Commonword Blogs

I'm about to go on holiday, thought I'll put on two short poems relating to travel here.

(1) Night Flight (Boeing 747) I wrote this one in Chinese on my last flight to China & later translated it into English.

云端之中行,
伸手可摘星.
仙境在窗外,
我在仙境中.

Striding the summits of clouds,
I am in and of a magic world.
But for a pane of glass,
I could pluck the buckle
from Orion’s belt.

(2)Travel

Passport, carousel,
Foreign exchange.
He’s arrived.

So now the brilliant air,
The strange tongues
And the pungent food