Love

is an untamable cat soft and sexy

seducing you to carry it in arms,

then, struggling against you, scratching you, its fine scratches being clear in view

–is fire wrapped in paper whose hot flame nibbles

the territory of the paper regardless of its end of ember

You cut off all the clues concerning her

you eat and sleep regularly, cursing her

But your lovesickness is growing forever

The West Lake

I still remember our first encounter It was going to rain

The dimples of your lake

were crowded with silver fish

Later, we corresponded

and embraced, like the fine rain the dense seams on the lake

How beautiful it was then

with all the dust in the mortal world

sinking to the bottom of the lake while only the loving couple rose with buoyancy

When I love you, it’s azure 

When I don’t, it’s leaden

（Translated by Yu Yuanyuan /于元元译）

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Shi Shiran,Penname of Yuan Shiping, a member of the China Writers Association, a contract writer with Hebei Literature Institute, has four poetry collections such as Only Darkness Can Make Your Soul Spill Out. She has won the Top Ten Chinese Women Poets Award, and the Award of Literature and Arts Renaissance granted by Hebei Government, Key Works Supported by China Writers Association, the Poetry Award on the Festival of March 3rd, etc. Her poems have been translated into English, French, Arabic, Swedish, Romanian, and so on. Her Chinese paintings have been selected for exhibition and collected.

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