solitary flower
bows in a Spring breeze --
then stands upright.
Solitary [Haiku]
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Tag Archives: Spring
“Impromptu Lines Written on a Spring Day” [春日偶成] by Cheng Hao [程颢]
Towards noon fleecy clouds waft in the gentle breeze;
I cross the stream amid flowers and willow trees.
What do the worldlings know about my hearty pleasure?
They'd only take me for a truant fond of leisure.
Note: This is the joint translation of Xu Yuanchong and Xu Ming found in the edition of Golden Treasury of Quatrains and Octaves on which they collaborated (i.e. China Publishing Group: Beijing (2008.))
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Springfall [Haiku]
mountain springtime:
dust cleared by falling water,
climbers swell & green.
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Spring Pasture [Haiku]
Spring’s arrival
brings lush, green grass;
livestock keeps it trim.
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Spring’s Story [Haiku]
unfurled buds,
not drooped to gravity,
tell Spring’s story.
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First Drops [Haiku]
Spring Stream [Haiku]
willow-lined stream
swells with a rush of
Spring white water.
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“Autumn Within” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow [w/ Audio]
It is autumn; not without,
But within me is the cold.
Youth and spring are all about;
It is I that have grown old.
Birds are darting through the air,
Singing, building without rest;
Life is stirring everywhere,
Save within my lonely breast.
There is silence: the dead leaves
Fall and rustle and are still;
Beats no flail upon the sheaves
Comes no murmur from the mill.
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Spring Snow [Haiku]
Rain Strike [Haiku]
rain strike seen
in ripples on the pond
before felt on skin.
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