Short Grandeurs Poems

Some moments are phantoms
Disappearing swiftly without a sound
Inaudible traces
In colourless, restless surround

Others are goddesses
Wise and beautiful reminders of light
Subtle, sweet graces
Of all the grandeurs of life

A few are glass mirrors
Seemingly stable with reflective hues
Until the dust of time, quiet, settles
Both obscuring and revealing what's true...

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Mt Tai
How do I describe lofty Mt. Tai’s grandeurs?
Straddling Qi and Lu states, its green lingers.
The most gorgeous landscape the Nature has drawn,
The dark and light sides convert into dusk and dawn.
Floating clouds cleanse the mortal mind and soul;
Birds fly home in groups along the mount on a scroll.
I shall climb to the top and therefrom a bird-view will
Render all the other mountains around into small hill.
(tran.)...

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