. Tang Cheng Mao (China)
THE CARELESS RAINS WASH AWAY THE COSMETICS
The thunder has been dismembering the sky from yesterday.
Some classical leaves are falling down.
Some luxurious expectations are fading away.
The simple yet profound rains, in a pose of humility, Rinse off worries and anxieties.
The raindrops beating on the body give a pain that goes deep into the marrow.
The pain with depth is called happiness.
The clouds descend again,
Letting us have happiness and sorrows again.
The careless rains wash away the cosmetics.
Life becomes tragic, heroic and boundless.
The rains walking on the tiles
Are rendering the stories under the tiles into romances.
Standing under the tiles, you put life in a lower position.
What's concerned about vanity cannot be soaked by rains.
Certain things cannot avoid the rains,
Such as love and status.
Before the rains,
Standing is another fate of man.
And that handkerchief with floral prints—
So long as it slightly wipes the moist spot of your life, Your life will be much, much cleaner.
Bio: Tang Chengmao, national First-class Writer, member of the Chinese Writers Association, vice president of International Chinese Poetry Association, trustee of The Poetry Institute of China, chief editor of literary magazines, visiting professor at Sichuan University of Media and Communication. Tang was also the executive director of the fourth Chinese Haizi Poetry Award committee, general producer of the second Chinese Poetry Spring Festival Gala, vice director of the third Chinese Poetry Spring Festival Gala committee, executive director of the first Ten Best Contemporary Chinese Poets assessment committee. Tang has published literary works of several million words in domestic and foreign newspapers and periodicals such as October, Chinese Writers, Literature, Shi Kan. Several of his works have been serialized in newspapers and periodicals. Tang also received Spain's International Poet Laureate Award and the Chinese New Poetry Centenary Hundred Best Poets Award.