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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