Goodbye Sorrow Poems

Like a deluge, sorrow fell from the sky
It leaves us with a 'never-ending' sigh
It's a tearful soul's cry
It's a question of 'Why'
It's hard to say...

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it's been a long night 
and I've been tracing your footsteps since the beginning
I am tired of the black it brings
of your shirt, the way...

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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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A mess of stress,
That no one can pass.
Hear my tears,
Drop onto the grass.
Aim the blame,
Toward my grounds.
Clouds all crowd,
As darkness surrounds.

Hide to confide,
The truths that...

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I hope someday
when I have gone
and you’ve kept on your way
Every once in awhile
those lips wear a smile
for the days we loved away

All of the...

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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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Apart from you
Slumber is all what I adore
Such a beauty to satisfy
from satisfying fantasy to fly
to even reversing a goodbye
Being with that someone
is no longer...

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I lay alone in this hospital bed dying
With not a soul by my side
Reflecting on the life l lead
Tears of regret and shame l have...

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Your story breathes again,
In the whispered exhale of falling leaves,
Orange, red, and brown leaves,
Their silent goodbye,
Drifting to the ground,
In a ballet of descent,
And slow dancing,
With...

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My eyes are getting weaker,
Tho' I seem to see so much more.
My days are getting bleaker, 
Tho' I laugh more oft than before.

A laughter so...

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A candle flickers in the wind.
It’s wants to fight, it won’t give in.
It wants to burn, it wants to shine.
It thinks it’s as hot as...

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I should've predicted the dilemma right from the start. 
When you parked your car, sideways, across my heart. 
Too far gone to see, too emotionally...

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Twenty two years has gone by,
And yet we’re gathered here again to say
Goodbye.
Goodbye to our loved ones taken too soon.
Taken in that bright Tuesday morning
All...

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Kiss the day goodbye
Leaving on feeling behind
The sweet and sorrow....

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IF I COULD GIFT MY LIFE AWAY
I WOULD GIFT MY LIFE TO YOU
YOU FILLED SO MANY HEARTS WITH JOY
MADE SO MANY DREAMS COME TRUE
THE ANGELS...

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