Saturday, 15 February 2014

Down by the River


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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


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]
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7 comments:

  1. Nin Andrews15 February 2014 at 07:28

    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?

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  2. TC15 February 2014 at 07:40

    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.

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  3. Poet Red Shuttleworth15 February 2014 at 09:39

    Just the thing for my soggy Columbia Basin morning!!! Beautiful and hilarious!!!

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  4. ACravan15 February 2014 at 10:53

    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

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  5. Nin Andrews15 February 2014 at 13:12

    Oh, I like Translators Liberty!

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  6. Mose2316 February 2014 at 01:28

    Soggy in Brummagen too

    talked laughed forgot
    it was time to go

    Still here.

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  7. TC16 February 2014 at 05:04

    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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