50 miniatures

50 miniatures, 2020 

1 

Poets don’t suffer from poetry 

             Poets thrive on poetry 

                          WORD-BRUSHES PALETTES MUSIC 

Translation: David McDuff 

50 

Evil 

hatred, violence and inhumanity 

must be fought and defeated 

forever. 

The fights 

and 

defeats 

are not Utopia, 

but signs, 

that the misanthropic Evil Circle 

will fill 

less and less and less than 

the philanthropic Good Circle. 

I despise 

the apologists’ 

terrible defence of 

Mankind’s 

disgusting 

toxic green Evil. 

At the same time I know 

that I cannot 

save the world 

from toxic Evil. 

BUT 

that I can 

write poems 

to the World 

with my 心. 

 * 心 is the Chinese character for heart and mind, pronounced xīn 

Translation: David McDuff