Last evening rays
reflected on calm water
fisherman heads home

I didn't chide myself
  though I acted silly:
  no one did I offend
  I didn't cease to be happy

The music of JS Bach Influenced by the Chinese

I read a decade ago that JS Bach's THE WELL-TEMPERED KLAVIER had been preceded by the Chinese in the Ming Dynasty.

Chu Tsai-Yu invented 'Equal Temperament In Music' in 1584, an idea that filtered to the West through Pere Marin Mersenne's book ' Harmonie Universelle in 1636).
JS Bach seized upon the idea...

Source: CHINA---3,000 YEARS OF SCIENCE, DISCOVERY AND INVENTION
by Robert Temple (1st published in UK by Patrick Stephens Ltd in 1986-Foreword by Dr Joseph Needham, world authority on Chinese civilisation)
ISBN 978 315 174066 5339.

I ain't right
all the time
if I were wrong
I'd cause none any harm:

a hybrid I am-
just human

I'll be silent
   glide with the moment

   I'll feel
  with fulness of heart
  from distraction
  set apart

I'll love
words would be superfluous
will you regard
that I deserve?

all the world
is nothing
only you and I:
we're everything

Such a common error:
to take the major
as minor
and the latter
as the former

Don't say 'love'
when the proper word
is 'like'
meaning it does hurt