Cloud Poetry

Of the morning

Of the happenings of today

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Bits of Chinese proverbs and wisdom in Mandarin and English

China’s Classic Anthology of T’ang and Sung Dynasty Years, translated by Red Pine

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A compilation of Classical Japanese poems dating to around 1230-40 and assembled by the renowned poet and scholar Fujiwara no Taika. In English and Japanese.

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Poems from Yanyi’s The Year of Blue Water

Today’s events in their full banality

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Be as true to each other as this dial is to the sun.

Begone about Thy business.

Come along and grow old with me; the best is yet to be.

Hours fly, Flowers die. New days, New ways, Pass by. Love stays.

Hours fly, Flowers bloom and die. Old days, Old ways pass. Love stays.

I only tell of sunny hours.

I count only sunny hours.

Let others tell of storms and showers, I tell of sunny morning hours.

Let others tell of storms and showers, I'll only count your sunny hours.

Life is but a shadow: the shadow of a bird on the wing.

Self-dependent power can time defy, as rocks resist the billows and the sky.

Time, like an ever-rolling stream, bears all its sons away.

Today is Yesterday's Tomorrow

When I am gone, mark not the passing of the hours, but just that love lives on.

The Concern of the Rich and the Poor

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A selection of sacred English Jacobean poetry of the Reign of King James the First (1603-1625)

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Two short stories by Jennie Egerdie, published in McSweeney’s

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