YUAN HONGRI - POEMS - TRANSLATED BY YUANBING ZHANG

Yuan Hongri(b. 1962) is a Chinese mystic poet and philosopher. His works have been widely published in journals and magazines internationally in UK, USA, India, Mexico, New Zealand, Canada and Nigeria. He has authored a number long poems including Platinum City, The City of Gold, Golden Paradise and Golden Giant. The theme of his works is the exploration of human prehistoric and future civilization.

Yuanbing Zhang(b. 1974), who is a Chinese poet and translator, works in a Middle School, Yanzhou District , Jining City, Shandong Province, China. 

Each Rock is A Potala Palace

​The sunshine is mellow wine
and there are golden palaces inside the sun.
Where a giant is its master,
he told me that I was his shadow on the earth.
 
I will still be much greater, like a mountain,
each rock is a Potala Palace.
And the epics I chanted came from billions of years ago,
there are huge number sweet homes beyond the Milky way.

They Are Waiting for You in Outer Space

​Let the soul bloom between the sky and the earth
Don't do nothing throughout your life like the stone turned into the dust
Everybody is born equal, the body is just a Mirage,
but the soul is imperishable from time immemorial,
more than the sun, the moon and the stars.
If you woud find yourself and the world would be also in your hands
There are huge number space–times in the universe--
sweet kingdoms everywhere.
In legendary heavens, there is giant's yourself,
those gods are your companions, they are waiting for you in outer space.

A Book of Rainbow

​That day I came to a mysterious kingdom,
where the wind was as soft as the pupil of the eye from the God of dawn.
A giant city of gold woke up in the depths of my bones.
The words of giants in prehistoric were just like a labyrinth of stars and a book of rainbow inlayed in the sky.

Golden Era of Giants
​

​The stars grow in my body,
walk through the nigh，
I treat the light as my sword.
No demon dares to dance around me,
the sword of light all over my body
will cut off the wings of the night, devil's head.
In the python's time，
I am a messenger of heaven – the king of the sun.
My smile is a ruby of dawn
it will bring golden era of giants.

The Man of Future

​the man of future no longer talk about love
the body of the man of future    
glimmer
and with sparkling golden halo above their heads,
the man of future come and go in the interstellar flight by spaceship
they speak a magic language
like God, create a whole new world.

Heaven on The Shore
​

​The water of time flood the world
only the sage walk on the water waves.
Man is the fish of dreams,
have no idea of the heaven on the shore.

An Illusion in The Bright Mirror of Eternity

​Every day is an illusion in the bright mirror of eternity.
You see yourself from a teenager to an old man with gray hair,
as if you are a role in a play.
And the peace of mind makes you smell the fragrance of flowers from the Heavens.
You recall yourself in outer space with a smile--
that golden giant and fragrant light;
the huge number of palaces looks lofty, resplendent and majestic,
they rise and fall, like a sea of gold.
Billions of years are like the drops of nectar
crystal clear, sprinkle the music of intoxicated soul.

A Refreshing Breeze of the Dawn

​I came from the outer space,
came from the giant city of the platinum.
My lines, words of the gem
twinkling with the future interstellar smiles,
made the wings of your soul to wake up from the dream
made you see yourself in outer space--
time was sweet as wine
the palaces of the heavens were as brilliant as the flowers of gem
the music was a refreshing breeze of dawn that brightened the soul.

As If The Stars Smile and Shine to Each Other

​I require new words
Black gem and Sapphire
To decipher the alien password
To open the mystery door of the soul base
Those people who ride the flying saucer
The blue blood runs in their body
On their planet
Every stone has a soul
Even the flowers and trees
like their brothers and sisters
Yet, they have no human emotions
The same as if the stars smile and shine at each other

Strings of The Light of Dawn

​When I plucked strings of the light of dawn
A golden lightning burned a huge city
The undulating hills in distance twinkled the ruby smile
Vaguely there came acoustic resonance of the bell
from the centervault of heaven
Who have seen that the palace was towering outside the sky
The gods smiled with stately grace and raised their glass
Female celestials shed datura flowers flying all over the sky.
And a large ship approached from another galaxy
They came from a huge platinum city
Their ships were much faster than the speed of light
Ever visited the earth billions of years ago
They brought new technology
To make the steel have a wonderful spiritualism
Their eyes can perspect the heaven and the world
Heart is as bright as the sun
And body is as transparent as diamond