Just One Time

现在
不太近了
不太远了
从我这里
到你那里

只一个月
以后
很远了

只一年
以后
太远了

只一个天
以前
只一个见面

只几个月
的时候
只几个书信

只足够时间
说你好
说再见

几个笑容

一片照片
两个笑容
很多记忆
四个笑容

小的笑容
变的大了
新的笑容
什么变的

Feel free to send corrections & suggestions. ...

New Beginnings

一本小卉
有本小荄
一小杯水
成长热情
如没有水
热情死了
你的选择

Too little, too much

"The young lose years from their lives,
… because they fear death too little."
"The old lose life from their years,
… because they fear death too much"

Succession

The adults of my youth
are going the way of
the elders of my youth
leaving me an orphan
in the body of an adult
posing as an elder

Passing

Mourn our loss
celebrate their life
await our turn

Erosion

waves crashing against the shoreline of our life,

eroding away our landscape

until it takes us

one by one

A picture and 10 minutes

Breath-taking peaks
veiled in wispy clouds
a narrow valley
shadowed by it's depth

I want to walk the valley
I want to wander the slopes
I want to push aside the clouds
And linger long at the peaks.
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2013 December 3

Balance

Living in the Real
Seeking the Ideal,
Striving for Balance
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2013 November

Wandering & wondering

Looking back at my life
How did I get to here?
It was small steps
with, to, and for
people who meant a lot

Sad enough to say,

 that you will never see

How you changed my way

Or what you meant to me

Just like those
who came before

Never saw me

as you saw me.

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2013 October

One of; None of

I often miss being your

   one and only

Although I'd rather be

   one of many

Than as I am now as

  none of any.

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2013 October

Embracing mistakes

I've apologized,
I've explained,

all to no avail
what the hell,

time to choose
nothing left to lose

by embracing it
and then leaving it
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2013, October

Painful paths

Ending an old path can be painful,
Beginning a new path can be more so.

One knows how the old will end,
and the paths to get there are few:
....all you have to do is pick one and follow it.

New paths are many,
and their ends are unknown.
... just like when one began on the path that is ending....

Electric wave

Electric wave

I got this poem back from a pen-pal in response to the other (overnight no less).  I was very flattered.So I translated & put it in a picture.

One Last Valley, One Last Wall

One Last Wall

ChinaPod.com -- nice resource

Learn Chinese on Your Terms at ChinesePod.com

介绍

在上网我看见你的影子
在上网我阅读你的回声

然后我觉得...

多么漂亮的影子
多么美丽的回声

可惜我知道...

我的头发太灰色了
我的肚子太肥胖了

我年轻的时候
我有胡子为了显得更老

我中年的时候
我刮脸为了显得更年轻

为什么你要想认识我？
为什么你要想看见我？

然后我考虑,...

如果你无视我, 我失去没事
如果你喜欢,我们得到一切

而且我思考....

我不可能决定你不喜欢我
只你可能决定你会喜欢我

我的心有一个盒子

在 我的心里, 有一个角落。
在这个角落里, 有一个书架
在这个书架上，有一个盒子
在这个盒子里装着我的情怀

我全部的浪漫情怀
那些部是我对你的浪漫情怀
我那它们已经纪念品一样保存看

重温那些温温柔的记忆
在我的梦想里，
我们一起开启这个盒子
我们一起取出这些情怀
我们一起尝试这些情怀，
看是否这符合
或许我已经这度成长
或许从来没有适合你
因为我只知道你的影子
因为只听得到你的回声

A 5 minute poem:

每天我看你的照片
每天我想像你声音
每天我觉得关于你
每天我等待你的信

我希望知道。。。。

日后我见看你的脸吗
日后我听见你声音吗
日后我们当面交谈吗
日后我在家等待你吗

Fire poem 火恃

bring the tinder, . . . . . . . . . . 带着那火绒

bring the paper, . . . . . . . . . . . 带着那火纸

fan the ember, . . . . . . . . . 扇起那火星儿

ignite the heart's flame . . . . 点燃那心灵的火苗


light a fire, . . . . . . . . . . . . 燃起一簇篝火

thaw the soul, . . . . . . . . . 解冻灵魂

cook to nourish, . . . . . . . 烹饪滋养着成长

slowly fan the flame . . . . . . 缓缓扇起火苗


burn in the hearth, . . . . . . . 在壁炉里燃烧

not in the house, . . . . . . . 不要在房子里呵

passion's fire . . . . . . . 热恋激情的火焰呵

is a dangerous game. . . . . 一个危险的游戏


passion's fire, . . . . . . . . . . 热恋激情的火焰呵

can be lifes pyre, . . . . . . . 也能成为生命火葬的柴薪

fight fire with fire, . . . . . . . . . . 用火焰来抗争火焰吧

before the hearth, retire . . . . . 在进入壁炉之前 悄然隐退

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（Thanks to a 依林 for correcting my chinese translation!)