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Chinese Female Poets: English Translations VI

...CHINESE FEMALE POETS: ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS

Creamy Melons
by Chao Luan-Luan
translation by Michael R. Burch

Scented with talcum, moist with perspiration,
like pegs of jade inlaid in a harp,
...

Last Glance

...Last Glance

I looked in the mirror and see what i saw.

It left without telling me its secrets which I knew without saying . 

You had left all of your clothes hanging stiff.

A memory and a...

Hakim The Gatekeeper from Esagila

...Hakim. The Gatekeeper from Esagila.

(A lone voice whispers)

In ancient Babylon, 

I once stood alone and mixed fire
Iron and clay 

All day 

Creating a spell
To entice my only light to...

Charles Baudelaire translation: Invitation to the Voyage

...This is my English translation of "L'Invitation au voyage" ("Invitation to the Voyage") by the French poet Charles Baudelaire. It's a poem he wrote for his soulmate...

Invitation to the Voyage
by...

Sappho Translations XV

...Sappho Translations XV by Michael R. Burch

Gaia, rainbow-crowned, garbs herself in myriad hues. (168c)

We ran like fawns from the symposium: me, Cleis and reckless Gongyla. (168d)

Destiny is...

Seijaku

...Despite the pulsing pirouette of urban thresholds,
coruscating catalyst amid detachment,
of golden spoke carousel magnetism,
circle-shape swivel platform roundabout,
that spreads incipient wish f...

In the odyssey of days that mercilessly run like grains of sand

...In the odyssey of days that mercilessly run like grains of sand,
An unseen battle is foretold that we shall wage in the shadow.
The war within our hearts, a citadel besieged by falling stars,
Wher...

You will untie knots from your chain, with trembling hands whistling in the wind

...You will untie knots from your chain, with trembling hands whistling in the wind,
And you will be unstrung, in turn, from someone's necklace, like an exiled pearl.
Often, partings dress in mute gar...

A Time to Reflect

...Quite far we have traversed, in pursuit of goals we chose,
Through troubles and trepidations of seasons in throes;
Sometimes reveling sunshine, sometime in glum of shadows,
Always together~ on bar...

A story of conditioning

...Conditioning 

Is seemingly

What we are..

Patterns inlaid

Are there for 

Comparisons..so that

An appearance might

Be labeled and

Understood..

Such a story may 

Arise......

Labyrinthine

...The tangled intricate emotion of love
washes a thin blood red line on the heart
where a glow waits patiently
on the winding path chosen
that leads to a treasure we seek
Where the sun rises in a ...

Epilogue

...In the depths of nights shades,
lies the underworld roots of tentacles and rakes of spades.
This darkness creeps and crawls,
Whispers and echoes screams of a fall.
But not until the error is inla...

Flames of Scarlet

...The gilding of the canopies
calls upon Autumn's Midas touch.
Whereas amber and orange leaves
get inlaid with gold filigree.

Jack Frost's icy kiss ushers in
the gilding of the canopies....

Sidewalks

...Sidewalks

We walked along the sidewalks
that paralleled the beach,
the ocean roaring in the distance
just beyond the soft sands,
an echo of all the waves
that have ever touched the shore,
be...

Dreams of An Alter Ego

...I make a perfect dry martini,
I read and write and speak Français,
All my suits, and shirts, and shoes are custom-made.
I own a Porsche and Maserati,
A house on Acapulco Bay
With scores of floor...

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