A Garden

Written by C. Rawen



A lyric poem with healing power


Orchids, tulips and remnants of cherry blossom welcome

The breezy dawn of a refreshing rainy early spring;

Ever zestful pond anticipates rowdy frogs to come,

O behold! let the earth awaken as cuckoos begin to sing.



Owl and toucan on the branch why are you still gloomy?

Forget not that today is the twelfth day of spring!

Look at the carps silently dance while it's still rainy;

Forget not that cold days are no more here to cling!



A garden under the rain once is my old dreamy painting

Where I tended imaginary fauna and flora to forsake my hurt;

Be gone blues melancholy and by gone ever torturing,

O Arise! a blissful garden full of laughters that burst!



Owl and toucan on the branch what do you try to tell me?

Forget not that today is the twelfth day of spring!

Waking up and out of a canvas, we are no more in fantasy,

Forget not that cold days are no more here to cling!


Feb. 2003 Summer, Auckland, New Zealand