The Temple Teeming Fragrance

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Open Poetry #23

The Temple Teeming Fragrance

Professor Gloom
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since 2000-07-23

Posts 3082
of Depression

0 posted 2002-10-28 03:24 PM

Translation of
Passing the Temple Teeming with Fragrance
Wang Wei

Where is the fragrance
And the Temple that teems scent,
Beneath mountain clouds,
Many miles outwardly sent.
Through trackless tall pines
Where priest bells you hear from far,
Echoing down stream
As river cries to where you are.
The sun shines palely
Across the icy blue sky
Till twilight send long shades
Creeping to the pool
That the river bend has made,
In meditation,
Thoughts expels chaos dragon,
The clear mind smelling
Incense on winds imagined.

Gloom

The Direct translation
Not/ know/ teeming/ fragrance/ temple

Many/ miles/ enter/ clouds/ peak

Ancient / trees/ no/ man(’s)/ path

Deep/ mountain/ where(’s)/ priest(’s)/ bell

Fountain(spring)/sound/choke(sob, swallow)/ perilous/ rock

Sun / color/ chills/ green/ pines

Dusk/ daytime/ empty/ pool/ bend

Pacify/ Ch’an( Meditation)/ exorcise/ poisonous/ dragon

Although I am calling this a translation,
it could also be thought of as an inspiration;
since much is lost in the change of languages.
NOTE *
In the original Language the 1st, 3rd, an 5th line
have sounds that would be thought of as rhyming.

nakdthoughts
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since 2000-10-29

Posts 19200
Between the Lines

1 posted 2002-10-28 03:46 PM

this is a perfect Renaissance Poem..would have gone nicely with my gift of incense and a dragons head ...

M

the_loner_23
Member Ascendant

since 2002-06-08

Posts 5479
Jacksonville, Florida, USA

2 posted 2002-10-28 04:26 PM

Awesome write

Cold hands means a warm heart

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