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By ??Moonlight Toronto, Ontario The moonlight, pours down, like streams it is time for our date, You are still on a foreign land Are you rowing? Back to me? by the milky way? I shall be listening to your paddling our dock is old. B Our wine is warm. the lantern is bright, by the window. remember? once upon a night? I picked up a moon, from our glass, Packed it silently, in your bag. <????> ?????, ?? ????????? ?, ??? ??????? ??? ?????...... ?????????? ??????, ???? ???? ??????? ?????????? ??? ?????? Background InformationThis poem is about an immigrant lady who misses her husband during the Mid Autumn Festival, as he is working in another country, and they cannot be together. Mid Autumn Festival is a day for reunion in China. A mechanical engineer from China, Mrs. ??Moonlight now resides in Toronto and works in community services field, providing services for new immigrants Mrs. ??Moonlight began to write poems, prose and novels in Chinese since elementary schools in China. The life in Canada has inspired the poet in her and she has become more creative and productive than ever. In the past four years, she has written a few hundreds of poems, prose and novels in Chinese and in English. These were published in newspapers and magazines in Canada, China, USA, and Australia. She was active in several literature websites, having posted many of her works, most of which are well received by readers. Her poems include: Tracks of Heart, A Serenade from the Desert, The Waterfall, Children of the Mountains, Phoenix Nirvana, A Foreign Moon and A Hometown Lantern, The Pyramid, A Song of Lotus, This Coal Mine Has Eyes, A Walk in the Snow with Plum Blossoms, White Rose, Fire Bird, Balance of the Earth's Poles, Flying Horns, Fire Bird, Blood in the Snow, Twilight. An example of her essays is titled Canadians Never Say Old. These were well received by the readers. One of her poems, Twilight, won a third prize of "Huahe Cup, 2007”, a competition of Chinese poetry with candidates from China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Australia, Europe and North America Mrs. ??Moonlight has been the Vice President of the Society of Chinese Literature Society of North American, the Secretariat of the Association of Chinese Poets of Canada. She organizes poetry recitals and is a co-founder and an editor of a poetry magazine, “North American Maples.” In 2007, she sponsored the Global Competition of Classic Chinese Poetry. It is a global success in the literature world. |
