Delight flickering in the candelabrum,
my eyes kept ferreting your smiles.
The purple heart-stealer,
crouching silently in the darkness,
teeming the air with the celestial fragrance,
the leeway flung open with a joyful mindset.

With cross-fingers,
I prayed for the safety of us both,
shedding tears over our reunion,
The wind made the string line of tassel curtains
swing back and forth incessantly.
Hale and hearty as we grow old together,
nascent buds of the flower standing to relentless blow
of the howling gales
take roots in the soil.

A dragonfly stopped at the window pane lattice,
An emblem of our courage and perseverance,
The rainbow overarching the sky bears witness to the omen,
“After the storm comes a calm.”

The heartbeats we’ve shared along the way,
resonating with sweetness of the Éclair,
a raid on our tongue tips,
dipping in the honey taste of your kisses,
watching the marsh-rosemary in full bloom.

Besides teaching pupils with learning difficulties at Dounan Elementary School of Taiwan, Yi Jung (Jolene) Chen used to write scripts for illustrated picture books and poems in English, Chinese and Taiwanese languages as well. Provided given the opportunity, she would like to have her poems published by reliable journals and shares her poem with people around the globe.