Nicaragua, Bangladesh, Turkey, Macedonia, Serbia, Malaysia, Kosovo, Italy, Mexico, Colombia, The United Arab Emirates, Nepal, Kenya, Albania, South Africa, England, etc.
Lee Kuei-shien has been awarded with many domestic and international prizes from India, Mongolia, Korea, and Bangladesh.
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