1. "I Love This Land"
If I were a bird,
I should also sing with a hoarse throat:
This storm-battered land,
The river that forever rages with our grief,
The enraged wind that blows endlessly,
And the incomparably gentler dawn from the forests of dawn ......
-and then I died,
and even my feathers rotted inside the land.
Why do I often have tears in my eyes?
Because I love the land so much ......
2. Trees
Tree by tree
One tree, one tree
Lone and apart from each other
The wind and the air
tell of their distance
But under the cover of the soil
Their roots grow
In unseen depths
They entwine their roots together
3. "Fossilized Fish"
How lively are the movements,
How energetic are the movements,
Jumping in the waves,
Floating in the sea;
Unlucky to meet with a volcanic eruption
Or maybe an earthquake,
you lost your freedom,
being sorted into the dust;
after how many billions of years,
geological explorers,
found you in the rock layer,
still lifelike.
But you are silent,
not even sighing,
scales and fins intact,
but unable to move;
you are absolutely still,
unresponsive to the outside world,
seeing neither sky nor water,
hearing not the sound of waves.
Leaving motion,
there is no life.
To live is to struggle,
to move forward in struggle,
even in death,
energy is to be utilized cleanly.
4, "Tiger Spot Shell"
Beautiful tiger spot
What polished you to such a shine
What polished you to such a shine
Fineer than the finest china
Harder than the cleanest of white gems
Oval and smooth as a goose's egg
No pinpoint bruise could be found
In the How many years at the bottom of the sea of despair
Rolling in ten thousand waves
All covered in jade armor_
Protecting the most vulnerable life
I never thought I'd see such beautiful sunshine
5. "To the Female Sculptor, Teddy Chang"
From your fingers flowed the hairs
Like undulating waves
From your fingers came eyes
with sad eyes
lips pursed tight
From your fingers came a me
with my breath
with my body heat
and I was silent
perhaps it was unfortunate
that I prolonged my life because of you