Of shoes -- and ships -- and sealing wax --
Of cabbages -- and kings --
And why the sea is boiling hot --
And whether pigs have wings.
Saturday, July 24, 2010
As tears go by
You sit, weeping, on the banks of the river. The tears bitter on your young lips. But the river will flow a long way from here And your tears will sweeten the tongues of the sea.
4 comments:
hey Falstaff,
can you please tell where you get these chinese poems from?
This lovely poem dates back to the Jagger dynasty.
//just *how* do you nail the tone in these poems? How?
did you translate it? it's beautiful!
eternal is the pain of love.
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