Heartfelt: A Bilinguacultural Poem || by Changming Yuan

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感：/gan/ perception takes place 

         when an ax breaks something on the heart

闷: /men/ depressed whenever your heart is

                shut behind a door

忌：/ji/ jealousy implies 

    there being one’s self only in the heart

悲：/bei/ sorrow comes 

 from the negation of the heart

惑：/huo/ confusion occurs 

              when there are too many an ‘or’ over the heart

忠：/zhong/ loyalty remains 

                  as long as the heart is kept right at the center

恥：/chi/ shame is the feel 

                  you get when your ear conflicts with your heart 

怒: /nu/ anger influxes when slavery 

                 rises from above the heart

愁: /chou/ worry thickens as autumn 

    sits high on your heart

忍:/ren/ to tolerate is to bear a knife

                          straightly above your heart

忘: /wang/ forgetting happens 

                                  when there’s death on heart

意: /yi/ meaning is defined as    

                    a sound over the heart

思: /si/ thought takes place 

                           within the field of heart

恩: /en/ kindness is 

                            a reliance on the heart

Image Credit: © Fizdi — Heartfelt

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MEET THE POET:

YUAN CHANGMING hails with Allen Yuan from poetrypacific.blogspot.ca. Credits include eleven Pushcart nominations besides appearances in Best of the Best Canadian Poetry (2008-17) & BestNewPoemsOnline, among nearly 1900 others. Recently, Yuan published his eleventh chapbook Limerence, and served on the jury for Canada's 44th National Magazine Awards (poetry category).