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Duyen*

phishgodphishgod Posts: 133
edited January 2004 in Poetry, Prose, Music & Art
Duyen*

(for L.)

Orange peels,
rose buds,
cherries,
the willow
bends to
the sun.

Cinnamon sticks,
lily seeds,
licorice,
the pine
rises to
the moon.

Temple drum,
red dust,
duyen-
life: borrows,
death repays,
inevitable destiny.

--March 30, 2002
@pth

*Fated love, after all previous lives.
All references credited to endnotes,
of “Spring Essence, The Poems
of Ho Xuan Huong”, translated by
John Balabon, 2000.
rockon,
phishgod
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  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Posts: 12,223
    Please, I's in de blinkin way
    But ah mus' rilly rilly say
    ah love dat pruddy colour orange
    Even if dat make me sterr-ange
    :)
  • phishgodphishgod Posts: 133
    Orange
    is of course
    the word
    each poet
    is compelled
    to apply
    creatively
    since there
    is no English rhyme
    (I would say
    there is
    no English
    reason, either,
    but that
    would reflect
    my blo-oo-dy
    Highland heritage, harumph,
    har har),
    and oranges
    have some
    special significance
    of course
    for my
    lover & best friend,
    and her
    best friend :):),
    and herein
    lies intense
    brightly colored
    symbology in
    Viet zen--
    duyen-- reflective
    feminine mystery,
    fragranty sweet,
    flavorful, fresh
    rish & juizzy,
    aye: Orange!!

    What a Beauty!

    ty
    rockon,
    phishgod
  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Posts: 12,223
    You wouldn't think dis greeny Irish fella here would find all his love in orange!


    But, then, I'm sure it has something to do with all those trippy trippy days in my twenties......learning the colours, only to to sense their meaning now, in a love:)
  • YellowYellow Posts: 699
    orange rules...
    :)



    you have a PM, phishgod :)
    It's all yellow.


  • YellowYellow Posts: 699
    Originally posted by FinsburyParkCarrots
    You wouldn't think dis greeny irish fella here would find all his love in orange!


    But, then, I'm sure it has something to do with all those trippy trippy days in my twenties......:)

    y'all said something about clans the other day
    and i finally remembered...
    my heritage traces to the campbell clan :)
    someday i'll chew on some guiness in ireland
    until then, i'll just keep chewing on it here :)
    It's all yellow.


  • phishgodphishgod Posts: 133
    Green & Orange, & Yellow
    Let's hear it for the green & the orange,
    and of course,
    the Yellow.
    We is a colorful group this rainbow's edge of night.
    Later all, & thanks for the read & comments.../
    rockon,
    phishgod
  • phishgodphishgod Posts: 133
    & I be from clan Hamilton
    & my gurl be clan MacGregor,
    and we gonna come over visit someday,
    see the fam castle & jewels & stuff,
    and I really had a gas
    in the Boston Fine Arts Museum
    where they had hauled over my
    clan's dining room
    piece by piece and reassembled it.

    I felt right at home,
    and I still am not sure
    why the guards wouldn't let
    me sit & eat me snack in peace,
    must have been English or somethin' :)

    & we just love our Highland Grog, m'lady & I/

    thanks for the read
    rockon,
    phishgod
  • SoundSound Posts: 579
    Bigger the love
    greater the fall
    It was a dream, not a nightmare. A beautiful dream I could never imagined in a thousand nods. I saw this girl next to me, she wasn't beautiful until she smiled. And I felt that smile come at me in heat waves following. Soaking through my body and out my finger tips in shafts of color. And I knew somewhere in the world, somewhere, that there was love for me.

    Jim Carrol
  • john girljohn girl Posts: 308
    vita men
    c'est
    de light
  • phishgodphishgod Posts: 133
    Thanks for the read, & for your comments.
    rockon,
    phishgod
  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Posts: 12,223
    Originally posted by Yellow
    y'all said something about clans the other day
    and i finally remembered...
    my heritage traces to the campbell clan :)
    someday i'll chew on some guiness in ireland
    until then, i'll just keep chewing on it here :)

    Plenty of Campbells in my dad's home village of Ballycroy, County Mayo...if your folks are from nearby...we might even be related! :)
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