Photo by Ritesh Man Tamraka
Ringing out the old, with a reminder from an old friend:
little tail twitching and gone...this world
Photo by Terence
And ringing in the new, from my new friend, Sho-u:
The first dream of the year;
I kept it a secret
And smiled to myself.
Sho-u
translated by R. H. Blyth
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Artwork by Edward Lear
a new year--
the same nonsense
piled on nonsense
translated by David G. Lanoue
best,
Don
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There is a beginning.There is no beginning of that beginning.
Chuang-Tzu.
And all take note that the little glorious monostitch at the start was written by Don the humble.
Joy, thanks so much for everything (including keeping me relatively honest). HNY! Don
Thank you Don. Love your haiku. Thanks to Joy for pointing it out, duh to me. My best wishes for more of your poetic wisdom and then some...Andrea
my intro in to " 'it' -all" was that 1971 book by William McNaughton: The Taoist Vision
Chuang Tzu AND Lao Tzu, simultaneously.
now your to-the-pont post today... thanks
very refreshing way to begin again ... naked-ly
(Sho-u ? new to me. and the two new Ryokan books.
little tail twitching and gone...this world
Say no more, except thank you Joy for revealing the attribution; most of all, deep bow to your poem here, Don — all that is needed and forgotten, every day. May I share your poem at word pond, with attribution? ~ Donna
Now I'm wondering about the dream I had last night.
Happy 2013!
In celebration of the day, this from Issa:
to
my
open
palms
flitting
down
snow
[Translated by David G. Lanoue; found in Issa: Cup-of-Tea Poems, published 1991 by Asian Humanities Press, Berkeley, California.)
Cheers!
Andrea, thanks so much for the kind words. Occasionally, Joy has to point out that I've written something even to me. D
Ed, thanks for taking up Joy's thread (& the post's spirit) with Chuang Tzu and Lao Tzu. Cheers.
Donna:
It would be an honor to have you share it ... thank you.
Don
Theresa:
Have a great new year - Don
Lyle:
Thanks for sharing this early layout by David of Issa's poem.
To follow on Ed's thought, to the very point, precisely.
Don
found the same two "Sho-u" poems that you did
however
in McNaughton's 1971 book that i am now RE-READING
I just came across Ezra Pound's translation ('take on')
a Li Po poem (Ancient Wisdom, Rather Cosmic) which opens with
"So-Shu dreamed "
now, dig this me-thinks that this "Sho-su" is actually
So-shu !
read this starting at left bottom:
http://books.google.com/books?id=8uEqOrAnat0C&pg=PA5&lpg=PA5&dq=so-shu+pound&source=bl&ots=NaZGXf5tko&sig=MqXBDQkAU4WE_Mc1p9xM0NM-tLo&hl=en&sa=X&ei=oVXkUIe-JO-D0QHmpoGYDw&ved=0CDoQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=so-shu%20pound&f=false
this makes perfect sense to me
as
we can call Sho-u/So-Shu by
his real name... (as uncovered in the page out of this
book
just another mixed-up dumb
hermit poet ?
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