Long Hike up Poems

Chinese Poets: English Translations II

These are modern English translations of poems by the Chinese poets Tzu Yeh, Lin Huiyin, Xu Zhimo and Huang E. These are poems about love, passion and beauty. 


Tzu Yeh (circa...

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The messages you send me puts me on Cloud 7…
Sweet love of mine…
That’s why I meet up with you at 7-eleven…
You’re looking fine…
Not everything lasts – I’ve learned…
All the messages – all have burned…
In the...

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I never imagined things would come to this
With you, life is filled with such bliss.
All the laughs we share,
No other memories could compare.
I love your smile
It's more radiant than the sunset's reflection off the ocean.
More...

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Another dark warm day with an heavy atmosphere/Humid
Not into dark days and my washing machine is noisily killing me, 
Coffee the life hike up
The always nice counter persons/English, Spanish, Portuguese/I always try to focus on...

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An Awful Harvest
I went a hike up to Wawa in Montalban and up the mountain roads. Here I was to go past the peaks of Mt Parawagan, Susong Dalaga and Mt Lagyo plus others. The...

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I had just reached the summit of the mountain;
The final reward for my four hour hike up the steep terrain.
There was still snow in abundance at the peak
Even though the summer sun bathed me in...

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Otis (Trench Mouth) Trench was born with pneumonia in a...

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The democracy balloon is dragging the ground,
Bouncing and skipping shaking it down,
A tisket a tasket …we’re in the basket
Getting lost as before we were found.

We know better ..but are we stuck?
Do we still know which...

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I start my afternoon hike up a mountain trail.
October’s sunlight, the vestige of Indian Summer,
dapples my exposed skin with welcomed warmth.
Sun’s rays are gilded tendrils cutting through pines
whose needles’ sweet scent
    ...

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Way back in the 1960s
in the Green Mountain state,
nearby the Mount Snow resort,
perched beside small Snow Lake,
was a peculiar formation
that you don’t see today,
locals called in Fountain Mountain,
it came about this way:

The founder of Mount...

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Is it becoming apparent yet
That mankind wants to fly off earth in a jet
They are filled with so much pain and sorrow
For they direct there own path today and tomorrow     ...

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Every morning, he feels tired,
He gets annoyed, when she calls,
Children are getting late,
Hardly he opens his eyes,
And switches on the light,
Bloody, ’Eight ‘o clock’.
He bounced to his bed,
And knee down to hike up,
The naked shivering...

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Today I went for a hike up a rocky desert hill
A jackrabbit crossed my trail
Peacefully hopping through his daily routine
I saw partridge birds
Consorting about over the topic of worms
I noticed the ease with which they...

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What if..

What if; it wasn't a lockdown forenoon 
Mommies whisking to kitchenette 
Daddy's out with newspaper headlines 
Little cubs denned in their late quilt and wishing no schooling today 
Rest world racing themselves to indulge...

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Partnachklamme
The most beautiful place


Above the Bavarian resort town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen,
There winds a country road which leads to the Partnach gorge.

Hikers are passed by less hearty tourists transported in hay wagons.

On the left side of the...

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We drove down the road. I saw such wondrous things. My eyes took in the steep sided grassy valley. In the bottom was a sparkling river. Sun reflected on the water which flowed over rocks....

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How lucky am I to live close by the iconic Beachy Head
From below I can hike up a very steep hill 
Though on reaching the top I can feel quite ill
So nowadays I travel by...

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I push past the reasons and expectations
no comparisons or judging, unexpected gyrations
you do your best with all that is offered
while I pack my bags and head for the border

call or don't, write it all out...

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I push past the reasons and expectations
no comparisons or judging, unexpected gyrations
you do your best with all that is offered
while I pack my bags and head for the border

call or don't, write it all out...

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she’s strong enough to admit
she cannot do it alone &
when she speaks, you listen,
when she sings, you listen,
when she stares off in silence, you listen
(for the next wise word to come about),
not because you expect...

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We all know the story about
Little Miss Muffet,
but did she ever get over
being arachnophobic,
and Jack and Jills little 
hike up the hill,
did they ever recover
from their nasty spill,
and poor Humpty Dumpty
with his tragic plummet,
were all...

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Oh, without this jet phobia, here's what I'd do:
Go traveling to Bimini, then on to Peru.

We'd hop on an aeroplane, and be there by noon.
We'd take in the sights, hike up Machu Picchu.
It sure would...

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My shoes lie prone like dogs waiting for a new adventure
Will it be a soft seashore shuffle?
A jaunt through the mall, all dusty with grime
A plunge to tippy-toe into mud and puddles
A climb up a...

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Buttemere to Ulla pike,our walk more ramble than hike.Up and down,rain or 
snow,two teenage daughters in tow.Haystacks,Loweswater overlooking the 
lake,now locked in memory's keepsake.Up Skiddaw and Wythrop beck,much 
much longer than our usual trek.Through the...

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As my last night appears to end 
With the sun gleaming into my eyes
I had fallen asleep on the deck
Counting stars in the sky

There was a brisk wind
Yet, warmth all around
The coffee was ready
The beauty...

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