Porcelain: Hollow

Of ripped porcelain
its broken pieces
Killing fornlorn lovesickness
like soft blades

You claim eternal joy:
with double Hudie vases
"as if nymphs and men
merge into one flesh
laying
under the age of innocence
Or two Hudies:
weaving dances in the wind
bound into happiness's slavery

And your dragon moonflask:
garnished with imperial glazes
cherished in sophisication's grandeurs
but my enclave of tears
bleeding so softly
in your trapped kingdom of art

Of ripped porcelain:
your artifacts: weeping in vespers
for the hundredth massacre
of whitened hands, in reddened consumerism

Author notes

First poem after too many months

Hudie is the Chinese butterfly. According to Chinese mythology, they represent happiness and love. Lovers in forbidden love often transform into butterflies after death, suggesting eternal companionship and joy. It also represents peace.

Dragons are symbols of royalty and prestige. In Chinese myth such as Monkey King, dragons serve as emperors or guardians in celestial, sea and underground (as in guardian of a region) realms.