Long Shan 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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MY POETREE FAMILY.
Note: If you read this you are
family too.
_________
I was born into poetry
by my dearest lovely sweet mother Kate Achi Bissong. Who always make sure i am
forever strong.

I was way too lucky
to have Edison...

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The guards patrolled the Chinese wall
As they did every day
They did not pay much attention
Seems to be the usual way

A clink disturbs ones peaceful stroll
A three armed hook appears
Catches on the parapet
With one of its...

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He wasn't just gay,
he was GAY gay.  The saddest gay person
I've ever known.  He was my friend.
He said that I was all he had...
me and Jesus.  But he could talk to me
a...

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Moth
In a kingdom full of ants
The splendid spider spidering
Deep into that darkness frogging
Death shall bring candlefish
It threw its ghost against the grubs

Deep into that darkness frogging
Death shall bring candlefish
It threw its ghost against the grubs
That...

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Limericks crochetés : Once a Bar Student in the fifties

Once a Bar Student in the fifties
Hoped to finish quickly his law studies:
Some students tipped him off
Pass-list clerk Good Enough
Will shift around marks for Five Guineas!

One...

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It’s 2023 and the war between the sexes has reached a fevered pitch
Maybe it’s what they call 3-D chess
But whatever, the boundaries have shifted
Blurred and literally merged
Or at least now we pretend they have
As the...

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The draper shop in Drumshanbo town was busy on the day
The girls were moving bales of cloth and packing shelves away
Are you allowed to dance tonight Jackie's hall we all can sway
It's a ceili Band...

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How to describe him,
the he that was so much a part of me
but for such a short while
brawn.

The span of his shoulders 
as they stretched across his un-ironed flannel plaid.
The wedge shaped fan of his...

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As early as C.629 a Chinese monk Xuanzang of Jingtu temple 
Motivated by the poor quality of translations of Buddhist scripture
Undertook a hazardous journey to bring the original from India
Despite the border being closed at...

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My old cat lies beside me on the sofa asleep
She is sleeping soundly but opens an eye to peep
She is resting her weary old bones tonight
She peacefully sleeps her coat shines in the light

She can’t...

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Vaat baghtey mi tujhya hokarachi,
hokar tu mala dyava,
mag sarvatr tula fakt mi,
ani mala fakt tu disava,
vaat baghtey mi ya shanachi ,
EK SHAN ASA ASAVA.........!!


vaat baghtey mi aplya milanachi,
milan aaple wahve ase,
guntave apon eka pavitr bandhanat,
mag...

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fushinantly fool scermently cool
redumptin plu sheir evening veiw
crumbling quil regarding shovent fear
shaded valued in few secment in shadaled in you
watchful in nude breaking it's point here in through
crindaled in vocrent shapays in laughing shaldint ruching...

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Walls 
SHAN Hai Guan is where he Chinese wall meets the ocean 
and the uselessness of building a wall as protection from 
thoughts, cultures and new ideas to enter into the soul of 
humanity, comes...

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Long ago, in a tiny Kingdom,
in some far-distant land,
lived four hundred sub-servient people,
whose ruler was "The Shan"!

He had a real bad temper,
and was subject to take fits!
So the people sorta walked on eggs,
and had to...

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