Salmonlilies

Tag: poem analysis

  • 送友人

    青山横北郭白水绕东城此地一为别孤蓬万里征浮云游子意落日故人情挥手自兹去潇潇班马鸣李白 First four lines capture the event as a painter depicts the scene. From this we depart. this verse, a farewell to us - ”I am not without you” carried with clouds, laden on horses – the long solitary journey begins.  Sun sets in. Our absence is present here *as much as I try to point to…

  • Why this world can’t be just bits and digits

    Everyday is honey be that of lemon or dew. Everyday is juice of creation and love. I want to mix fluids with you. —————— Aku, cinta banget puisi that I want to crush it in my palm crush it a brown stiff autumn leaf crush it a moth to fragments fine as fish food I…

  • All coincidental pieces fall and fit to a pattern

    at a lecture by Robin Grove, who on that occasion, recited Beowulf by Seamus Heaney, I couldn’t catch any of the words being a foreign student of English intimidated by any poetry, I just sat there listening, surrendering to the sounds It was years later when I had to teach poetry that I started to…

  • random poem #1

    赠内人 禁门宫树月痕过，媚眼惟看宿鹭巢。斜拔玉钗灯影畔，剔开红焰救飞蛾。 张祜 —————— To the lady one gazes from afar. In trespassing, I too wish to be released from my burning desire, by your nonchalant act: 斜拔，踢开，救飞蛾 (emphasis on the sound echoing 内人, suggesting another meaning/metaphor).