by Yuan Changming

1/ Missing in Missed Moments 

Each time I miss you 

A bud begins to bloom 

So you are surrounded by flowers  

Everywhere you go  

Each time I miss you 

A dot of light pops up  

   So you are illuminated by a whole sky  

Of stars through the night  

2/ The Softest Power 

What Softens 

 A human heart is  

Neither money nor honey 

Rather, it is a good natured smile of 

Some dog playing with a cat, a bird  

Feeding her young with her broken wings  

Covering them against cold rain at noon  
The whispering of a zephyr blowing  

From nowhere, the mist flirting fitfully  

With the copse at twilight, the flower 

Trying to outlive its destiny, as well 

As the few words you meant to say 

To her but somehow you forgot   

 In the tender of last night 


ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Yuan Changming hails with Allen Yuan from poetrypacific.blogspot.ca. Credits include Pushcart nominations andappearances in Best of the Best Canadian Poetry (2008-17) & BestNewPoemsOnline, among others. Recently, Yuan published his eleventh chapbook, Limerence, and served on the jury for Canada’s 44th National Magazine Awards (poetry category).  

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