Long Chun Poems

Back Door Side Door Front Door : Which door might a Confucian take
 
..................for René ETIEMBLE (Jan. 26, 1909 – Jan. 7, 2002)*

In homage - dedicated to the Chair Professor of Comparative Literature
.................at the prestigious...

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I’m A “Street Fighter” 
You see the “Wings” CHUN 
LI
“BRUCE WAYNE”
 “LEROY”
“LU”
KAME
“THE LAST DRAGON BREATHS”
You don’t want “NUN”-CHUCK
NORE IS ANY ENTITY
Check my IP MAN
my Impulse 
 “Ki”
I’m the “1ONE” Fearless 
Jackie’s First Strike “Unleashed”
In a...

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The Song of Magpies
by Lady Ho
translation by Michael R. Burch

The magpies nest on the Southern hill.
You set your nets on the Northern hill.
The magpies escape, soar free.
What good are your nets?

When magpies fly free, in...

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PRELUDE

The song expresses the feelings of an Indian village girl. Her parents have fixed her
marriage (It generally happens in the rural areas of India, even to-day). She is about to
leave for the first time for...

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(for those in Kwangju: May 18, 1980)*
after Dante

Taking this peach within the mouth, the tongue 
hovers around its sunset skin like a lover
and its Sappho sweet bite is heaven. A song

of honeysuckled rivers is like...

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I came to your house this morning
And posted something for you,
My favourite crushed can of Special Brew.
But I don't think you noticed,
I don't think you cared
Or maybe you were just a little bit scared.
I'm constantly...

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Pike Place Market and Space Needle
race tracks out at Indy
stands Jefferson's Memorial
Nashville's Grand Ole Opry

Biking somewhere downtown Beijing (Bay-jing)
Great Wall nearby Xian (Z-on)
wow, thirty million in Chongquing (Chun-king)
pass Hong Kong on sampan (sam-pon)

St Petersburg a...

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Sweet flowing hands
Sweeping charm
Dancing slowly
Like wings
of a butterfly

His eyes - gentle, perceiving, acknowledging
In the midst of silence, he's aware of her every move

Sliding along 
Shuffles feet
as arms 
go back
Taking snake shape
The great cobra strikes

His lips...

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Dil ki baatein dil tak hi thi,
Ya phir meri baaton mein bhi uska dil tha?
Uske dil mein chhupa hua ek raaz tha,
Jo dil ki jagah naino ne bayan kar diya.

Uski aankhon mein ek kahani thi,
Jismein...

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Someone asked why my words have been so silent.
 I stopped to think and ponder why.
 I wrote a line or two,
 scratched them out and wrote another few.
 Like sands of an hourglass, words...

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Wings of bronze, Wings of silver, Wings of gold.
 Soar with me in a flight so bright.
 Show me not Icarus' flight.
 Fly with me in the darkest night.
 Give flight and air to feathers...

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Took a lifetime to find you.
 Someone who matches me in stride.
 Who feels the same as I do for them.
 I know why it never worked with another.

 It's beyond words these feelings I...

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Running blind, Running scared.
 Darkness, emptiness, trapped.
 Emotions bleeding, dripping, leaking out.
 A dam, a wall, a box I've built.
 Crumbling, folding, shredding fast.
 Running blind, Running scared.
 A touch, a look, a kiss.
 Floating,...

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Slaughter me in a bed of roses;
Color so red you'll never see.
Pain so great the thorns beyond your notice.
I'll give you everything I am.
Suffer me until the end,
For i am the fool that will bleed.
I...

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That unfinished verse I meant to type.
 you know that writing I showed and meant to finish.
 I was so upset I could not do it.
 Life will give me what it may.
 I will...

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I don't know what to say.
 I don't know what to feel.
 I don't know what to think.
 I do know I look for you.
 I do know I listen for you.
 I do know...

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Insanity,
 Instability, 
 a touch of vertigo.
 Trees rustling, clouds flying, 
 a night so dark no stars can shine.
 Feet planted on earth so solid,
 anchored down a weight so heavy.
 Darkness settles as...

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A word not spoken,
 A meaning never said.
 A thought lost,
 A moment passed.

 Maybe I should have said what I meant.
 Maybe I should have said my mind.
 Maybe I should of thought it...

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South Korea’s thirteenth guide, who rode Korea as his chariot 
Only for six breathes, guided by the thirteenth star of Iscariot 
Under the hoofs, he defiled the white flag, as yin and yang turned again...

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It's funny, you think, you ponder.
 Watching those around you pass along,
 thinking all is well, thinking all is fair.
 Memories flicker, memories fade,
 What you think is there may be an apparition.
 Like a...

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Don't turn away, Don't blink an eye.
 In some respect we never see,
 faster than we can ever believe.
 Once standing proud, on solid ground.
 You cannot know, you cannot grieve.
 All you can know...

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Throw the dishes, close the drawer.
shut the cupboard, slam the door.
Raise your voice, holler loud.
The kids are sleeping, it's ok to yell.

Angry parents don't stop to think,
Loud and righteous in a blink.
Children cower in shadows...

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Oh, look over there!
There's a button that makes life easy,
wait, what's that? 
There is no easy button! 
Someone forgot to mention,
self-destruct is a straightforward path.
Like a yellow brick road so simple to follow.
Deviation from a...

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Sense of loss and sense of nothing.
words I live by as they are something.
I can not feel as that would be a meaning.
to a life that's lost in a sea of creating.
I think that numbing...

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bruised tank top
	name’s been scratched out
	
	a guy jumps over the net fence,
	out of the dog’s yard
	smoother than the water in a wine glass.

		guy says “what you talkin’ bout”
		and then it’s nothing but nothing words and...

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