Two poems, Yuan Changming

To depart (free haiku)

Means to move along with sunlight

& leave your shadow longer & longer

Behind, or the other way around

The Chinese Spirit: a Mythological Review 

    Unlike your legendary Alexander the Great 

None of us has come to conquer; nor are we 

To be conquered (even by God), let alone any

Human artifacts or behaviours, including science 

And tech blockades & tariffs. Rather, as Confucius 

Has taught us, we always avoid talking of strange 

Phenomena, feats of strength, disorder or sprits

Whereas we do worship our

Ancestors, especially those never accepting defeat

Such as the ever stubborn Houyi who persisted 

In shooting down all the nine extra suns as they

Made the world too hot; the determined  

Xingtian who soldiered on long after his head

Was chopped off; the old Mr. Fool who must

Remove the mountain blocking his way rather 

Than relocating his cottage; the simple-minded 

Jingwei who kept filling the East Sea with twigs

Where she was drowned; the devoted Dayu trying

To contain the Flood instead of escaping from

It in an ark as did your Noah, (so cute & creative)