Breathe Away

From Still Life, Three Worlds by Dai Pan (潘岱). Poem 27.

Sunlight enters his home, wait,
Life after snow, with sparrows, start,
Iron wire leaps from cars to trees,
Dead woods became birds,
To fly,
suddenly free.

Feathers sway gently in the net,
With blue coffee spills on street,
still wet.
Pausing the golden stream, to
Freeze silent figures with papers’ dream,
I savor such sweetness as morning gleam.

In the park, a black cat stands tall,
Breath the air,
away the hair,
Everything is fair.

Watching footsteps beyond the wall.
White goose rise with wings spread wild,
Leaving golden ripples, still in my mind,

Anywhere.

Cite as: Dai Pan, "Breathe Away," Three Worlds, Still Life, poem 27, 2025. https://daipan.ink/still-life/breathe-away

Still Life 27

Breathe Away

Sunlight enters his home, wait,
Life after snow, with sparrows, // start,
Iron wire leaps from cars to trees,
Dead woods became birds,
To fly,
suddenly free.

Feathers sway gently in the net,
With blue coffee spills on street,
still wet.
Pausing the golden stream, to
Freeze silent figures with papers’ dream,
I savor such sweetness as morning gleam.

In the park, a // black cat stands tall,
Breath the air,
away the hair,
Everything is fair.

Watching footsteps beyond the wall.
White goose rise with wings spread wild,
Leaving golden ripples, // still in my mind,

Anywhere.