Anna Keiko

 

Anna Keiko

 

Waiting For The Bus

 

I'm waiting for the bus

Many busses pass by the station

They go to different places

But there is no bus to take me where I want to go

I am still waiting, from winter to spring

Nobody cares about the people waiting for the bus

They walk, or they run

I wait from dark till dawn

Trees hibernate and wake up,

So also do the birds

Did humans change in thousands of years?

Only a few stars have awoke

I don't know the distance to the place I want to go

I keep waiting for the bus.

TRANSLATION BY GERMAIN DROOGENBROODT

 

 

Time Is An Eye Penetrating Consciousness

 

 

Time is an Eye penetrating Consciousness

Who knows that the unknown has no love

Unless the soul destroys itself

No matter how many raindrops fall

From the clouds into the sea.

When the lips are full of graceless images

Then time is an eye penetrating consciousness.

 

ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY GERMAIN DROOGENBROODT

 

 

Everything Is Going Down

 

Winter is coming and everything is falling

Only the night is getting fuller and fuller

The pupils of the luminous sky are clear

They are apparently unharmed by fear

But humans are knocked back to their origin by the virus

Which looks for any weak body it can attack

Furious lips and teeth add to confusion

Desire bends the path of light

The image of a world wrapped in roses

Covers its vast ugliness of reality,

A deception called prosperity.

Anna Keiko

TRANSLATION BY GERMAIN DROOGENBROODT

 

ANNA KEIKO

ANNA KEIKO（安娜·惠子）once studied law at the School of Political Science and Law, Shanghai East China University, permanently living in Shanghai. Member of Shanghai Pudong Writers Association. Founder and Chief Editor of Shanghai Huifeng Literature Association and Chinese representative and director of the international cultural foundation ITHACA, and the Chinese representative of Immagine & Poesia in Italy as well. Member  of the Board of Directors of the Young Writers Magazine and Member of the Board of Directors of New Literature Alliance. Her poetry has been published in more than 20 languages in approximately 110 newspapers and magazines spinning around the United States, France, Italy, Canada, Cuba, New Zealand, Tunisia, Iraq, the UK, India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, the Philippines, Romania, Greece, Sweden, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Netherlands, Chile, Peru, Poland, Kenya, Mongolia and others. More than 1000 poems of hers have been published up to now.  AnnaＫeiko was invited as a special guest to some international poetry festivals such as the 2nd Chalkida International Poetry Festival in Greece, the 7th Mihai Eminescu International Poetry Festival in Craiova, Romania, The International Poetry Festival in Santiago de Chile. In Rumania she was awarded the Mihai Eminescu College Medal and received a certificate of honor at the poetry, painting and music event in Curtea de Arges, the King Bashab Nigo medal.  Her recently published English poetry anthology “The Language of Deep Sleep” has been greatly appreciated in China and dozens of foreign countries. The Chinese version of the collection was published by the Shanghai literature and Art Publishing House and broadcasted by the Shanghai People's Broadcasting Station. She was granted Special award “Best Strange Authors” section A of the Eighth “ The Colour of Soul ”International Poetry Competition in Sanremo，Italy in October 2020，and also  awarded IL Meleto di Guido Gozzano (Italy) in September 2020 and the excellence award of the Shanghai Citizen's Poetry Festival competition in 2017, won the bronze award of the First “Left Dragon Right Tiger Cup International Poetry Competition” in 2019. Anna Keiko has great publications ranging from poetry, poetry criticism, prose, essays, lyrics to drama, etc.