Siren, a poem dedicated to you

[tmuyo]

no i didn't write it. it's an interesting poem that made me think of you and i thought you might appreciate it. it's by the taiwanese modern poet Qin Zihao.

Seashells

Seashells, Neptune's temples
When starlight knocks at midnight
the temple doors open
And there at the edge of the sea
a shell calls out your name--
Ah! Beautiful daughter of Neptune

Like a shell, my house has no rafters
Like a shell, my house is small
My door opens to the azure sky
The vista rolls out, unhurriedly
to the limitless empryean
through my window, night after night
the moon and stars come calling

The sea is inside, telling a storyabout Neptune
Music flows, you are asleep in the sea
Asleep in the sea, the reflection of your light
like a rainbow
Revealed in the mirror's resplendent surface
Trembling, I bow down and worship
Your forty black roses
And one red camellia

Says the sea, come float in me
Says the earth, come weigh on me
Yet here we are
Beyond space, beyond time

The lines on a shell no longer mark
morning and evening tides
Numbers have returned to the primordial,
the recondite

This place where we are is an alien realm
So, come float in me, says the sea
And a shell calls out your name

-- Qin Zihao

 

[Siren]

timmmy oo that was sweet and very nice

 

[tmuyo]

nope...not i says the tmuyo

it's from my new textbook that i actually like. ^_^ it's for my 20th century modern taiwanese lit class.

 

[Siren]

Well it is lovely

 

[Debbie]

Re: timmmy oo that was sweet and very nice

but I am not a big poem fan.

it was beautiful
I will say that

but I kinda blank out
1/2 way thru a poem.........


Dont know why.....
does anyone else do the same thing?

My hubby does it all the time. Even when trying to read mine! Nothing personal he says, it's just not my sort of thing.

 

[Siren]

I know poems are deep and thoughtful and lovely