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Saturday, November 26, 2011

A Poem About the Gan Yu

Does it mean

Feelings about things

Met along life’s way

Or better yet just

Things encountered


Such is the nature

Of life in translation

And such are the transformations

As we move from tongue

To tongue


Sometimes the choices

Seem very enormous

Almost overwhelming


Still

At the end of the day

The Gan Yu shall

Speak for itself


If you’ll just kindly do your best

To keep me and Chen Zi’ang

Both far from mind


Instead try striking out

On your own

First by crouching down

In the depths of the forest


And then calmly wait

Listening for the cuckoo’s

Loud lament

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