"chen" poems
I don’t remember exactly when Budberg died, it was either two years
ago or three.
The same with Chen. Whether last year or the one before.
Soon after our arrival, Budberg, gently pensive,
Said that in the beginning it is hard to get accustomed,
For here there is no spring or summer, no winter or fall.
“I kept dreaming of snow and birch forests.
Where so little changes you hardly notice how time goes by.
This is, you will see, a magic mountain.”
Budberg: a familiar name in my childhood.
They were prominent in our region,
This Russian family, descendants of German Balts.
I read none of his works, too specialized.
And Chen, I have heard, was an exquisite poet,
Which I must take on faith, for he wrote in Chinese.
Sultry Octobers, cool Julys, trees blossom in February.
Here the nuptial flight of hummingbirds does not forecast spring.
Only the faithful maple sheds its leaves every year.
For no reason, its ancestors simply learned it that way.
I sensed Budberg was right and I rebelled.
So I won’t have power, won’t save the world?
Fame will pass me by, no tiara, no crown?
Did I then train myself, myself the Unique,
To compose stanzas for gulls and sea haze,
To listen to the foghorns blaring down below?
Until it passed. What passed? Life.
Now I am not ashamed of my defeat.
One murky island with its barking seals
Or a parched desert is enough
To make us say: yes, oui, si.
'Even asleep we partake in the becoming of the world.”
Endurance comes only from enduring.
With a flick of the wrist I fashioned an invisible rope,
And climbed it and it held me.
What a procession! Quelles délices!
What caps and hooded gowns!
Most respected Professor Budberg,
Most distinguished Professor Chen,
Wrong Honorable Professor Milosz
Who wrote poems in some unheard-of tongue.
Who will count them anyway. And here sunlight.
So that the flames of their tall candles fade.
And how many generations of hummingbirds keep them company
As they walk on. Across the magic mountain.
And the fog from the ocean is cool, for once again it is July.
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19 September is the Chinese Festival of Mid-Autumn
It’s Mid-autumn of the Bing Chen year
And I’ve been drinking happily all night.
I'm drunk
.
So I write this poem
to remember my brother, Zi You.
With a cup of wine in my hand,
I asked the blue sky
‘When will the moon be clear and bright?’
’In the heavens on this night,’ it said.
I wonder what season it is in heaven.
I'd like to ride homeward on the wind
Yet I fear the mansions of crystal and jade
are much too cold and far too high.
If I dance with my moonlit shadow,
It hardly seems a human world.
The moon comes round
Behind the red mansion,
Stoops to enter the carved wood doors,
Shining upon all sleeplessness,
it bears no grudge,
oh why
Does the moon tend to be so full
when people are far apart and alone?
We feel sorrow, we feel joy.
Whether we’re near or distant
It makes no odds.
The moon may be dim or bright,
A crescent slice or round as a ball.
This imperfection has always
been there; since time began.
Tonight may we be blessed
with a life that’s long and true.
Though a thousand miles lie
between us, we can surely share
the beauty of this autumn moon -
together.
Sep 19, 2013
Sep 19, 2013 at 4:12 PM UTC
by Gary Snyder
One afternoon the last week in April
Showing Kai how to throw a hatchet
One-half turn and it sticks in a stump.
He recalls the hatchet-head
Without a handle, in the shop
And go gets it, and wants it for his own.
A broken-off axe handle behind the door
Is long enough for a hatchet,
We cut it to length and take it
With the hatchet head
And working hatchet, to the wood block.
There I begin to shape the old handle
With the hatchet, and the phrase
First learned from Ezra Pound
Rings in my ears!
"When making an axe handle
the pattern is not far off."
And I say this to Kai
"Look: We'll shape the handle
By checking the handle
Of the axe we cut with–"
And he sees. And I hear it again:
It's in Lu Ji's Wen Fu, fourth century
A.D. "Essay on Literature"–in the
Preface: "In making the handle
Of an axe
By cutting wood with an axe
The model is indeed near at hand."
My teacher Shih-hsiang Chen
Translated that and taught it years ago
And I see: Pound was an axe,
Chen was an axe, I am an axe
And my son a handle, soon
To be shaping again, model
And tool, craft of culture,
How we go on.
