The Lines in the skies
...I saw them moving from place to place, looking for a brand new face
But nothing could click for they were way out of line from the distance embedded in the skies and the stars were moving in a strai...
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Categories:
song dynasty, business, confidence, courage, environment,
Form: Prose Poetry
Earthbound
...The flower that blooms in adversity
is the most rare and beautiful of all
— Mulan
EARTHBOUND
a miniature rose
beauty in beholder’s eyes —
golden lotus springs
3/5/2021...
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Categories:
song dynasty, angst, body, dance, flower,
Form: Haiku
Mao I
...Mao I
(After an ink drawing by Mao I, Song dynasty, c. 1100
in the Freer Gallery of Oriental Art)
Faded, brown, discrete, as flowers pressed
in some antique book or magazine suggest
an intimat...
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Categories:
song dynasty, flying, memory, wind,
Form: Verse
Translation of Song Dynasty Poem: Plum Trees
...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 Ch...
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Categories:
song dynasty, appreciation, beauty, culture, nature,
Form: Light Verse
Today Is Mid-Autumn Festival
...Author: Runping Chen
Here is the noisy lodging house
Where I cannot compose a poem in reply to Dongpo’s Prelude to Water Melody
Because whoever can hardly
Bear the accumulated homesickness.
I ...
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Categories:
song dynasty, autumn, emotions, family, holiday,
Form: Free verse
People Petals
...This is my translation of a Chinese Song dynasty poem and my response to the poem
Yan Jidao
To the tune of Mulan hua
Again, the east wind blows its heartless gusts
Smears flowers thick upon t...
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Categories:
song dynasty, flower, hope, sorrow,
Form: Free verse
The Ten Million Dollar Chinese Bowl
...The Ten Million Dollar Chinese Bowl
By Elton Camp
Asian art collectors were extraordinary excited
A rare Chinese imperial ceramic bowl ignited
Asia's fine art market has exploded last decade
It wa...
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Categories:
song dynasty, funny, art, art, ,
Form: Rhyme