Chen Hsiu-chen / é™³ç§€ç

Chen Xiu-zhen（alias Lin Hsien, b. 1960） graduated from Department of Chinese Literature in Tamkang University.  Her publications include an essay “A Diary About My Son” and a collection of poetry “ String Echo in Forest” consisting of traditional as well as modern poems.

        Reading / 閱讀

You carefully examine a leaf

whether there is an epoch thereon!

The mystery of each leaf vein forwarding to an annual ring

reveals respective prosperous age.

A leaf may lead to a forest,

and a forest probably hides

a password to open the world.

You deeply examine

a leaf

as read a Bible respectfully.

       Winter （II）/ 冬  之二

For welcome the snow

the leaves

leave the vacancy of

whole mountain.

       Reading at Night / 夜讀

As the night curtain

falls all around

I open the front page

to read  a poem

with lip language

silently.

That front page as white

as thoroughly,

I read it thousand times

even ten thousand.

The length of

one poem

as measured is

an entire summer night

completely blue

in liquid state.

The poem

without one word

fulfills dense and numerous sweet

your name.

        Promise / 保證

I promise

I dare to promise

I promise to you with my personality and my life

We promise

We dare to promise

We promise to you with our moral character and our prestige

The party promises to the people

The boss promises to the employee

The merchant promises to the customer

The man promises to the woman

The adult promises to the child

The honeybee promises to the flower

The wave promises to the beach

The wind promises to the leave

The love promises to the eternity

The God promises to the soul

Promise

Promise

Promise

The bloody history has promised to the peace