Chinese Female Poets: English Translations V
...CHINESE FEMALE POETS: ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS
Sung to the tune of “I Paint My Lips Red”
by an anonymous courtesan or Li Ch’ing-Chao
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
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Categories:
sacred lotus, flower, for her, girl,
Form: Free verse
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
...Like crystal tears, soft petals dance and gleam,
While dewdrops stitch stars on morning's silken dream.
Each blossom spins gold wisdom from earth's mud,
As heaven's jewels birth dawn's awake...
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Categories:
sacred lotus, flower,
Form: Free verse
Silk-Fire and Arctic-Air
...I'm silk-fire, curled in emblazoned quartz horizons,
Of aurous equator, rising in smoke as a secular bird,
From own fossil-ashes, flying to distant honey-shores, scarlet spun,
Stretching across ...
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Categories:
sacred lotus, art, deep, fantasy, fire,
Form: Personification
Nelumbo Nucifera
...Blossoming moonlit spirit -
a sea of sacred lotus.
A whole heavenly creation
built up from muddy depths.
Sanctuary in the resurrection -
A beautiful revival....
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Categories:
sacred lotus, creation, nature,
Form: Free verse
Ode To Life Before and After the Lotus
...Ode to Life before and after the Lotus
Just a flower soon to wilt gone back to the soil
‘who are you when men and women rule the world?’
‘I am beauty, a sacred Lotus and hold the spirit of
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Categories:
sacred lotus, spiritual,
Form: Ode
Her Pain
...All alone she cries
Tortured tears she hides
In the dark her hope dies
Where are her hearts hidden guides?
You see her but don’t notice
Her face hidden in her darkened hair
In her pocket she ...
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Categories:
sacred lotus, family, friendshipsmile,
Form: I do not know?