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In addition to being a novelist, Hong Xingfu is also a poet. He once co-organized the “Houlang Poetry Club” with Su Shaolian and Xiao Wenhuang as well as participated in the Poets’ Quarterly. Hong Xingfu’s poems often use words related to the seasons and the nature, expressing his feelings about the elapsing of time and emotions.

Houlang Poetry Bimonthly Newsletter Issue 9 ｜Inside, there is a poem, “Autumn Wind Slim,” written by Hong Xingfu under the pen name, Situ Men. Founded on September 28, 1972. (Donated by Lin Biyun / From the National Museum of Taiwan Literature permanent collection)

Asking for Directions

After you left, in this life and this world
I can no longer see the blush of the roses.
All vows have been mottled.
All smiles have turned cold.
In this life and this world, how can I
Find your lost shadow in my tears.

So be it. You are the white cloud. You are wandering.
You are all you said you were.

At this moment, I have painted each footprint with a starry color.
I ask every little stone on the street for directions.
“Excuse me.
Where is the mountain gate for me to return to?”
Where are you?

Hong Xingfu’s Complete Works - New Poetry｜Edited by Huang Wuzhong and Ruan Meihui, published by the Changhua County Cultural Bureau in 2001, a total of nine volumes. (Donated by Lin Biyun / From the National Museum of Taiwan Literature permanent collection)

Ability

After Nirvana, my toes will face the end of the mountains.
That is the harbor you are about to cross,
And I am thinking about you in the small building where the rain about to come.
In my thought, you,
Are riding a horse galloping through your hometown’s bright green
Grassland.

You and I are both as transient as clouds and smokes.
Where is home and where is the cold fountain that we are able to fetch?

We will all fall with the falling flowers.
At that time,
Will you remember this spring
and this rain of flowers?

Then, listen to me!
While flowers are blossoming,
Let’s toward the deep forest
Cast our promise that will arrive soon.

Hong Xingfu’s Complete Works - New Poetry｜Edited by Huang Wuzhong and Ruan Meihui, published by the Changhua County Cultural Bureau in 2001, a total of nine volumes. (Donated by Lin Biyun / From the National Museum of Taiwan Literature permanent collection)