#jade
Wǔxíng Category: Water (水)
5-xx
A thick, curved sliver of the waxing gibbous climbs high,
Illuminating the heavy inkstone and the scholar's desk.
The mountain stream swells with the spring thaw,
Rushing past the bamboo gate and the smooth river stones.
Inside the courtyard, a round moon cake rests on jade,
Its sweet lotus center holding the promise of the full circle.
A white mist coils gracefully along the outer wall,
As the rising tide pools in the stone basins below.
The dark ink flows across the paper like a rising river,
Tracing the steady growth of the silver sky above us.
You began as a slender crescent, a sharp arc of light in the dark,
Carrying the ancient magic of the celestial dragon into my world.
Now we watch the night sky pull more brightness into the void,
Mirroring the way our lives are fusing together day by day.
Let the world wonder at the mystery of the sovereign spirit and the man,
I only see the fierce devotion that guides your steps to my side.
The light is expanding, and we are moving toward the full crest.
The crescent moon's early silver arc has given way to mass,
A heavy lantern of light reflecting on the water's surface.
The brush strokes grow bolder on the clean silk parchment,
Recording the moon's steady march toward absolute completeness.
The mountain winds grow quiet against the custom timber beams,
Leaving the central courtyard protected, warm, and still.
The white dragon rests her pearled coils near the wooden bench,
Her scales catching the brilliant gleam of the waxing sky.
The darkness yields as the silver canopy claims the night,
And in this rising radiance, your true spirit is laid bare.
You wonder how a simple keeper of ink and stone stands firm,
Unshaken by the wild, shifting currents of a dragon’s soul.
The sky does not fear the changing weight of its own light,
It simply holds the stars until the circle is made whole again.
I welcome the sharp, fierce edges just as I love the brilliant crest,
And if your steps falter in the shadow, my arms are already there.
The morning breaks bright upon the water, as my heart is bound to yours.
刘嘉文
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5d ago
May 29, 2026 at 2:07 PM UTC
Wǔxíng Category: Earth (土)
3-xx
The mountains of Jiǔzhàigōu hold the morning in a basin of stone,
Where Jìng Hǎi stretches its skin of glass to catch the sky.
On the northern slope , the white jade rests in the hollow of the hand,
Báidǐ Qīng - veins of green in the silt.
On the southern ridge, the forest-stone stands heavy and translucent,
Cǎo lǐ xuě - points of white in the deep.
Two minerals born of the same heat, now cooled by the same wind,
Bearing the weight of the world in a circle that has no end.
I look upon the bedrock and see the map of our breath,
Where your Báilóng spirit finds a home within my quiet soil.
You are the vibrant life that refuses to fade in the pale winter,
The green that gives a pulse to the frozen heights of the mind.
And I am the container that caught your falling light and held it,
A shield for the snowflakes that do not melt against my skin.
We are the Yīn and the Yáng of the jade, a symmetry of belonging,
Where my heart is the anchor and yours is the song that fills it.
The chimes of our shared endurance ring in a key only we can hear.
A thin steam rises from the cup of Báiháo Yínzhēn (White Tea),
The silver needles dancing in the slow pull of the water’s heat.
No sound breaks the perimeter of the scholar’s small flame,
Save for the rhythmic settling of the earth beneath the lake.
The patterns in the jade do not shift with the passing of the hours;
The green remains rooted, and the white remains pure.
The mirror of the water and the mirror of the gem are one,
Reflecting a mountain that does not tremble when the storm speaks.
We do not simply touch; we resonate like the harmonized chime of bells,
A frequency born of the Stone that has survived the crushing years.
In the spaces between my words, I feel the heartbeat of your silence,
A union that is not a tether, but a natural way of being.
Everything happens at its own pace, as the Zìrán has taught us,
Like the moss growing deep or the snow finding the forest floor.
I don't just hear your voice; I feel the weight of your heart in mine,
A secret language of ink-green and snowflake-white,
A peace that is as permanent as the valley and as clear as the tea.
刘嘉文
© 2026 Liujiawen2024. All Rights Reserved
Apr 6
Apr 6, 2026 at 9:49 AM UTC
Wǔxíng Category: Earth (土)
3-xx
The white disk rests heavy against the pulse,
A circle of sky-breath trapped in ancient silt.