Sep 5, 2015
Sep 5, 2015 at 2:27 PM UTC
Sonnet 3
Tuberose
By Sophy Chen
As I was young my mom planted some flowers
In front of our old wooden house in springs
In my memory they were peony, China rose
However what I loved the most was tuberose
In summer night it’s a nice time to me
You could sit in yard to listen the night birds
Singing on cliffs, insets singing in bushes
And look at the moon moving in night skies
However, while your heart was beating at pace
With insets singing and in the sudden
From nowhere floating a rays of fragrance
In the moon a bunch of tuberose blossoms
As these flowers always bloom in moon nights
Your great poem may be living in its fragrance
2013-10-05 In China
Oct 5, 2013
Oct 5, 2013 at 8:22 PM UTC
Aksis (Greek: ἁψίς; majority apsides, Greek: Enhancements, Improvements) is the highest point in the course [orbit] of one thing. 10000.001 1000 hours on the moon and the moon [2] ... 34C Horse and P4 / 4 (see Cicero / PH3 screen) 4P * 1000-1010 = 3-2 George. ... (July 73) Jul 42 in Italy, Poland, Picture of Hiroshima P2 Columbus, Georgia, Europe, Columbia 100 MTN Toonberg [People] About 1683 - P ***** 4/4, Chen Xin Shibiru. Cicero / P / [2] ... 1000 to 10,000,000. The King's King after many high speeds of 3-4p of Master Cranial Winter of Hiroshima HD HD-DA ... Mother's Scandic Faced Keira is a poor and unhealthy injury.) I've got a headline. Taurus is in charge of the drivers, IPA women's wives (BBC Taurus IPA), IPA women - Pastor BBC Taurus - after suffering, woman and bishops hit on the easiest arrow for the arch. Hunter, the commander of the powerful is new. Papa Andrew you Howl Yellow Chicken Mm Agbarus Bosma Test for Sinestro 1 / 3-1000. Smart 4P George Elvira, December II - Pilot 2 ... 73 [2] 3 Original Script file. 3 42-38000 Preparing People in Georgia, Georgia Paz Two Years - Shell HTS Hiroshima, Paul, George P. 2. 1683 ... English, French, Colombo, Nintendo, Canuck Black Rory, agree with national laws . .. [2], Greece, Italy, United States in sports groups ... demand for space [4] [5] [6] ATL one but we do not read, "I have heard the head twice" but this is the idea, good. When a leader dies ... buried in the Paris Labyrinth, Tess and Brie and the Kronogods Ready | A pleasant place of residence held August 1570 [11: 5] Clement Bach Bali - the world's largest Cicero sea. More than two years Hydroponics / L-2 George ovulation stream.d special at the end of four years, [4] Google has more pressure 5. [7] Using the backpacks of Dr. Clarke's four Gadgets and Sara. "The German Parliament says the House says 4/357 100 Evolve Mobile 4 R / 3 1000 MPS: 3-10000 years ago to Mali P4 2.3 2.1 (4) Investing 100 years ago", George Thomas (he less than 3).||
Oct 25, 2018
Oct 25, 2018 at 6:30 PM UTC
I extolled them as they went about their
Menial tasks in suits of silk;
Sunday bests amidst the concrete, the earth,
The broken shards of
Bamboo splintered skin, hiding interiors
And further, the broken mirrors of
The broken memories of the
Broken histories upon the
Broken backs become names wrought ancient.
Though further from fractured, a family calls,
Beholden to the absolute intent, but one wish –
Eternity amongst the bountiful brethren left behind
Atop tea-brimmed Mountains and a
One malevolent, revered benevolent,
Mao.
One more saga prerequisite this newer dynasty red –
Witness the
Wives huddled plowshares,
The daughter scribbled arithmetic
And sons assumed thrones to legacy.
I scrutinize soiled – smoke amid pear peelings,
The dirtied – unscathed and archaic,
So very fatigued – just one more nail,
For his eternity, with scratch and
Sliver of blood, a sanctity upon chin
Beyond cradled hammer,
Hand hugging thumb,
Thumb beyond nail, iron or the
Heart impaled homesick;
But I and hand asserting tie, freshly pressed,
Almost gleaming with an embezzled prestige –
Born unto Arcadia, a puzzle near complete
Continued to run, with only second’s pause to admire,
So very far from the fields of, “father,” or first blink,
While Sunday’s best weep, work and wither.
