Gary
This is a wonderful series of poems. It has inspired me to write another
poem arising from thoughts about Wang Wei rather than a reinterpretation.
Good work.
bw
James
>From: Gary Blankenship <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: New: The Ninth Wang Wei: An Unintended Interlude
>Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 08:05:33 -0700
>
>This was the most difficult to date, three separate versions before I found
>this one.
>
>The ninth in a series of transformations of Wang Wei's River Wang poems.)
>
>A River Transformed IX: After Wang Wei's The Cornel Grove (7)
>
>An Unintended Interlude
>
>A sign flashes green - red; red - green:
>O_en _losed O_en _losed O_en,
>the café parking lot promises weeds
>and gossip from a month old newspaper,
>our destination beyond thistle fields
>and crabapple hedges.
>
>Leaden clay spatters the windshield,
>wind pushes us towards an edge.
>Our journey less than half over,
>you will pour me the first cup
>and argue that we can not outrun the storm.
>I will shrug despite one shoulder's pain.
>
>Tipsy birds pass fruit from beak to beak,
>each bead a suggestion of promises to come.
>
>The literal translation from a web site.
>
>Bear fruit red and green
>Again as if flower further open
>Hill at if remain guest
>Place here cornel cup
>
>http://www.chinese-poems.com/ww6.html
>
>The fruit has been translated as dogwood berries. A cornel cup would be a
>cup made of dogwood. The poem has been titled Rivers of Dogwood, but is
>seldom translated.
>
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