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Habitats No. 4 (Yangtze River): photo by wang yuanling, 13 June 2011
After Wang Wei
Chilling down by the water
stopped to watch clouds drift
clouds drift clouds drift
bumped into mr. green
talked laughed forgot
it was time to go
stopped to watch clouds drift
clouds drift clouds drift
bumped into mr. green
talked laughed forgot
it was time to go
Chilling down by the water: Wang Wei (699-759), English by TC
The subjective city -- No. 1. A balloon on the banks of the Yangtze River, Chongqing: photo by wang yuanling, 15 March 2009
Fog in the river (Yangtze): photo by wang yuanling, 15 October 2009
Helmet (Chongqing): photo by wang yuanling, 2009 [posted 25 February 2010]
Rowing (Chongqing): photo by wang yuanling, 11 june 2010
In the fog (Chongqing Wulong): photo by wang yuanling, 4 June 2010
The subjective city -- No. 10. The gang (Chongqing): photo by wang yuanling, 17 March 2009
The subjective city -- No. 25. (Flood, Yangtze River, Chongqing): photo by wang yuanling, 27 July 2009
Bridge (Chongqing): photo by wang yuanling, 2009 [posted 7 January 2010]
7 comments:
I love this. I love the Mr. Green. Was there a Mr. Green in the original? And what is that helmet, that red balloon on the motorbike?
About the red balloon helmet, one would like to think the fellow on the bike has everything under control.
Mr. Green owes his existence to Translator's Liberty.
Just the thing for my soggy Columbia Basin morning!!! Beautiful and hilarious!!!
This is lovely and loose and precise at the same time. Reading up on Wang Wei, I noticed Su Shi's comment: "The quality of Wang Wei’s poems can be summed as, the poems hold a painting within them. In observing his paintings you can see that, within the painting there is poetry." I think you've captured that here. We adopted Jane in China and experienced Pearl River promenading in Guangchou and had numerous conversations about the recently receded flooding near Wuhan, our adoption city. The pictures remind me of our trip, which was a long time ago now and actually seems even longer than the actual number of years might suggest. Much water under the bridge since then. Curtis
Oh, I like Translators Liberty!
Soggy in Brummagen too
talked laughed forgot
it was time to go
Still here.
A lurker has pipped up a wee squeak of a backchannel suggestion to the effect that the red balloon helmet is in fact a set of umbrellas.
And I'm so like no way.
Dude's got trouble enough as it is.
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