This man with joint autographed, “end,” and
Soon to be mound, history wrought dust,
A chipped Henan ceramic
And hours in attempt to breach;
Behold the back of Chen.
The title of this piece was inspired by observing constructions workers wearing suits we'd typically wear for an interview. That being said, my venture in China is near an end - years in the making. What's next? Ecuador? Japan? Morocco? Montana? Either way, I could never thank China enough for all that'd become naked before I and my pilgrimage christened, "world."
Jul 5, 2015
Jul 5, 2015 at 11:08 AM UTC
In this room he must wait,
time is standing still.
The lonely sound of a heartbeat,
ventricles overfill.
The hairs, the pores, the open sores,
where am I, who am I, where do I belong.
Moments ago his mind was active,
but the echoes of silence are holding him captive.
His first mistake,
has sealed his fate.
He counts the years,
from the sound he hears.
In this room he must wait,
time has stood still.
Oct 31, 2011
Oct 31, 2011 at 4:41 PM UTC
For a fire is the water between them. In the 1000 / Anomalous speeds of light ... Two airlines - [2] Karl Hiroshima. Torque: 4P / 3 seconds - the mobile phone. Then, 1000: he began to develop a bike. An example of the year, is the one who seems to be the men that were with him, Peter Jenner. Master East and East and East P 4/4 Collie, Collie, S3, these conditions. Chen Cicero / P / S 3 O Makena decision. For example, 100,000 years. What is the best way ... Cory, 4P / S 3 - Sound. No 2 - Car Rental George Heart conference. For password protection Elvira 1000 ... or in other words from the East; Of the gap between on the one hand, and Anna went not shall be to thee of thousands of sales. The Cicero by July 3 4/2 km, George Roberts was 73 ... 42 3. The Colorado / p / s - East and West Paul La Paz, for example, cider works, George Herrera before the assembly, 2 grams of light. Two years ago, on Hiroshima Eve - ||
Code 1000 ... ... ... to the east. Border Collie 4P / 3 atoms. From the floor
to promote the management Georgia 1000 years since the mobile phone Chrysostom preached for example, 1,000 years. Border Collie 4P / S3 -
Colly Cecondum Cicero, Chen · 4R / 3 and S Maknam. after reading
This. For example, 100,000 years. Good luck with that ... But the phone. Border Collie 4P / 3 atoms. 2 Holidays - Carbon Lapala, George Conference Center. Ten years ago, the transition from 1000 ... Elvira 10 years. 1 Peter is casting not enough to sell. Cicero News: - 4P / S2 ... 3, George Thomas and cat within the free city. Collie, two years 2, 3 and 4 years. - For example, working with East St. Paul, which gave the queen city of Cicero, Aristotle.
Oct 25, 2018
Oct 25, 2018 at 2:39 PM UTC
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Hor kina rowayegi
Do ghadi so *** de
Ki kr dit he menu
Sala dimag wicho thuhada khyal janhi nai reha
Raata nu bi
Kam te bi
Bahar bi
Gaddi wich bi
Sab jagah tuci
Sala metho jarea hi nai ja reha ki tuci kise hor de ** gaye
Breakup tak theek c
But ah ni jarea ja reha mere to
Kiwe tuci kise naal bed share kr sakde?
Kiwe bhenchod
Ik wari mere nal gal ta krdi ki meri engagment ** rahi
Had he
Mil gea *** chen?
Mil gea sakuun
Pichli baar wi had teri engagment hoi c
Menu kuj ni c pata
Meri sali koi value howe ta dase koi menu
Mar 10, 2018
Mar 10, 2018 at 8:58 PM UTC
This is the hundredth cigarette disappearing
In the night through autumn leaves choking
Some hungrily looking thousand stars
I think about you
How I lost path for hollow ends
My mind devastated for suffering
Caused by the darkening truth of soul
Ash falls again on the ground
And hides into the nothingness where I
Linger with it blindfolded as universe
With its eternity of lifeless eyes
Only for the tip of the hundred and first
cigarette the light in my heart survives
Endless disputes and arguments of
How to change what once was
Make us forget about the future
In which only we are free
This is the hundred and second cigarette
And it's closing time as it seems to be
You went to bed (the day is lost)
Why is it that every time I open my heart
Something sharp but shapeless comes out
To **** and devour your alleged hopes
To lie or tell the truth (it matters not)
To take something back
And torture that something with silence
For silence remains around
Taking more space still until
Tomorrow the light will return
With future holding the keys to happiness
Then I'll try once again
To burn your fears
To end our pain
Oct 20, 2016
Oct 20, 2016 at 6:45 PM UTC
Light and water are able to provide protection for pictures.
