Anna Keiko

If I Were A Star

If I were a star

I would wait for you at your window at night

If I were a cloud in summer

I would soften the warmth of sun above you.

If I were the wind,

I would gently blow your face when you sweat.

If I were a bird

I would sing for you by day and by night

But I am but an ant

longing to fly like an eagle

seeing you from the sky and settle close to you

If I were a star...

Translation: Germain Droogenbroodt

Dawn Of Hope

The light of dawn

erases the traces of the night.

Relentlessly, time goes on flowing,

although I wish it would stop

like a picture fixed by the camera’s lens

because as valuable like fruit in a tree is love.

Like the moon ascending at night,

so you are, my love.

Whatever happens, wherever you are,

I keep you in my heart.

Since I am in love with you, my world has changed

for two hearts found a home of tenderness.

Sunrays play on the strings of love

lighting up the dawn of hope.

Translation: Germain Droogenbroodt

 – Stanley Barkan

Love

If you are the boat

I wish to be water

If you're water

I wish to be the shore

If you are the shore

I wish to be the bridge

If you're a bridge

I'll wait for you on the other side

Forever...

Translation Germain Droogenbroodt

In The Heart

I can’t see you

But you affect me everywhere

At dawn, at twilight and at night

You are the light

My eyes can’t refuse to see

You are everywhere

Whether I can see you or not

You are the unpublished poem

I wrote In my heart.

Translation Germain Droogenbroodt

Taking A Walk

Immersed by the spell of dreams

I went for a walk to look for flowers

and discovered a bright light

which lifted me out of the darkness

Anna Keiko

Anna Keiko, pseudonym for Wang Xianglian, was born in Wuyuan, Jiangxi Province, but lives in Shanghai.  She is member of Shanghai Pudong Writers Association, president and editor-in-chief of the Shanghai Spring Breeze Literature Association and vice president of the Shanghai Haipai Poetry Society.  Her poetry appeared in more than 50 publications in China and abroad, including in the "American Poetry" magazine, at a French poetry blog, in "Universal India”, in “The World Journal of the Philippines", in the "New Zealand Herald", in “Overseas phoenix poetry”, in “British translation society”, in “Canadian literary poetry society”, the “Jiangnan Times” and “Yangtze River”. More than 1,000 of her poems have been published in Chinese, English, French, German, Dutch, Hindi and Arabic. She received many awards. In 2019, the Silver Prize of the first "Zuolong Right Tiger Cup International Poetry Competition", the second prize of the Shanghai Folk Poetry Competition and the National Network Popularity Award. Her poetry collection "Deep Sleeping Language," has been broadcast by Shanghai People's Broadcasting Station. Anna Keiko is also author of prose, lyrics, essays, comedy and drama. She is also an active international poetry promoter. In collaboration with the Spanish cultural organization ITHACA, she publishes since 2018 weekly in Chinese the Poem of the Week, so far more than 54 poets from 21 countries.