Moon Introspection Poems

III
the world fades from my fingertips
like blood oozing from an open wound
the sky is ripped apart and full of thunder
and my eyes are twisted in...

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Love is given but respect is earned
Remember that lest you be burned
Every life lesson ends in pain
But the knife stops just short of the vein
Another...

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If I knew not to die in life,
For I have died so many times,
I would turn to stardust,
To be forever immortal.

I would turn into darkness
Not...

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The sun & moon align to cast a shadow
for a time
revealing plans of space & time
There's no place to hide from divine timing's
rhyme or reason
as...

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There is to be
an eclipse today -- 

a contrary moon
having its dark side
illuminated – 

nothing with free will strong enough
to turn its back entirely on...

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Sitting in my writing chair
illuminated by a single candle
and light from a waxing gibbous moon
penetrating my office window.

This would work for an hour or so
until...

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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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Copper sphere rising
   Over fields of lavender
Catching me, smiling.
...

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Green Peace or Hunt for the Royal Sun-
trying to get off a planet poisoned by hate and greed-
warlike ideologies armed to the rotten teeth 
hoping...

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Tears mingle with pain.
her heart breaks as she blinks back the doubts,
risking the still essence of heartbreak,
trembling, the lonely ache whispering through her,
tempting her to...

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I am …

a withered leaf -
the breath of your indifference,
tossing - like every other …
we sit on sand
shoulders pressed like sinners
yet from the chill,
not familiarity...

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Uncommon Sun frisks mercury— heat's blight
On Winter's frame around tree trunks and boughs,
Shrieking frost shattered— melts in her tears, rights.

Atypical thaw for this season's height,
Where...

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what
glistens
through
her light
bring
the
pearl white moon
tonight...

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Tree boughs scope me by window glass,
As the long night without stars pass
The moon out like dead rock— the last
Time dark mornings will be so...

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The darkness coalesced in my eyes
Whispering the sweetest lies

Erecting a bloody throne
Made of broken bone

The color seeped from my cheeks
Leaving me weak for weeks

The pain...

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