- haiku by Anna Yin, Photo by ShiYing
Work by Janice Zhang, photo by GuanTao
Participants were provided photos/pictures/personal items to choose to write their stories or feelings.
Here was the photo Janice chose and she wrote a poem in 5 minutes at Our Stories Co-creating and Sharing workshop.
Window by the Sea
By: Janice Zhang
2017-08-10
I want to escape from ordinary life
And fly like the seagulls
They free their mind and soar
While the stars shine so bright
So what if I can’t flee?
Then, watch the tide and the heaven collide
Through my window by the sea
I , can always daydream
——— of you
And this gave us opportunities to co-create the following:
I want to escape from this ordinary life
And fly afar like the seagulls.
From dawn to night they soar
While the stars shine so bright.
But what if I can’t flee?
Through my window by the sea
I watch tide and heaven collide
And no one can stop
my daydream
of you
2.
Love Haiku Poems
By: Janice Zhang
Holding my breath
Alone in a snowy night
I wait for the sound of key turn
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Moon river –
When fingers are swimming
On a woman’s skin
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The moon is asleep
The cricket sound faded
Pounding heartbeats
Suggested to revise and Co-created as the following:
holding breath
alone on a snowy night
I wait for the key to turn
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moon river –
fingers sliding
the curve of her skin
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a dozing moon
cricket songs fade
pounding heartbeats
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七律 尼亚加拉大瀑布 by Tony Wu
美加边界此中分，倒海翻江铁骑闻。
巨幕低垂连异域，彩虹高掛串浮云。
飞流万载未停步，通贯五湖皆入群。
自古传名冠世界，谁人天下不知君。
骑—读寄，去声
Niagara Great Falls
8—line poem with 7 characters
Divided America and Canada in two sides,
Tumbling like oceans and rivers, loud as passing strong cavalry like,
Huge curtain falls down joining two countries,
Rainbow strings flowing clouds high in the sky.
Falling tens of thousand years never stop,
Group Great Lakes together of five.
Number one in the world since history,
Every one knows you under the sky.
Suggested to revise and Co-created as the following:
Dividing America and Canada making two sides,
Tumbling as ocean, loud as a passing cavalry,
Huge curtain cascades down joining two countries,
Rainbow bridge tossing clouds high in the sky.
Falling tens of thousands of years, never stopping,
Five Great Lakes rolling and connected together.
Number one in the world in history,
Who does not know you under the sky?
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Films and documentation by Hunter:
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- Our Stories Co-creating and sharing project at HSK led by Phoebe Wang and Tony Li at HSK
- Video interview: http://ccnews.ca/index.php/tv-movies/entertainment/item/6928-anna
- Our Stories Co-creating and sharing project at HSK for summer camp (Aug 2)
More works by Anna Yin
The Flute In the Wind and the Traveler by Anna Yin
The flute in my case could not wait any more,
she popped up and rolled out into an open field.
Lying among daisies, she sang the wind’s whispers
and mirrored the moonlight’s glimmer.
A traveler stopped for her song.
He bent down and picked her up.
Feeling her coldness, he cupped her in his hands.
Her song paused, yet her skin’s color returned.
For a moment, she felt his fingers melt her,
and vibrated when he put lips closer.
And I wanted to know what happened next,
but could not, as I, the case, was left behind.
A Compass Rose by Anna Yin
MEMORY by Sajeda Manzoor
Thoughts wander
Time surrenders
Sometimes it haunts
Childhood memories
The past whispers
It is the cycle of life
The caterpillar becomes a butterfly
She waits for the sunshine
When it touches her soft body
She turns into a butterfly
Flapping her wings and toward the sky
She flies high and high
Among flowers she sings and wanders
She enjoys her new-born wings
She thanks to thy Lord
I am no more a wiggly thing
I am a colourful butterfly
I can fly high above the sky.
Meet Dr. Chun Yu, an award-winning poet based in San Francisco, and Anna Yin, Mississauga’s Inaugural Poet Laureate, author of six collections of poetry and an IT Consultant; listen to their bilingual poems and share their creative experiences with boundary crossing. This event will be moderated by Dr. Shuyu Kong, Professor in Humanities at SFU and Co-Director of David Lam Centre for International Communication. This will be conducted in Mandarin.
在詩歌裡 — 遇见有趣的靈魂，遇見你。舊金山作家、詩人和科學家俞淳、多倫多密西沙加桂冠詩人、IT咨询师星子安娜，朗誦她們中英文詩歌，交流各自在詩歌中，如何穿越時空，跨越疆界，與愛和美相遇。SFU人文學系教授、林思齐國際文化交流中心主任孔書玉主持。國語活動(温哥华图书馆）
Thanks Dr Vivekanand Jha for taking three years to produce this Universal Oneness Poetry Anthology. It includes 360 poems by 360 poets from 60 countries. So glad to have my poem in it. I also saw other Canadian poets there…with good company…. Congrats to all of us.
Anna Yin was invited to read In Flanders Fields in Chinese 
to be or not to be