Horse Introspection Poems

A thief, a murderer, an arsonist
Before all these I was someone’s child
An embezzler, a liar, a con artist
Before all this I had big hopes and...

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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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fade out from the camera lens
the lotus bloomed from the broken glass soil
all things came into perspective
as every toil was put into focus

every shard set...

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A man had two horses, each a fine stallion, both buddies and good friends. It so happened, one of them lost eyesight in an accident....

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"When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations."             ...

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A moment of worry white butterflies roaming nearby 
Melancholy blues whispers in the breeze
Yet even though the chest feels cold
Stories, magazines, internet, articles, poems emerge
There...

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Why do flowers have such color and charm,  
The sky is blue: the woolly clouds march past
Au revoir to the day.  To memories...

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Because some troubles and faults left by last administration, the incumbent can try to restore or redress. But for some other questionable moves beyond recantation,...

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As Long as the Sun Shines

In truth, this retirement game is not all it seemed
When, at most, I’ve achieved just a few of my dreams
And...

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Men who fear to cross a road
which leads out of the dark
will never know the light that shines
upon the truth writ in these lines.

To give...

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Where are all the rhyming poems

A sentence of imprisonment inside a world 
of unmarked tombs 

inside the womb 
that echoes out 
I think that I...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Empty nest syndrome, plus lapsed romances revisited...
courtesy Matthew Scott Harris
sentimental memorialized mental archive

No matter mine eldest daughter
(born December 22nd, 1996)
starred circa within storied
Matthew Scott Harris...

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Bonded by nature,
one and all the same
in this play of life;
a performance of
miraculous bliss.

spiritual
harmonic souls,
ease into one;
horse and rider

Respecting
energies,
transmuting...

one mind,
one spirit

One.



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Medicine Hat Appaloosa
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Remember free will too has been gifted,
with freedom allied to fate's fickle choice.
Tendered words uttered still..now uplifted, 
God provides each one a life...

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