Preface I
Part I: Poetry 1
I. History, Memory, and Love 3
1. 新造之歌 (Song of new Taiwanese Identity) 3
2. Love and Death 6
3. We are the world 8
4. My Love, My Lord, My Salvation 9
5. Abba, Father 10
6. Prayer 12
7. A Star Rises 14
8. Truth and Freedom 16
9. A Call from My Hometown 18
10. The Song of Salvation: Paranoia and Life 20
11. Living in One Sort of Romanticism: To My Beloved Wife, Spring(活在一種浪漫裡:給愛妻 春梅) 22
12. Wandering(流浪) 24
13. This is a song of salvation(這是一首救贖之歌) 25
14. Lord, You Do Care About Me(主 你竟然在乎我) 27
15. Thanksgiving(感恩) 28
16. Value of a Sparrow 30
17. Who am I 31
18. Weak As a Sparrow 33
19.Singing in the Night 34
20.My God is Never Crooked 36
21. Your Love is Like Tidings 37
22. Eternal Commitment 39
23. Deepest in My Heart—to My Lord 40
24. I Learn from My Suffering 41
25. Flowing is Time 42
26. I Hear Taiwan Singing 43
27. A Man’s Necessity 44
28. My Dream Rambles 45
29. Tears Take it Away(讓淚水帶走) 46
30. Let Me Love You More(讓我多愛妳一點) 48
31. My Heart is Like a Stream(願我心像溪水) 49
32. Blossoming Roses(遲開的玫瑰) 51
33. The Heartbeat of Life(生命的悸動) 52
34. Hola, my beloved(給我一點陽光:願你平安) 53
35. My Angel Gone 55
36. Give Me More 56
37. Flowing is Time 57
38. Awakening 58
II. Dialogue with Romanticism 59
1. Irene, My Sister 59
2. Concealed Afterlife 60
3. Waning Love in Autumn 61
4. No Second Taipei 62
5. Maturing Wisdom in Age 63
6. A War Poem in Taipei 64
7. Kaohsiung, My Memory 65
8. Tamshui River in Taiwan 66
9. Of Weeping for Those 67
10. Vanity in Vanity 68
III. English Hymns 69
1. Gently listening to me, Lord 69
2. I Will Stay with The Lord 70
3. Little Lily 71
4. Meeting with Lord at Dawn 72
5. Zion, AChosen Place 73
6. Ending A Wandering Life 74
7. Church is My Sweet Home 75
8. Ecstasy of Enjoyment 76
9. Jesus, I Love You 77
IV. Chinese Hymns 79
1. 哦 主耶穌你的愛 79
2. 哦 主耶穌你的愛 80
3. 更美的前程 81
4. 我神 我愛 我的永分 82
5. 主啊 故國 我的台灣 84
6. 我的人生 我的愛 86
7. 我的摯友我的兄 87
8. 想飛 88
9. 成了一台戲 89
Part II: Hermeneutic Poetics 91
1. A Hermeneutical Reading of William Wordsworth’s Lyrics 93
2. A Hermeneutic Experience of A Poetic Life: My Faith Diary 107
3. A Hermeneutic Dialogue with Theologian Darby on Psalms: Poetic Consciousness for Eternality in the Ever-Changing AI Era 117
Bibliography 146
Biography 149