blue sky dream

by Yuan Changming

for Qi Hong

Behind the dance with no choreography 

I see the gracious steps and movements

Of your shapely figure in tune with 

An ascending spirit, where bees swarm

Into the spotlight as if to collect notes

Shaken off from your melody, and swirls

Sweeping through the grassland as if 

To emulate your postures in the distance

Beyond the horizon

It’s not my imagination

But in the dance I do see you painting a picture

With all the smoothness, tenderness and grace

Of your body in the heart of light 

As in the spotlight of my heart

Yuan Changming hails with Allen Yuan from poetrypacific.blogspot.ca. Credits include 12 Pushcart nominations & 15 chapbooks, most recently Sinosaure: Bilingual-Cultural Poems. Besides appearances in Best of the Best Canadian Poetry (2008-17), BestNewPoemsOnline, Poetry Daily and nearly 2,000 others,  Yuan served on the jury and was nominated for Canada’s National Magazine Awards (poetry category).