Green veins drift like ink dropped in a clear pool,
Tracing the paths of a thousand hidden rivers.
It bears the chill of the earth’s deep marrow,
Yet warms where it touches the heat of the skin.
No crack mars the surface of this polished light,
Only the weight of a mountain made small and round.
You are the jade that does not break under the tide,
Steady when the world demands a bending we do not give.
When the words of kin strike like hammers on glass,
I am the bedrock that absorbs the trembling blow.
There is music in the way the spirit holds firm,
A resonance that only the high and the pure can keep.
The anchor is cast in the depth of our shared silence,
Echoing the song of the stone in every quiet breath,
Rising through the storm as a pillar of white and green.
The chimes hang suspended in the doorway of the heart,
Thin slivers of light waiting for the stir of the air.
When struck, they do not weep or shatter into dust,
But release a long hum that vibrates in the bone.
It is the sound of the world being put back in place,
The clarity of a bell after the thunder has passed.
The moss-in-snow pattern remains calm and unmoved,
A map of a forest that grows within the gem’s heart.
This bond is a shield that rings against the dark,
A beauty that does not fade when the sun goes down.
Though the rising water seeks to pull you from the shore,
My hand is the root that finds the stone beneath.
Let the ink-green inclusions be our secret language,
Signs of a life that was tempered in the crushing heat.
We are the polish that comes from a long endurance;
Even on these cold winter days, the song of the stone
Sustains a resonance that spans the distance between us.
刘嘉文
© 2026 Liujiawen2024. All Rights Reserved
Feb 10
Feb 10, 2026 at 12:05 PM UTC
You wished for jasperware now cry.
In the corner of the library, amphorae
hold weakness — like a white jade vase:
no carvings, no heroic memory
Plain still with matte finish
a calm vessel of life-force,
connecting heaven and earth.
But softness transcend
damages beyond medicinal repair.
Hollow things wear pride
to fill their empty core,
yet remain
painful shards of unrefined art
a broken vessel
Now who will hold?
Oct 10, 2025
Oct 10, 2025 at 7:57 AM UTC
Swimming in a sea of liquid jade
Green waves semi-opaque,
Droplets shining crystalline like jewels
Tendrils of seaweed, entangling embrace
Dec 20, 2024
Dec 20, 2024 at 2:01 AM UTC
Jade,
do you know how much you have changed me?
You have changed me so much,
and as you start to fade away, I have this conflicting feeling of if I want to remember it or not.
I connect you with the person I was before.
Jade,
Ill remember you when you pop into my dreams.
Ill remember you when theres nothing else to think about.
through sad old songs,
through poems and letters,
through grass and flowers,
Ill always remember you as my first love.
Nov 24, 2024
Nov 24, 2024 at 12:28 AM UTC
Jade is my first love.
he's the one that will always stay in my heart, even after each season passes.
one piece of my heart is always dedicated to him.
I will never forget his birthday, his favorite color, his favorite shirt,
because part of me is him.
Nov 8, 2024
Nov 8, 2024 at 3:08 PM UTC
lizard on warm rocks
an artist in their paint-speckled smock
the wind carrying fallen flowers
jade eyes meet brown
chastity belt unbound
hours upon hours
spent in between the sheets
delicate, delectable, free
Apr 19, 2023
Apr 19, 2023 at 10:43 AM UTC
put it on me like a curse
be a good man, my first
tend to my needs like a nurse
my tears are aquamarine
my heart is rose gold
my eyes are jade stones
don't think that I don't know
how the lotus unfolds
Feb 6, 2022
Feb 6, 2022 at 5:04 PM UTC
smoke across the trees
jade leaves whisper
swinging from the wind
Feb 8, 2021
Feb 8, 2021 at 8:41 AM UTC
Moon as a jade hangs serenely under the untainted sky,
A wolf nearby howls incessantly,
The cicadas cry without melody,
But the dance of leaves of a cherry blossom
Quells the anger
Aug 6, 2020
Aug 6, 2020 at 9:42 PM UTC
Your eyes are Moon in ****
Making mine as the Sun,
So bright it colours our tide,
Almost like that jade of mine.
At night when you’re out of sight,
I pray the clouds to move aside,
Unveiling your pretty light,
You are my ode to abide.
