Cactus Flower--

Cactus flowers

It has a face full of needles

Dream of a faint fragrance

Display orange

The anticipation of bees during the spring tide

A pair of searching eyes

Nothing can be taken away

I had to fall into the color photos

Pressed under a glass plate

The twilight sun slipped boringly

Not a single fruit grows in the heart of the flower

Not good at giving

Also not good at getting

1986.1.14

Chen X Sheng already has nine books of poetry, and he is very diligent and promising. It is planning to publish a collection of poems at its own expense. In his eighth collection of poems, there is a color photo of a cactus blossoming, and suddenly it has a philosophical spark, so there is this poem.

There are no rules for writing poetry, but it is necessary to have symbolic meaning. Reflecting philosophy is its higher stage. The cactus flower is actually very beautiful, but it can't bear fruit. (Because there is no pollination, a stem grows at the flowering place) From then on, some phenomena of interpersonal communication can be seen, and for a kind of friendly exhortation, there is also a profound ending of the poem.

This poem was written 35 years ago, and things are human. Looking at it now, I still feel very good. 2021.08.08