Moon Sorrow Poems

beak
of the plague mask
    lest I smell
your rotting bodies
    strewn
I smell your crosses
  daub your doors
I smell your...

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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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I wait—

here I wait
for white magic reverie
to embrace me   free me

here I wait—
an hourglass full
of leopard-print thoughts 
sugar-granular-musings spill
the beginning to the end...

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When a heart breaks, there is no indication,
Some sign, heralding the pause,
Between hope and hopeless, between
Music and total grief, between 
Poetry and prose, between
Light and...

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Tears mingle with pain.
her heart breaks as she blinks back the doubts,
risking the still essence of heartbreak,
trembling, the lonely ache whispering through her,
tempting her to...

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Nothing seems to matter
Now
The moments
Drained
Sun
Filtered
Moon
Cloud-bound
Life’s scents
Singed
By sorrow’s
Creeping embers
Horizon’s muted
Drained
Of their thrill
She sits
A stranger
Bound to me
By love
And thus
I am blinded
To all beauty
For she
Was 
The lens
Bringing it...

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In dreams of yonder, wishes wistfully conceive,
A cradle of lost tomorrows, where shadows sway;
To a realm unseen, where hearts believe,
Past where twilight’s lulling lullabies lay,
A...

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"Like a shooting s t a r,
         plunging from lunar fields of lavenders,
  to touch the...

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Summer Sonnet.
Missing her in the height of summer,
She left so soon, my heart swoons in sorrow
Missing her so far, as the morning sun glows,
As midnight...

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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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I see you everyday
From the halls of the school
In the real world
To the deep recesses of my mind

I see you in the warm embrace of...

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Souls waltz at the edge of shadows,
With grace only love could compose.
Silent musings erase all fear,
Flowing light through each dewlike tear.

Breathless laughter sounds in the...

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Clutching the moment 
Before yesterday became yesterday,
The promise,
Before he pledged his love to me,
The colors,
Before autumn waltzed away, 
Swaying in shadows of soft snowfall,
Breathing white,...

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For the bestest ones we've lost. Especially those tiny souls who take up our whole heart. Love and Light. 

My Light in the Dark 
By...

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