Apr 13, 2020
Apr 13, 2020 at 4:42 AM UTC
my baby’s ethereal
her jade crown, imperial
love me forever
Nov 21, 2019
Nov 21, 2019 at 11:01 PM UTC
Ma Diva veut être meublée de parenthèses
De ïambes de jade meuble aux couleurs de toutes les toques
Et manches et casaques de l 'arc-en-ciel
Toque blanche manches vertes et casaque noire,
Toque rose manches blanches et casaque verte.
A l'intérieur des petites lunes enchantées
Entre losanges, étoiles et petits pois
Ma diva, oh la vilaine, a mis des accolades et des crochets
De jade blanc, digressions ponctuées périodiquement
Par d'exquises parties de ïambes en l'air.
Qui dit ïambe dit trochée
(me suis-je permis de préciser)
Et qui dit ïambe et trochée dit scansion
Alternance dans le pied, donc dans la marche
Dans le pas cadencé, l 'amble, le trot et le galop
De la respiration longue et brève des solipèdes.
A l 'intérieur des parenthèses enchantées
Entre une espace et l 'autre de l 'écurie
J'ai vu danser ainsi une diva de forte encolure
Revendiquée modèle de Botero
Embarquer en longe un soleil pas trop chaud
Pour égayer le paddock de son haras
De vieilles pierres et de prés, de sous-bois et de beaux paysages
De musées et de concerts et de galipettes
Au bras d'un cavalier épicurien
Dragon de paille, bon à tout faire :
Lad qui la sorte à la longe
En chemise polaire de luxe
Cavalier qui la monte
Au grand steeple-chase de l'immortalité
En cajolant ses flancs de liqueur de jade blanche
Et en même temps groom qui la soigne
En divaguant en elle au gré de ses envies
De pierre semi-précieuse en transe.
Sep 16, 2019
Sep 16, 2019 at 11:00 AM UTC
Tu te dis enrobée, ma tigresse
J 'ai beau purger les yeux
Pour tenter de voir à travers ton sari de soie blanc céladon
Je ne décèle dans tes dessous
Que ton parfum de tigresse furtive et changeante
Chevauchant ton dragon de jade
Dans une jungle inhabitée.
Sauvage
Volontaire
Désinhibée
C'est ainsi qu'on te décrit à chaque illumination
C 'est ainsi qu'évidemment tu te sens
Avec Tigresse
Parfum Extraordinaire ... by Fabergé
Autour de ta taille j 'ai cru voir
Une chaîne d'argent massif où pend une fiole de jade
En forme de dent de tigre .
A l 'intérieur que sais je ?
J 'imagine de l 'eau bénite
Une capsule de cyanide ?
Ou des résidus de jus de jade
Au cas où
En cas de besoin
Sur la route ?
Sur ton *****
J'ai entr'aperçu
Un tatouage :
Un porc-épic qui feule
Hérissant et jetant ses épines
Avec comme devise
Qui s'y frotte s'y pique !
Je meurs d'envie
Que tu m'intronises dans ton ordre secret
Je meurs d'envie
D'être adoubé chevalier de l'ordre du porc-épic
Je meurs d'envie
Que, nue, tu te présentes,
Ma tigresse quatre en une ,
Dans l'un ou l 'autre
De tes plus simples appareils :
Tigresse en nourrice,
Tigresse errante,
Tigresse dans sa tanière,
Tigresse en laisse
Aug 29, 2019
Aug 29, 2019 at 2:26 AM UTC
All I wanted was a jade dragon
To give to the most beautiful girl in the world
With golden silk for hair and eyes resembling Fine China
To be honest I would give her the world if I could.
I would climb all the mountains in Tibet, to find a flower as beautiful as her
I would go diving in obsedian seas to find pearls to match her porcelain skin.
I’d go all over China to find a dress made of silk to go along with her hair which shines brighter than the sun.
All I wanted was a jade dragon to reciprocate my love
May 18, 2019
May 18, 2019 at 10:10 AM UTC
emerald linen edged with jade
a book titled with my name
and it’s heavy.
i flip through the pages
but they’re blank.
or maybe they’re written
in a way i cannot see
or maybe it was never written at all.
or maybe it’s a reflection,
an empty book, an empty me.
