Moon Farewell Poems

Fukuda Chiyo-ni Haiku

Fukuda Chiyo-ni was a Japanese poet and painter of the Edo period, also known as Kaga no Chiyo.

Having seen the moon
I can bid...

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Chinese translations Li Bai

These are my modern English translations of Chinese poems by Li Bai, who was also known as Li Po.



Zazen on Ching-t’ing Mountain
by...

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You left
After death
Knocked at your door
No need to say more.

We painfully grieved
We recited your poems.

We cried like grown kids
As you lay
Silently surrounded
By a dazzling array...

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I recall many brights stars
but no moon
for lack of guiding light
we will sink soon

I see ladies 
with much fancier clothes
lowered with room to spare 
in...

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With a lump in my throat, I thought "Is this it"
I never thought I would go down with the ship
 
As I floated in the...

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Can we put a man on the moon?
Just asking, hope not too soon..

We've built him a rocket
In the shape of a bed
With nice fluffy pillows
For...

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shadowed ...

the China hills
like little pills set on end
and stairs that wend to the moon
so far from June, he thought
wrought now with frustration
on the ramp...

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On a spring day without you.
Even if you aren’t there, I still remember you.

Over the clouds and peaks up high, across the rivers, across the...

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The Police wrote a song called Roxanne,

About a boy in love with a “woman of the town,”

There are times when life’s circumstances,

And the loneliness of...

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Softly sighing, cerulean skies melt over a trail of endings.

Lost in last night’s laughing leaves, silent reflections, memories trembling.

Echoing along shadows, laughing quietly as past...

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The Last Unicorn 

I was with the last Unicorn
As she drew her last breath
Her horn expelled magic
As she succumbed to her death

The fairies and Gnomes
Each...

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6 Lines


Shored-up wooden boats standing in the mud, braced by boards to stand erect,
   
We vigilant men past sixty, retain our dignity, and...

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First year came as a rude shock 
And the second still was like a dream 
Third was a reality
The gone is gone for good 
My...

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The Age of Man

We carried on
The age of man
Till moon of tin bore
An electric sun

And all machines 
Shone bright and clean
Keeping silent
But wanting more

Till the...

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NO MORE…..
My world has gone silent,the birds chirp no more.
Life has gone still, flowers bloom no more.
Skylight has faded coz my moon shines no more.
Melodies...

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