A HELPLESS MAN...IN AN ENDLESS NIGHT
WHILE I AM AWAY, DELVING DEEPLY INTO RESEARCH for next great documentary — to be announced later — I thought I'd share a few of "my favorite things" until my return. As you have read in past blogs, poetry is one of my secret loves.
Here's a lovely one from the famed Chinese poet Li Yu. Enjoy.
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Love-sickness
Her hair: tied up with a ribbon
And fixed with a jade pin;
Her flowing robes,
soft and thin;
Between her adorned brows
a shallow furrow.
October: too much wind
Accompanied by rain
Beating on two or three
palm trees.
A helpless man
in an endless night.
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Labels: "Li Yu", "love poems", Chinese poets
posted by Kevin P. Miller at 11:51 AM
2 Comments:
I too Love poetry. This is a very beautiful poem. Thank you for sharing your favorite things.
Nice poem, poetry is a dying art form and mindless mainstream music is one of the biggest reasons, but it can also be used as the reason to do something meaningful. Future documentary perhaps.
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