Guest guest Posted January 20, 2004 Report Share Posted January 20, 2004 Han Shan My Heart Is Like Autumn Moon The trail to Cold Mountain is faint the banks of Cold Stream are a jungle birds constantly chatter away I hear no sould of people gusts of wind lash my face flurries of snow bury my body day after day no sun year after year no spring ~ Han Shan, trans. Red Pine Thirty years ago I was born into the world. A thousand, ten thousand miles I've roamed. By rivers where the green grass grows thick, Beyond the border where the red sands fly. I brewed potions in a vain search for life everlasting, I read books, I sang songs of history, And today I've come home to Cold Mountain To pillow my head on the stream and wash my ears. ~ Han Shan, trans. Gary Snyder I spur my horse past the ruined city; the ruined city, that wakes the traveler's thoughts: ancient battlements, high and low; old grave mounds, great and small. Where the shadow of a single tumbleweed trembles and the voice of the great trees clings forever, I sigh over all these common bones — No roll of the immortals bears their names. ~Han Shan tr. by Burton Watson If I try to say anything about this, consider that it is everything simultaneously speaking to everything. Just so, how can anything be said, except in the saying of it something new emerges. The earth speaks in new grass, snow, chrysanthemums. The mountain speaks in rock, pine, riffling stream. The sky speaks in stars, moons, clouds. Han Shan hears, weeps, laughs, pines -- Ah, what open secrets within your own bright true mind shine! ~ Mazie & b, "The Missing 300 Poems of Han Shan LoveAlways, Mazie Let the new MSN Premium Internet Software make the most of your high-speed experience. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 20, 2004 Report Share Posted January 20, 2004 , "Mazie Lane" <sraddha54@h...> wrote: > My Heart Is Like Autumn Moon The trail to Cold Mountain is faint the banks of Cold Stream are a jungle birds constantly chatter away I hear no sould of people gusts of wind lash my face flurries of snow bury my body day after day no sun year after year no spring ~ Han Shan, trans. Red Pine no, no, i will refuse to see the cold mountain, and deny the refreshment of the cool stream, i cannot accept the chatter of birds and the comming and going of crowds, my eyes won't see and my senses will shut up to the marvels of this world,... unless you, dear, with your pure hands, bring me the world in the nicest fashion, drop by drop and each like a present,... unless your voice tells me the how and the what sense by sense grain of consciousness by grain of consciousness eric Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 20, 2004 Report Share Posted January 20, 2004 , "eric paroissien" <brahmanshines@a...> wrote: > , "Mazie Lane" <sraddha54@h...> > wrote: > > > My Heart Is Like Autumn Moon > > > The trail to Cold Mountain is faint > > the banks of Cold Stream are a jungle > > birds constantly chatter away > > I hear no sould of people > > gusts of wind lash my face > > flurries of snow bury my body > > day after day no sun > > year after year no spring > > ~ Han Shan, trans. Red Pine > > no, no, i will refuse to see the cold mountain, > and deny the refreshment of the cool stream, > i cannot accept the chatter of birds > and the comming and going of crowds, > my eyes won't see and my senses will shut up > to the marvels of this world,... > unless you, dear, with your pure hands, > bring me the world in the nicest fashion, > drop by drop and each like a present,... > unless your voice tells me the how and the what > sense by sense > grain of consciousness by grain of consciousness > eric (i will hear the world only from the mouth of a poet) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 20, 2004 Report Share Posted January 20, 2004 Oh Mazie! How beautiful. What a great gift. You have bles't us all. Very much love Warwick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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