Farewell Sorrow Poems

I'm stealing a few moments from Father Time
to pen my thoughts on parchment pages.
I write of mirth we shared, sweet and sublime,
capturing it in recorded...

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As she awaited for her head to pass through the guillotine, She said to the young girl who was standing in front of her
Who was...

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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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Once, so long ago, in love, we did believe
A union was forged, forever to conceive
But shattered dreams and promises untold
Betrayal's wrath, our story now unfolds

With...

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Bruised moments, flooded with shadows,
Silhouettes of lonely graves,
Hidden in the promises of fate’s disgruntled maze,
Bedded down on prickling thorns of loss,
Lavender faded beneath the stones,
Slabs...

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Winter's slumber might heal
a farewell spoken at the end
of summer.

Living lonely through the colors of fall
and the fading of flowers,
each falling leaf is another tear.

Perhaps...

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You said, ‘move on’
As it is a new season
This sounds like a Kafkaesque novelty
This is an ungodly form of hypocrisy
Suffused with a boisterous rudeness
Ingratitude can...

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Last Kiss

 I asked you twice, I’ll not ask thee thrice, the twice I asked was to see if question was heard, they’ll be not...

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sparkling true blessing cast neath nightmares blaze~~their dreams arise from ashes...

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A day
That I’ll always remember
A very somber DAY
A very sad day
A day to ponder
A day to wonder
A day
Not like any other day
A very unusual day
A...

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You cannot charm away the grim reapers;
No matter how beautiful your slick tongue
Bathes your bottom lip; to give air lippers
‘til oxygen craves your depleting lung,

Because...

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To the sound of pelting rain, she woke in early morning
Upon the tattered tin roof, it rhythmically pitter pattered
No sunlight peeked through clouds on daylight's...

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lying in my gyrate mind,
     I can no longer hold on to the troubles that are mine,
    ...

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sunset was peeping 
when your sweet kiss damped my cheek ~
as you closed your eyes 

November 13, 2022...

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