Romantic Sorrow Poems

Yesterday and Tomorrow

Yesterday was filled with so many promises of happiness 
And now all I have to remind me is empty tomorrows 
Yesterday I had...

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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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Piano music plays.
Soft notes emote mid air,
like tear-stung doves they fly 
in atmosphere of fog.
The clouds, they shroud the sky. 

Piano music plays, 
the keys,...

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I stumbled last night and today
After a year and 8 months 
It started with Chinese cooking wine
It began with the night's emptiness
Wine becomes bad days...

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I pass by the nature everday, 
To see it's beauty in every way.
The sound of the shiny streams that pass through every night, 
Reminded me...

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how can someone bear
this discomforting feeling -
sweet, mutual love...

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Quote By Poet   
"Hearts are fragile, need to handle with loving care."  


Heartbreak ~ you had it your way  


Date Written:...

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I just want to be alone in your company 
Cuddle  in silence 
Inhale your breath 
Till my  lung chokes on your  breeze...

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In my next life, i'd marry death
I want to be husband to the terminator of breath
I'd pamper her to know no dearth
Feed her with all...

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Some proclaim this veil can be a blessing or a curse
For me it is both and neither
It is not heaven’s blessing nor an archon’s curse
It...

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Along a quiet river to nowhere were styx lean like broken crosses. The wind is gentle with a sent of quite decay or is that...

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A chance encounter
Love at first sight 
A cute meet
A romantic encounter
An unarranged fate
A blind date 
Not fortuitous
Not accidental of course
An arranged affair
A chance meet or...

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Struggling with sorrow
Time she had to borrow
Her mind filled with pity
Her position wasn’t pretty
She had the name of Paulette
God knows she couldn’t forget
How he’d kissed...

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Divinities of stone 
Humanity of bone
Legions march in time 
to glossy cracked clocks. 
Black Boots step to the metronome. 
Before them dark skies become…
Into it...

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