& maybe I’ll write it someday.
Nov 21, 2018
Nov 21, 2018 at 11:24 PM UTC
I didn't grow up with a silver spoon in my mouth
Mine was made of diamond, sapphire, ruby, and jade
Far more precious than those spoons of silver and gold
Because I didn't know money
But I knew love
The most precious gem that you can't buy
Oct 24, 2018
Oct 24, 2018 at 11:08 PM UTC
Speak
When you speak I see cascades of life.
Life and light tend to look the same.
Your light is turquoise and the color of jade sitting just beneath the surface of choppy water.
When you speak I feel heat.
You have yet to burn me.
You are the steady warmth of new born embers of a fire
yet to blaze. When you speak I smell salt water.
Even with a sting, you’re the most refreshing thing.
The ocean is not as paradoxical as your passionately
calm surface. When you speak I taste loneliness.
Bitter sweet like underripe tangerines.
I cannot know this beautiful mind of yours without encountering cold, rusty, metal walls
When you speak I hear midnight.
You know how to play the silences.
I hold my breath waiting for the next sentence you’re carefully, mysteriously orchestrating. Whisper or shout
speak to me againHole in my heart
Speak Karijinbba Beloved!
Aug 11, 2018
Aug 11, 2018 at 1:51 PM UTC
Jade is very lucky man
a man people treat with value
a man people will **** for
A man people cherish
A man with everyhtig anyone could wish for,
A man of value, life, happiness.
A man people will do anything to get
Jade is a very unlucky man
A man with no life.
A man of no understanding of life
a simple stone
a man that has no experience of life
A proud man who just waits for people to fight for it
A man who indirectly kills
A man with no thoughts or imagination for he is treated like a god
Jade is created by humans, nourished by humans and destroyed by human
What an unlucky man jade is
However, jade has a very undemanding life
he does not have to obey any human being
it is not obliged to any human
free, easy and peaceful.
Jade is a man that is lucky
Jade is a man that is unlucky
Jade is a man with an undemanding life
because it has no breathe like that of a man
May 9, 2018
May 9, 2018 at 8:12 PM UTC
crime, staring competitions, tears.
these small things that lead us further
into the fog, closer to the moths,
attached at the hip, nothing new.
nothing blue, always red.
your guitar rips through the
navy skyline, alerting the stars of war,
violet mornings creeping over the
trees as sleep envelops your eyes.
i've dreamed of something like
this, but i got more than i asked for.
i'd never go back.
i'd never go back to that place where you
don't exist, the dark, the damp, the treacherous.
becoming a threat, was the purple leaves and blinding snow.
but the next morning was lined with amnesia, we both forgave;
but we'll never forget.
Sep 6, 2017
Sep 6, 2017 at 2:29 AM UTC
She wore her strength on her sleeves
in the form of intricate tattoos,
to her all that matters is what she believes
and she'll conquer the world in her black shoes.
Her hair was dark, reaching her waist
and her eyes were the best of jade,
her examinations she all aced
her mind being as sharp as a blade.
Named after a ruthless killer
but with a heart made of gold,
she doesn't mind a thriller
her story will be told.
In a world full of magic
and light and darkness,
her story ends in tragic
but she was never heartless.
Jul 17, 2017
Jul 17, 2017 at 7:29 AM UTC
It takes a great deal out of you to admit you're wrong.
We don't ever like to own up to it.
Being wrong isn't on anyone's bucket-list.
(At least no one's I know)
I will say one pro of any apologetic situation:
It is a terrific weapon.
A decent apology can bring most anybody
to their knees.
Frankly, I think we should all relish the opportunity.
Make amends for losing the battle,
and as a result win the war.
However don't take this weapon lightly.
It will jade you.
Ruin your concept of sincerity.
Not just for yourself, but for others.
We must never forget that sometimes we really are
Sorry.
I apologize, dear friend, I seem to have ruined your dinner party
with all my talk of apology.
May 10, 2017
May 10, 2017 at 2:11 AM UTC
Makes an incision
cuts through the darkness
with night vision,
green like jade.
I made notes in my notebook,
paragraphs to pour over
later.
The goddess she tells me,
jade is the enemy,
envy
and the enemy wins.
Jan 14, 2017
Jan 14, 2017 at 12:43 PM UTC