Chen Ning-kuei / 陳寧貴

Chen Ning-kuei（b. 1954 ）was born in Pingtung, a southern Taiwan Hakka village. He has been a publisher and editor in chief of a magazine, and a member of Hakka Affairs Advisory Committee. As a creator for more than 40 years, he has paid recent two decades in both Mandarin and Hakka creation. His works include more than ten books of poems and essays, some of them has been selected into Modern Literature Series, the annual anthology of Taiwan poetry and the annual prose, winning for him the poetry prize from The Ministry of Education, outstanding young poet award, United Daily News Award in prose category.

E-mail：ningkuei@gmail.com

        Qing Ming Day / 清明時節

Someone's legend, the ancestral grave which we lose

Just in that remote hilltop

The reed like snow by one stretched, cold refrigeration

Unwilling this of ours is only the legend

So on of Qing Ming Day

We help the old and guide the young groups

Wish eagerly to browse, understand

Hilltop of that mystery

Yes, no matter like reed of snow

How coldly and deeply

We are determined with descendants

Body temperature, go to bake warmly

Vast time cold ancestral grave

        Broken hygrophila  / 破蓑衣

Hanging on the wall

Dressed grandfather

Broken hygrophila

It   spring thunder strike over 

      summer rain washed

      autumn wind rubbed

      winter moon cuts over

Now

It is hanging in my heart a

New thoughts

        Years / 歲月

Younger years

come from heaven falls

Pour into the mind

Deep eyes

Glittering water splash

Years old

Not shut tight faucet

Water leakage time

A little a bit

The wet dream every night