Sorrow Green Poems

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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Quote By Poet   
"Hearts are fragile, need to handle with loving care."  


Heartbreak ~ you had it your way  


Date Written:...

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time goes by one hundred years
man goes on surrounded by fears
learn ? no he did not
he took on a fools role and suffered a lot
now...

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Another Friday assigned 
the number thirteen has ended
uneventfully or maybe it just seems 
that way to me whose days from that 
of my birth if...

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As her EarthDay drum calls out
to inside outside severance

Amid EarthTribe's gathered laughter
and sorrow,
speaking
and listening,
singing
and silent witnessing,

Earth's wealth
leaks nutritional health 
gifts sharing value with every messiah
in...

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Squirrel rustled leaves,
red maples in abundance.
burning embers glow.

light snow in the air
a leaf lies beyond the flames
maybe solar gleam

every willow leaf
tumble returned to its limb.
sorrow...

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Moss grows on the old gravestone
mooring itself into the moribund marble
spreading like a syphilitic rash
garbling the name in shades of green
the velvet glove of a...

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You've visited me after a long time: Remember; once, I was brimming with might? Named babbling brook, revered as a singing deity, how blissful was...

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My dad did not give me many words                 ...

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A young lady and her handsome husband,                       have the world by the tail.  ...

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So many stand alone in sorrow
beneath bare trees and grey skies
I remember when our hearts sung with joy
and our eyes smiled at all they saw
think...

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Look at the politrick pretty boys
painting the green
on their flypaper sticky lips

Making plenty cold eureka noise
Pluto eyes winking barren Mars tomorrows
Uranus pocketbook sorrow withdrawals

Saturn smiles...

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I got too close to the masterpiece
And realized it was cracked
Blemishes and scars 
Memories and sorrow

I stared as the brushstrokes reflected
fault lines in reverse images
slicing...

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Orang Ulu
Pronounced Uloo = Collective name for the 
up-river people of Sarawak

Orang Ulu,
loping through mottle-green light of the jungle-track,
lighter than dawn-mist, nimble as wild-cat.
Hunt-hounds around-him...

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I painted a desert in shades of my past
Muted in worry and tears
Granules of sand through a cracked hourglass
Falling in spite of the fears

A range...

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