A Poem by Helen Pletts

 

A Peom

King and Queen on a Lily,

All our white cups brimming,

Sweetly-chiming at once.

We are languishing, beautiful,

in the simple bells.

Inconsequential doves,

Deep in the feather-soft,

Of the petals curve,

Even our feet and beaks curl.

One of us dresses in ruby.

One of us is pale and sleepy.

Although awake, the red blush,

Does not rush us. Time sits still,

Beside us, upright on a green stalk.

Biography

Helen Pletts is a British poet based in Cambridge, whose work has been translated into Chinese, Bangla, Greek, Vietnamese, Serbian, Korean, Arabic, and Italian. She is the English co-translator of Chinese poet Ma Yongbo.