Haiku Chinese Poems

Chinese ingenious
Cow bones turned mahjong tiles
Creative genius....

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Love Poems

Out for Chinese food.
"A full wife is satisfied."
Good fortune, cookie.

Pulling warm sugar.
Our love is like sweet taffy.
It is worth the work.

Your hand is in...

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Li Poe's ink-stained quill,
Words dance in ancient embrace,
Verse whispers through time....

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Eat bitter, taste sweet
Do this, rewards you will reap.
Fight, savour, repeat....

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gentle opulence 
	bright symbol of reunion ~
		yuè yuán zhi yè

(October Full Moon – Chinese) 
*yuè yuán zhi yè indicates the night when the moon has...

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These are translations of some of the oldest Japanese waka, which evolved into tanka, renga and haiku. 

While you decline to cry,
high on the mountainside
a...

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Grasses wilt:
the braking locomotive
grinds to a halt
—Yamaguchi Seishi, translation by Michael R. Burch

Oh, fallen camellias,
if I were you,
I'd leap into the torrent!
—Takaha Shugyo, translation by...

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The Lunar Cycle

Holiday of fifteen days

Red lanterns shed light...

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Spring festival
Auspicious colours
Painting town red


Reunion dinner
Grand celebration
Hearts aligned


Homeward bound
To gather again
Good times come around


Joy sings
Spring chorus;
Familiar red packets


Laughing faces
Jolly feasting:
Memory subscribes...

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CHINESE SECRET LOVERS

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