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Translation Trashbin - 33. Those willowy boys

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Those willowy boys –

And two other poems by Hanzan [i]

 

 

No. 212

 

To talk of food will part you with hunger;

To speak of clothes will leave you feeling exposed:

Eat food to be full; wear clothes to stay warm;

Give flesh what it's due, but find peace inwardly.

 

 

No. 229

 

Those willowy boys, four or five of them,

Are each blue-balled cocks at eighteen years old

But make companionable mates for years,

Copping postures of love, like foxing on pages.

 

 

No. 227

 

The dirt-poor yokel owns a full ten inches,

As the rich dog can claim but a measly three.

The best position is to be between them,

To enjoy the poor’s riches in the alms of the rich.

 

 

 

 

 

 


[i] “Those willowy boys – And two other poems” Hanzan, Tang Dynasty poet, circa 650

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How amazing that these feel as if they were written yesterday, yet they are from so very long ago. 

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49 minutes ago, 84Mags said:

How amazing that these feel as if they were written yesterday, yet they are from so very long ago. 

Well, I'm not the first to observe that poetry is about the most perfect time machine mankind will ever get :)

Thanks for reading and commenting, 84Mags! I appreciate it

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