Yellow Crane has gone far away Way back from Fresh Water Sky 黃鶴遠颺淡水天

Hung-ping Tsao (2026). Yellow Crane has gone far away Way back from Fresh Water Sky. In: "Evolutionary Progress in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM)", Lawrence K. Wang and Hung-ping Tsao (editors). Volume 8, Number 11A, November 2026; 20 pages. Lenox Institute Press MA, USA. .......ABSTRACT: This short essay is written in memory of my dearest friend who just passed away. He had been teasing me around for more than sixty years to better our thought movements especially in poetics mutually. I use his last name Yellow (黃) as the starting word of the title, which along with his given name is embedded in the following bilingual poem. 黃鶴遠颺淡水天 Yellow crane has gone far away way back from Fresh Water sky, 文史統管皆頂尖 Literature history statistics or management each at the top story, 濤濤不絕雷貫耳 Influential revelations pouring on and on like water from the sky, 君今圓寂河濱仙 Now Yours truly attains nirvana to be a riverside immortal fairy; 文濤與我相識於師大數學系,但分屬甲乙兩班,可以說是只有點頭之交,一直等到清華大學數研所才熟稔起來,後來更成為室友以至於無所不談。這個友誼延續到今天,遠遠超過了一甲子。我以藏頭詩開篇紀念我的至友,除了懷念逾一甲子的友誼之外,也會包括他《野兔集》中一首長詩的英譯。我倆間的長期相互揶揄,促進了彼此勤於思考寫作的緣份。