bowl in the right
calabash in the left:
drunkard empties
& then fills his cup --
amid missing time.
Calabash Time [Kyōka]
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Tag Archives: time
PROMPT: This Evening
What are you doing this evening?
Who can know such things? I’m not a fortuneteller. But as I just came off a travel cycle, a betting person would put his money on something sleep related.
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PROMPT: Ideal Week
My ideal week would consist of seven days, each day of about twenty-four hours. You could fit four of them in a month with room to spare.
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PROMPT: Favorite Time
When all is quiet and harmonious, and one anticipates good things are to come.
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Anachronism [Haiku]
the temple might stand
a thousand years ago,
but for that city.
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Floating [Haiku]
boats float the river;
balloons through the sky.
i float through time.
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Shade [Haiku]
summer day from shade:
time attunes to floating
clouds and ducks.
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Mountain Crumbles [Haiku]
once a mountain,
now just boulders; someday
not a hill will remain.
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“Inspired by Late Spring” by Ye Cai [w/ Audio]
Sparrows cast on my desk their shadows in pair,
And willow down falls in my inkstone here and there.
Sitting by the window, I read the Book of Change,
Not knowing when has Spring gone, I only feel strange.
Note: This is the joint translation of Xu Yuanchong and Xu Ming found in the Golden Treasury of Quatrains and Octaves (a Bilingual edition of 千家诗 “Thousands of Poems”) on which they collaborated (i.e. China Publishing Group: Beijing (2008) p. 40)
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PROMPT: Future Travel
I plan to travel to the future one minute at a time.
At least until they invent a time machine that can transport something bigger than a subatomic particle, and only milliseconds into the future at that.
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