Hi @kaixin

Sorry it took me a while to respond to your comment, I really do appreciate your interest in my poetry 🙂 it's just that I'm ill at the moment (and have another big thing 'In Real Life' I've got to deal with) so I might be slow to getting on hive much for a few weeks.

I guess it must seem that Marx is frowned upon but I don't think this is the case as you think.

It is said that the writings on Marxism are still regarded as the banned books in the west world, isn't it？

You can find and read Carl Marx's books in any library, and I guess that some people consider that only left-wing people read Marx and they are all bad people, this is all just the dance of politics. Personally, I've read some Marx many years ago, and think that the ideas contained in communism aren't the problem, it is how various people have taken those ideas and applied them that has made many communist countries fail, certainly from the perspective of what Marx was envisioning. But that is just my opinion.

I feel that power corrupts 99.9% of people when they get a taste of it, capitalist, communist, or whatever.

Anyway, you asked another question which I guess was important for your understanding of the poem and to help with your studies of English.

I have a question. Would you please tell me about what Davenport in your poem means？

Davenport was a man, a successful person of industry in I think the 1800's. And many people at the time admired him etc... but like many rich people at the time in Liverpool, it being the main port of the British Empire, his business was involved in the slave trade. This is why I use the lines:

graves in memory of Davenport,
and other kings of slavery.

Many of the rich at the time were involved in that disgusting episode of history.

For example, in Taoism, there is the Dragon King in the sea, and the Earth God under the land, the Flower Fairy in the peony flowers, etc.

I love what you share about the traditional festival that happens in China as a kind of Taoism Buddhism mix, and the descriptions of some traditional characters above.

I have also read the Tao Te Ching, and the philosophy of Lao Tzu Dao resonates strongly with me.

That nature can teach us how to flow in life, and that everything/nothing can be glimpsed in this understanding.

Lol, but to quote the master himself

“Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.”
― Lao Tsu, Tao Teh Ching

I’m a writer and always seeking answers, but I think maybe sometimes more is found in silence.