To Virgil

At your times there rose palaces of poems Where the universe found its origin The masses were coaxed to swallow it down Bitter cups of theories waxed by sweetness In as far as you could cast your hearing A new reverence echoed in the dark

You sorrowed, you trembled. Stunned by Grand scenes of imagination Your soul soared, then down to reason A refute claimed, in a sudden—— Your eyes widened to excitement Great plan pressed your expiration In firmness you smashed up the lens To rewrite orders of the empire

You arranged for disasters and survivals Kept track of vagrancy as well as missions You weaved the golden days into an anthem Then chanted in tune of a lamentation As to those tempting, deadly illusions, You suppressed them underground, in a dream

You lighted a flame inside enteral minds Men and Gods for first time came to equality The fire grew and spread from breasts to breasts, Burning down the city of stars and liberty, Burning down the person with only truth to believe Down came the all-abled father to sell his redemption In crying he drew the water flow Form the coercion of the heaven

The story unfinished, But you got exhausted You sailed off to a holy sea, Let the wind blow up the sheet, Along the well-straight channel, under the tranquil moon

By Annie

Of Ice, Fire and Life By Tianyi Shen, 2022/6/30

Daisy

—An illustration of Daisy in the 2013 film The Great Gatsby By Tianyi Shen, 2022/4/30 The texture of fluid is perfect to capture thoughts about the earth, as our world is in an ever-changing state. Life, represented by white sperms of purity, comes from the blue water and charges into the firing future. As for the round shape of the whole painting, circle is the best visualization of life itself---repeating, rebounding and reaching nirvana in a vigorous peace, with all the blocks of color dancing to their own beat. This is the way.

I have always been in love with the story of the Great Gatsby, especially after sharing similar experiences. I suppose Daisy to be his goddess of light---the kind of ‘moonshine’ that men seek desperately due to either love or just illusions throughout their lives--filling his dreams and illuminating his future. Gatsby, in turn, worships his goddess in every possible way. But not until Gatsby eventually captures her shallow phantom in sight does he realize the harshness of truth. I want to freeze the moment when they two collide. In the closest distance of two minds, differing in directions yet clinging to yesterday, the fading light in Daisy’s eyes are shining with excitement. So are Gatsby’s, I guess. But we will never know, never until

Steven 刘兴和

This picture is about a construction site. this may inform us that there's beauty at every corner of our lives if we can discover them.

This picture is shoot through a microscope. it can show people the beautiful micro world.

Vera 朱蔚然

Bright flowers! 2022.4.23 happy rhododendrons

· 2022.2.11 an orange street light among pink cypresses, shot by my parents and I when we were waiting for Bus 366 on New Year’s Eve. Flowers not so bright! 2022.4.23 the same group of rhododendrons, trying to look as mysterious as Over the Garden Wall.

Lots of clothes 2021.10.17 every morning struggling to school, I see these hanging clothes through railings of the bicycle shed.

Verano in November 2021.11.13 some unknown red flower shot on a very hot day in November. llévame al verano~

The Ruins of Saint Paul’s in the distance on a rainy night (Macau)

Jolin 刘冰宁

Imperial Palaces of the Ming and Qing Dynasties in Beijing

the Temple of Heaven: an Imperial Sacrificial Altar in Beijing

Harry 曹弘毅

The Nanjing eye taken during the sunset. The twocircled bridge arranged in the middle with sun light coming from the back.

Ancient Chinese styled architecture in the sun light. Lanterns with red light glooming on the roof and bright colored clouds in the background.

The buildings of the Nanjing Poly Theater with blue sky as background.

Taken in the evening, the starshaped lights hang in the gallery of 1912.

The basketball field in XianLin district after the rain with the wet ground reflecting the color of the sky

The stone animal sculptures in Xiaolingwei in Nanjing. Sunlight going across the tree leaves, showing different colors.

Sudden catch of a bird resting on a branch of the maple tree in Qixia mountain. A half-light, half-shadow ancient Chinese styled architecture under clearblue sky.

Betty 陈之钰

The blue sky and beautiful sunlight matches perfectly. Despite the tiring studying at school, it’s such a wonderful thing to see a seemingly ordinary scene and gain the strength from it.

The night of the spring, some of the flower dropped from their branches. With the soft light fell on them, it seemed like being in golden slumber.

The spring time. Though the ginkgo leaves turned to the green color, when the sunlight touched them, they reflected into “different” green. What’s more, the branches and leaves happened to form a circle, in its centre, two girls occasionally past through the hallway. In the background, the stadium could be seen. All the scene composed together perfectly which showed us a halcyon afternoon picture.