Wife Moon Poems

The Haunting of the Moon


She comes when the Moon is heavy
With wishes from many a maid
Who with passionate longing,
Their dreams upon it laid

She comes when...

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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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Gardens of sea pebbles
glistening 'neath the moon,
shining their finest glow,
ride the tide as it slinks
away in ebbing flow.

Gardens of sea pebbles,
bright with seafloor colors,
mingle with...

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What is the noise I hear,  
could it be a loud cheer?  
Oh no my dear,  
we must leave and go the...

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Taking on an odd challenge - committed
Ideal forms, fired in keenest kiln
Trespass pages torn out, inmate omitted
Anguish arms, firm steely shield


Tigers eye eclipse rolls out...

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Once in the star-filled winter sky,
When I looked at the crescent moon,
Hanging like a delicate jewel

I knew you too were looking high,
Our gazes might meet...

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She was ensnared within her gardens,
Amid a tempest of roses,
Entangled in the mournful whispers of… 
Weeping willows,
From noon till night.

Within her bustling haven, 
the envy...

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The black velvet sky,  
with diamond dancing stars.  
The full moon,  
shining brightly.  
Morning awaits,   
sun bursting into color....

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Autumn’s now here, waves lap the shore.

Your strong, warm, bronzed hand holds mine .

Our daughter, grown, loves us forever more.

Our grandson, now a teen, for...

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In the hot A-Ga-Ming night
My wife and I skip the July 4th fireworks
At the sandbar down south on long Torch Lake

Start our own shoreline fire

Count...

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Sturgeon Moon
So soon
Summer slips through our fingers
Our own version of Michigan underwater beasts
Ogling the luminous bellies of boats swimming down Clam River

Dockside a roar with...

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Our sky is filled with beauty,                                       ...

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Moon, you bring romantic poems to life
Amid the heavens to me and my wife.

We sat as the sun turned the sky amber
And absorbed the gray...

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The day is coming to a close,                  ...

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They say that love is like the sun
Lighting up the moon
Two hearts eclipse and beat as one
On an evening late in June

In azure skies where...

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