chrysanthemums    Hsu ChiCheng

Who’s the one over there
Slim and upright
Defying the cold
Never giving her way
Steadfast and chaste
Unworldly and unconventional
Who’s the one over there

Who’s the one over there
Standing against the mountain
By the huge rock
Where grow pine trees
Deigning the world
Towering at her place
Who’s the one over there

Who’s the one over there
Whom I worship
Whom I admire
Whom I often want to know
Whom I often want to see
But who is the one over there
Over there

Poems of the World  Autumn 2013(reprinted)