Friday, December 27, 2019
AFTER THE CHINESE MASTERS
AFTER LINES FROM
MENG CHIAO'S
SEEING OFF MASTER T'AN
Better we should
spend our time
trying to fly--
none of us who
depend on poetry
has gotten fat.
~
THINKING OF WANG WEI
You wonder
what is truth?
The fisherman
fishes.
~
AFTER A FEW LINES
BY CHIAO JAN
The wind says
keep moving,
even at
evening,
even in
autumn.
~
AFTER TWO LINES
BY KUAN HSIU
Poets chanting
like madmen
set the mountains
to dancing.
~
AFTER A LINE
BY LIU YU-HSI
She danced
as if
spring had
come and
all along
the river's
green terrace
swans were
rising.
~
MENG CHIAO'S
SEEING OFF MASTER T'AN
Better we should
spend our time
trying to fly--
none of us who
depend on poetry
has gotten fat.
~
THINKING OF WANG WEI
You wonder
what is truth?
The fisherman
fishes.
~
AFTER A FEW LINES
BY CHIAO JAN
The wind says
keep moving,
even at
evening,
even in
autumn.
~
AFTER TWO LINES
BY KUAN HSIU
Poets chanting
like madmen
set the mountains
to dancing.
~
AFTER A LINE
BY LIU YU-HSI
She danced
as if
spring had
come and
all along
the river's
green terrace
swans were
rising.
~
