Poem Appreciation by a Literator
“An
Unexpected Day”-
Master’s Poems Contain the Secrets of the Universe
By Yiming,
New Jersey, USA (Originally in Chinese and English)
Galaxies
being fused together, the cosmos being an invisible tempest,
tipsy in love, the sun and moon forgetting their bashfulness,
the endless night swiftly blooming into dawn, a turbulent world
in this intangible maze, entering an astounding dimension, a
thousand-year infatuation from a single glance of passion, awestruck
since time immemorial, the earth aglowing, illuminating all
other planets, taking each other to the eternal shore, sweetly
fragrant breath perfuming Earth and Heaven………
a vast panoramic vision of cosmic wonder is unfolding, expanding
and has released a stupendous power that smashes to pieces my
mind and joyfully uplifts my trapped but expectant soul. Who
could ever account for such an incredible vision in terms of
our human intelligence? I am simply dumbfounded and stupefied!
I have always been thrilled and
enchanted since childhood to read anything that delivers cosmic
visions: Altair and Vega from Chinese mythology about a fairy
from Heaven and her husband on Earth; Lady Chang Er who flew
to the Moon; The List of Deified Heroes, whose heroes ride on
clouds to visit gods in Heaven; Travels to the West, with its
magic monkey who could make one somersault and travel 100,000
miles to land in Heaven; Promethus Bound of ancient Greek legend,
and so on.
Li Bai, the Chinese poet, has
claimed to be a fisherman who fishes “giant turtles”
on the sea. He would use neon as his thread, the crescent moon
as his hook and the wicked men under heaven as his bait to perform
his act of fishing. Heine, the German poet, says he would pull
out the tallest fir tree from the Norwegian forest and poke
it into the lava crater of an active volcano to write on the
night sky these burning words: “Agnes, I love you!”
These are some of the treasures
that haunt my memory. These beautiful imaginations have given
me nourishment and inspiration and accompanied me through much
of my adult life in whatever I went through. But then Master’s
poetry gave a shock to my mind. Where in the world of our humanity
has there been anyone else who has ever elevated poetical beauty
to such heights through such expansive visions of multiple dimensions?
There is no doubt that Li Bai
and Heine are human wizards. But, in terms of width and depth
of poetical vision, when compared to Master, the difference
is glaring. Li Bai and Heine are major talents, but their spatial
consciousness is still restrained by the relentless grip of
linear 3D space and time. How could this possibly compare to
a spiritual being of the highest order Who knows of no mental
and spiritual boundaries and is traveling with a freedom unknown
to human beings through so many different dimensions of space
and time consciousness?
Master has indeed revealed in
Her poetry some cosmic secrets that would gracefully give a
powerful lift to those of us who long to free ourselves from
the earthly yoke of the ever-imprisoning spatial consciousness!
