Thanks Christina. The 'Seven Sages of the Bamboo
Grove' or some modification thereof sounds like a good
theme for one of your poems. All that is good, cara
--- Christina Fletcher
<[log in to unmask]> wrote: > This has
nothing to do with Billy Collins but it's a
> nice story about poets
> in trouble times, loosely extracted from Jerome
> Ch'en & Michael Bullock's
> Poems of Solitude.
>
> 'The poet Juan Chi lived in the romantic period
> known as the Three Kingdoms
> [220 -264] when the Wei controlled the north and the
> Wu and Shu shared the
> south of China. In his adult life he witnessed a
> long, painful and bloody
> transfer of power during which the life of every
> famous man was in danger.
> His moral convictions wouldn't allow him to ally
> himself with a family which
> was about to usurp the throne but he realized the
> grave danger of struggling
> ...
> but he managed to show neither his anger nor his
> joy.
> It is in his poems that we see his true self.'
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