Chinese Translations IV
...CHINESE TRANSLATIONS IV
These are English translations of Chinese poems about nature, the seasons, autumn, winter, spring, night, time, tears, flowers and love.
Seeking a Mooring
by Wang Wei
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Categories:
watered silk, autumn, love, nature, night,
Form: Free verse
To Madame G
...(after Alfred de Musset)
I take the view that travel gets you wet.
There’s also wind and dust. And in the morning,
your clothes are crumpled. Is this tete-a-tete
worth all the hassle? I woul...
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Categories:
watered silk, people,
Form: Sonnet
From the Poets Heart
...Shimmering blue light shines golden through lavender swirl
Beyond the window edge above the pond red mirrored black wings whirl
Shadows across curtain blow a thousand birds sun rise
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Categories:
watered silk, loveheart, heart, me,
Form: Free verse
The Maiden's Answer
...Marlowe’s ‘The Passionate Shepherd to his Love’
‘ Come live with me and be my love, and we will all the pleasures prove,’
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Categories:
watered silk, parodyme, me,
Form: Quatrain
Lullabye
...Lullabye
All smelling sweet with powder and of milk
‘Tis time to cuddle in your cosy bed
Mid golden hair that feels like watered silk
Are kisses showered on your curly head
Now comes the h...
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Categories:
watered silk, childhoodbaby, sweet, baby, sweet,
Form: Sonnet
Your Double-Sided Coin
...In you lies the timeless bittersweet dichotomy of divinity
The darkness and the light breed in you, their delicate fleshly host
God...God is in your eyes...
In that divine light gleaming from the ...
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Categories:
watered silk, lovegod, heart, light, god,
Form: Free verse
Always
...An errant wind ruffles the
surface of the lake,
disrupting the satin sheen,
quicksilver becomes watered silk.
The breeze caresses the old man
and he looks up in wonder
as he sees the spirit o...
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Categories:
watered silk, father, love, sad, son,
Form: Prose Poetry