Short Chung Poems

The days of Corona  
                              Robert Chung
In Corona season
What is it like to kill a day, 
Short or long

It is like flipping a page after page,
Fun or ho-hum...

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Two shadows
                        Robert Chung
Light of the sun casts
The shadow upon the trees,
Galanty show to the pebbles.

In a beam of soul
Love yields the shady hatred,
Life draws death with silhouettes....

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Plum trees by the corner,
Sole bloom of winter;
With faint fragrance
Adorning the frost.

Poem by Wang An Shi  (1021-1086 ) 
-Chancellor of Song dynasty 1070-74/1075-76

Translation: Brian Chung
purelandsutras.wordpress.com/blog...

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A full moon
                           Robert Chung
Once in the lunar month
A full moon stops by,
Telling us something, tacitly.
We do not perceive it, but
Marvel only at her brightness.

The wild dogs on the hill
Howl knowingly.
They are touchy-feely!...

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Chang Chung Chungling smacks the bartender,
                                  Merrily in a midnight bender;
                                    But in the drinking spree
                                       In a certain degree
                               He ends up being a big spender....

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No title
                                      Robert Chung
The sun to rise and set,
The soul and body to play game
I perceive, though.

For no meaning
I skip a pebble across the river.

Without any goal
I cast a line fishing in the stream.

With no reason 
I kick off empty cans clattering.

Don't say 
Where I am in a dense fog....

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The last Plumeria flowers
                                       Robert Chung

The fall equinox passed away a long ago
I’m the last flower left over

Early morning you stopped walking by 
Don't inquire of me why or how
If briefing, I must not let the sunset depart

Someday, missing me as passing by, 
You may chat with each other
Through the night till dawn breaking...

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this is were we thought we be saying i love you and all
but i ain't getting know check so
guess ain't no such thing as love
until then.
ain't no merry christmas baby
gonna help remedy this void, sh$t
better
your husband don't want me
with you this year
he used his influence to
cancel our festivies
he ah bit$ch!
see you on the other side of new year, 
for real thats right right on
the other side. 
then we gonna fool them b$tches all over again!...

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