Wednesday, November 10, 2010

An extract from “Mourning Lu Yin” by Meng Chiao




Celestial immortals mourn such a sage-
Bones transformed, spirit becomes stars

Your poems all rising through heaven,
Sharpening constellations into bright

Clarities. Like the rarest ancient poems,
Your are pure spirit. We call ethereal

Poets of renown banished immortals,
Ascending and descending without end.

For in poems we’re made pure by death
And without them we live mean lives.

Struck metal’s the perfect song for you,
Song bequeathed all repose down all time.

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