Water Sorrow Poems

The mirror reflects a lifetime etched upon my skin; a canvas of stories whispered through maturity. I stand before it, middle-aged and exposed, my nakedness...

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In my dreams you interrupt, 
In my shower you limit water, 
Putting in clothes you drum louder
And getting out I'm sweating. 

You were to be...

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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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XVI: Who was wrong...

Who was wrong I cannot say
But often keep pondering day after day
Thoughts to which attention I shouldn't pay
But the heart simply won't...

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The rulers' wild minds and beast masks on tight
Were veiled in the looming night of their hands
Even their knees could not run from the plight
Air...

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"Sorrow" 

Reality cries its tears
of grief and fear 
calling out to Love 

the song heard 

in all of human kind
beseeching Love
in self, 

the conscious 
collective...

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Three breaths away -
His cloak floats
Dark, luminous
A cold wind wraps around me

Precious water,
Dripping in mirth
A song chills my bones,
Familiarity rings in my femur bones

The sacred...

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Child, child, dark and wild,
Human and machine
Did the engine turn the beasts to ice?
And to ash your faith, love’s cruel device? 
See Manson slipping through...

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Sr. Faustina had prayed...
for souls to be un-decayed

her Divine Mercy crusade--
was for a long time delayed

her cool Diary -- forbade!
its publishers, too afraid!!

its devotees, all...

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On the shore of the river,
we used to bathe,
in the streams flowing to that river,
we used to play,
with no worries,
with no sorrows,
following the water running...

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under optical delusion of a lampshade
a mind wanders in its own galaxy.
among echelons of stars infinite
in drumbeats of magical alchemy.
 
passions of expensive dreams dazzle
only...

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Eternal Word -- nailed to a cross of wood
Our New Covenant, written with His Blood
Redemption's Friday is True-- and so Good
Because Divine Mercy gushed like...

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Conceived with unique DNA
a soul-- on the very first day
wonderfully made, our lives begun
we're all redeemed by God the Son

Always remember -- you're unique :-D
the...

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I've never worn a pair of angel wings
There's no glowing halo above my head
but my tears flowed like water from wellsprings
when someone I love was...

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