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Red lotus incense fades on
The jeweled curtain. Autumn
Comes again. Gently I open
My silk dress and float alone
On the orchid boat. Who can
Take a letter beyond the clouds?
Only the wild geese come back
And write their ideograms
On the sky under the full
Moon that floods the West Chamber.
Flowers, after their kind, flutter
And scatter. Water after
Its nature, when spilt, at last
Gathers again in one place.
Creatures of the same species
Long for each other. But we
Are far apart and I have
Grown learned in sorrow.
Nothing can make it dissolve
And go away. One moment,
It is on my eyebrows.
The next, it weighs on my heart.
Li Ching Chao
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Sue Ann Simar
(7/26/2008 11:08:00 AM) |
Line by line, timeless perfection. 'Who can/ Take a letter beyond the clouds? '
'Creatures of the same species/ Long for each other'
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Zhuli Xin
(12/29/2007 6:00:00 PM) |
It weighs on my heart
this motherly love
as existence engulfs
my faraway homeland
show me the light
of Return
beyond my mountains
rivers autumn flowers
of qung dong!
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