All Whispering

Before a poem becomes a poem,

A deer collides

In the last moment when the glass bottle falls

A scream! Butterflies scatter, white light bursts into flames

… Until leaves gracefully lie down,

A painting of still life

Before you become yourself

Lake waters stir, bodies undulate with the waves

Thud! A whale descends

The bed of ocean, covered with shimmering light

… Until the tide recedes, the moon sinks to the land

The land rising into mountains—

Mountain forests nurture, serene

Time tiptoes through, softly and steadily

In the silky robe，pauses, ponders, and tries to comprehend–

Your collar is blue , the world in splendor, everything softly hums

I hold my breath, listening

To the gentle singing of the spirit

Bio-data

Peiying Christine Chen (New Zealand):

A columnist of the newspaper ‘Mandarin Page’ New Zealand; ‘The Best Foreign Author 2023’ — an Italian Literature Award of the 30th ‘Ossi Di Seppia’; the first place winner of the 2nd ‘Literary Asia’ (Chinese language) International Poetry Competition. In 2022, she participated in the organization and publication of Sydney’s International Poetry Festival in Australia and received a ‘Special Contribution Award’. Twice winner of ‘New Zealand Literature Award’ (Chinese Literature) in 2018 & 2019. In 2023, she was assigned as the coordinator for World Poetry Movement Oceania. In 2023 she was interviewed by a state-owned magazine ‘Kazakh Literature” and published to introduce her experience and efforts in translating and promoting the Central Asia literature.She serves as a committee member of New Zealand Chinese Writers Association. Her latest poems were published in ‘China Language’ (Taiwan China 2023).