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March 14, 2006
Some readings, if you want to catch up.
I've been terribly remiss at updating the day's Lenten readings, but the Mister vanished into the revolutionary sunset and took the laptop with him. Blogging, let alone writing, at the squatty iMac, is just not as comfortable as writing in my library from the futon with all my books spread out around me. So I am trying to get caught up on my daily Lenten writing (snort!), which is the reason for the daily readings in the first place. I've started to focus on a series of poems about a group of people on an island for a long weekend. May it never see the light of day.
March 10: From Lu Chi's Wen Fu
Calm the heart's dark waters;
collect from deep thoughts
the proper names for things.
March 11: a haiku from Buson
White blossoms of the pear
and a woman in moonlight
reading a letter.
March 12: "Spur of the Moment" by Li Po
Facing wine, I missed night coming on
and falling blossoms filling my robes.
Drunk, I rise and wade the midstream moon,
birds soon gone, and people scarcer still.
March 13: "Together, We All Go Out Under the Cypress Trees in the Chou Family Burial Grounds" by T'ao Ch'ien
Today's skies are perfect for a clear
flute and singing koto. And touched
this deeply by those laid under these
cypress trees, how could we neglect joy?
Clear songs drift away anew. Emerald wine
starts pious faces smiling. Not knowing
what tomorrow brings, it's exquisite
exhausting whatever I feel here and now.
Posted by eek at March 14, 2006 12:16 AM
Comments
Oh, did you want the laptop? My bad.
;-)
Posted by: JC at March 14, 2006 03:01 PM