The Food Poet
No. 01
I am a
Sweet and sour fish,
Roaming free in the great sea;
You are
Salt pepper bird's wing,
Soaring high in the blue sky.
One day afternoon,
You flew down to the water surface, and ask: --
"Between you and me,
Which is a better appetizer
For a bowl of rice?"
No. 02
Hungry
And
Dying
Really has any difference?
No.3
At the end of the story
The Prince and princess lived happily ever after
They
Both ate small cakes every day.
No. 4
I am passing by the world of yours
But
All your delicious food
I want to pack up
And take it away.
No. 5
If there's such a farm
The grass tastes like matcha tea
The sun tastes like pomelo
Sunny day tastes like mint
Cloudy day tastes like almond,
Then, I wish
The bulls and sheep in the farm
Taste like salt and pepper.
No.6
I think
Red and Green color matching is very lovely
Just like my little Chinese-English Dictionary
Little strawberry
Little tomato
Little Red flowers set over green leaves
No!
Perhaps
Things are lovely because they're little
No.7
This biscuit is so lovely
I couldn't bear to eat it
At the last
I couldn't bear any more
I have to
Eat it all
No. 8
My darling
I wish I could ride the fastest horse
To eat you
Could I?
No. 9
When I'm eating desert
Always wish the time stand still
Because
Perhaps at the next second
I might put on weight.
No. 10
Roasting live oysters
Steaming snow crabs
Salt baking prawns
Living in a house towards the sea,
With spring blossoms.
No. 11
It’s not I choose food,
But food chooses me
I feel so great.
No. 12
My math teacher is very lovely
And very black
Looks like a cute black bunny
But I can't understand math
After every math class
I'm always dying to
Eat rabbit meat.
No. 13
I travel to Szechuan to eat
To Nanking to eat
To Hangchow to eat
To Hongkong to eat
To Belgium to eat
To Italia to eat
To Mexico to eat
At last
I'm still the slim me!
No. 14
I say, I don't eat pork
But ate the braised pig feet.
Woman
Always says one thing and means another
No. 15
At the midnight
Cinderella
Was hungry
She ate the pumpkin wagon
The next day
Her feet couldn't fit into the Glass slipper
No. 16
My appetite
Has never left me
No. 17
Time flows like a river
Don't let it flow away in vain
Must catch some fishes
Out of it
No. 18
Now
Bride
And bridegroom
Exchange Onion Ring: --
This Onion Ring is a token of my love.
I marry you with this Onion ring,
With all that I have and all that I am
Response:
I will forever wear this Onion ring
As a sign of my commitment
And the desire of my heart.
No. 19
Been thinking to chop the pickled parabola
Wrap them up inside an oval
Bind tight with hyperbola
Boil and eat it.
(Poems by Dengleng Wang[王登棱], translated by Jim Sheng from Chinese)
