Mingiao Darn / 陳銘堯
Mingiao Darn(b.1947)graduated from Chinese Literature, Tunghai University with B.A. and from Chinese Culture University with M.A. of Art. He has published several poetry anthologies including “Season Imaginary”, ” Poems by Mingiao Darn”, “ Triphibious Dreams” and essays ”So Says A Poet”.
Not Quite A Winner’s Toast
When the cup of sorrow tossed empty
In a crazy party
Dream refilled it
With sparkling bubbles of joy overflow
The crystal glass
Clear and sharp
Raise this tulip in grace
The start posture of fencing
To the opponent
To Yesterday
In gentleman’s pride
For a moment
Your ego neutralized
Bear in mind -
No matter how it end up this day
Or should it be you or anyone
Who would turn and walk away in honor
Be graceful
Like a gentleman
Generations
Here it comes!
The funeral parade tries to be professional
to play the hasty march
which derives from a popular love song
The drummer seems exciting
But the trumpet is slow and full of sorrow
The leader of the parade
Conducting with a fancy gilded scepter
Treading her beautiful legs under miniskirt
Like a trained horse
Showing off graceful figure
Gradually it leaves
Obeying an invincible power
Drum beat weaken
Trumpet vaguely crying
Finally buried in the noise of the city
Sound of a merciless river
Too serious is a joke
Too lively the dead is not
We Taiwanese realize that
The Sea
The sorrowful water
With a letter in a waif bottle
Not mapped in the chart
Neither in a weather report
Just like a dangerous man
Sometimes so quiet alone
Thinking, designing
Sometimes violent
Rocking waves sky high
Without a shore to crash,
The waves push and crush itself into fragments
The black tragedy explode from deep under
A sudden explosion of waves
It turns into white scum and drift away
What a beautiful scene!
With a sigh, it seems heard such a strange cheers
Again and again
It makes some kinds of mysterious melody
Forgetting the rise and fall of sorrow