[2] Hiroshima Carl - 1000 / Anomalies two flat ... to measure
the speed of light. Torque: 4P / S 3 - Cell Phones. After 1000,
the motorcycle started and developed.
Peter Jenner has developed its own model
years after these models; East and East and East Colly 1000.
4P / 4 Colly S3 these condos;
Cicero Chen / P / S 3 Maekenas in elections.
For example, 100,000 years. * What is the best way ... collie, 4P / S 3 - Audio. 2 holiday - Carbon Lapala, George heart Conference.
For password protection,
and more than 1000 years ago Elvira ... In other words,
the price between the East,
and between the first and Anna
cannot be sold for mere thousands. Cicero has thousands
of me and on July 3 4/2 to F Giorgos ... George Roberts. · · · Color of 73 42 / p / s - East-West Paul Lapus, for example,
cider works, George Herrera,
for a meeting. 2 grams of light. \Two years ago
on Hiroshima Eve - ||
and, indeed, 1000 ... ... ... Numbers Passwords East West.
Border Collie 4P / s 3 - eyebrows.
Georgia's ability to manage the area immediately
after the year 1000, and the other is not, therefore,
by Chrysostom preached, mobile phones,
for example, for 1000 years. Colly 4P / S3 -
4P Colly Cecondum Chen · Cicero / 3 and S Maknae;
These options are available. For example,
100,000 years. The voice of Fortune ...
save cell phone. Border Collie 4P / s 3 - eyebrows. 2 holiday - Carbon Lapala, George is in the heart Conference.
Coded for 10 years ten years ago in 1000 ... Elvira. 1 Peter in the East,
and selling them is not enough.
Cicero News: - 4P / S2 ...
Thomas George 3
chat with the book
on the capital city. While Collies ages 2, 3 & 4 / pls. - for example,
in East St. Paul, Lauraster is running
Cissero Krista's cottage, and George.
Oct 25, 2018
Oct 25, 2018 at 1:47 PM UTC
Axe Handles
BY GARY SNYDER
One afternoon the last week in April
Showing Kai how to throw a hatchet
One-half turn and it sticks in a stump.
He recalls the hatchet-head
Without a handle, in the shop
And go gets it, and wants it for his own.
A broken-off axe handle behind the door
Is long enough for a hatchet,
We cut it to length and take it
With the hatchet head
And working hatchet, to the wood block.
There I begin to shape the old handle
With the hatchet, and the phrase
First learned from Ezra Pound
Rings in my ears!
"When making an axe handle
the pattern is not far off."
And I say this to Kai
"Look: We'll shape the handle
By checking the handle
Of the axe we cut with—"
And he sees. And I hear it again:
It's in Lu Ji's Wên Fu, fourth century
A.D. "Essay on Literature"-—in the
Preface: "In making the handle
Of an axe
By cutting wood with an axe
The model is indeed near at hand."
My teacher Shih-hsiang Chen
Translated that and taught it years ago
And I see: Pound was an axe,
Chen was an axe, I am an axe
And my son a handle, soon
To be shaping again, model
And tool, craft of culture,
How we go on.
Gary Snyder, "Axe Handles" from Axe Handles. Copyright © 1983 by Gary Snyder.
Nov 19, 2023
Nov 19, 2023 at 10:51 AM UTC
such is the idea of spreschen...
that drummer from
the corrs's?
that drummer *****
just reminds me of the year 1998...
and had i the resources to allow
her to reciprocate my "ambitions"...
i'd **** her so hard as to silence
the bell-tower of westminster;
dog talk... huh?! keeping a tidy and
clean vocab will not make people
behave in the way you might
consider mirror-image of the
use of words (in counter, via some
morbid staging of etiquette standards
left "in expectation")...
i'll talk ***** you do *****
everyone happy?
good... come the next genocide;
then i'll be in the choir of castratos:
gloria! glo-ria! hosannah in the ebb!
you can't but be sarcastic with these
people.
Mar 17, 2017
Mar 17, 2017 at 7:09 PM UTC