Best Yangtze Poems

A year ago the Yangtze River Dolphin was declared extinct.

In Memoriam: The Yangtze River Dolphin

November sunset --
Quickly does the evening fall
Upon the village.
The Yangtze River...

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Welcome to China’s gorgeous Yangtze River
third largest river in the world
rising at Jari Hill
in the Tanggula Mountains
christianed Quian by Marco Polo
seventeen hundreds renamed Blue River...

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Flow mighty rivers, what all have you seen
Rise and fall of empires, string of storied kings
As veins carry blood, you give Earth its life
Carving the...

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Heavily laden boats, rectangular sails billowing 
    Under seas of low cloud, braving the fierce Yangtze;      ...

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How lovely and how strange a river is. A river is a river, always there, and yet the water flowing through it is never the...

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I know of, and I rest in awe of the illimitable greatness of the river Congo, and the Yangtze.
     I know...

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Himalayas

Eons ago in the planet’s evolution,
During tectonic plate movement: 1
The Indian Island Ma moved northward
Crashing into the Eurasian continent,
To form the Himalayan mountains. 2

Out of...

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Quayside bazaar
Odd artifacts;
Trinkets to go

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Poignant tune
Old memories flood;
Trip to yesterday

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Airport arrival
Homecoming route;
Mid-afternoon buzz

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Laundry lady
Dry cleaning job;
Helpful hints

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Sleepy hangover
My mother's voice;
Dreamy interlude

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Old giant rubber tree
Huge monolith;
Treasured...

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(As a child I was nicknamed Andie Pandie for the panda bear that I liked so much, one reason why I chose to do my...

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I once spent a week in the drunk tank
couldn't handle the spirits that I drank
the cuisine wasn't half bad
we even had a few laughs
but I...

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Chinese Poets: English Translations II

These are modern English translations of poems by the Chinese poets Tzu Yeh, Lin Huiyin, Xu Zhimo and Huang E. These...

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t?sse?a st???e?a: ?e??

?e??: mainland china-
the year is 1930 and the
people of china have
been suffering for 2
years now because of
widespread drought which
caused famine in three
northern provinces,...

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Whenever a ginseng breeze blows,
Tokyo tears fall in my heart — 
I have mountain village longings for distant her
My lonely home sits below sea-level blue,
my...

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I carve and cut my quarters from a cork tree
Intermittently pausing to assess my progress
Young yet yellowing Yggdrasil on the Yangtze 
Getting grander but perishing...

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SORROWS OF THE WILD GEESE by HUANG E

These are my modern English translations of poems by the Chinese poet Huang E (1498–1569), also known as...

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