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NIGHT ON THE GREAT RIVER
by Meng Hao-jan
Steering my little boat towards a misty islet,
I watch the sun descend while my sorrows grow:
In the vast night the sky hangs lower than the treetops,
But in the blue lake the moon is coming close. (Translated by William Carlos Williams)
August 11th, 2009.
August 12th, 2009 at 12:59 am
really beautiful poem
August 12th, 2009 at 12:33 pm
Another poem lost in translation by William Williams. Massacred. He’s worse than Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin and Obama combined.
August 12th, 2009 at 1:50 pm
You’re such a freak Colin… Yeah I’m sure you preferred it in the original 5th century Chinese. WCW is a genius. Wrote the introduction to Howl, amongst many other things. Three translatIons of the same poem here:
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16442
August 12th, 2009 at 1:56 pm
I was screwing with you, but thanks for caring.
Nice choice of photo, by the way.
August 12th, 2009 at 3:28 pm
Arrah, I was only messin with ya back. Pretty impreessive that I managed to find, copy and paste that link from my phone tho, eh?
August 12th, 2009 at 5:30 pm
Thought you would have adopted that iPhone by now. Apply now, single surrogate fathers have rights too.
And yeah, impressive searching, the 3 versions are fairly different. Might go back to my original comment.
August 12th, 2009 at 6:23 pm
and i thought christy brown the last day was bad this blog is bollix
hot talk about american football and mike mac heading the ball
shit talk about football,something about a pizza or something
the onion wouldnt get a look in and the onion is shit
the team from my local area is far superior to the local team from your area
not as shit as lisa hannigan mind because thats the worst song I EVER heard
and anyone who fancies that zooey lady would want to try wanking with their paul charles and not their sensibilities
AM I RIGHT LADIES
i am of course
(and i’m handsome)
stearing my hand around my japs eye
I watch the sun descend while my sorrows grow
the heliocentricity of my japs eye
im about to make shit of my abdomen
August 12th, 2009 at 7:07 pm
Wow Baz, that’s a contender for greatest ever comment.
Whichever one of my friends you are, you’ve certainly started early today.
Care to elaborate on the Paul Charles bit? I don’t quite understand…
August 12th, 2009 at 7:42 pm
wow is right,that guys a fkin genius
August 12th, 2009 at 7:47 pm
raotflmho
August 12th, 2009 at 8:13 pm
i dont know you at all i wouldnt know you if i saw you,youve a good blog altho youd want to lay of that atheism stuff its been done to death
fair dues on taking that twentymajor down a peg the guys a spineless prick
August 12th, 2009 at 8:53 pm
F.Y.I. Bazluhrman / almcleod / albert / cassidy…
You realise you used your real email address on that last post? Anyway, have one fer me, man!
August 12th, 2009 at 8:57 pm
what’s a paul charles
eat yrself fitter
g’wan butler boy!
August 12th, 2009 at 9:06 pm
Holy God…
Anyone we know Eoin??
August 12th, 2009 at 9:31 pm
Actually, no. But he’s a regular enough poster on here. And fair play to him…