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Unread 07-11-2017, 07:41 AM
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Maryann has a terrific poem up today at The New Verse News.

https://newversenews.blogspot.com/20...nment-job.html

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Unread 07-11-2017, 07:56 AM
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A gem.
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Good one, Maryann.
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Thank you kindly, friends. (The poet, of course, is supposed to be Du Fu. I've asked for a correction.)
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Nice, Maryann.
It has a glow.

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Excellent, Maryann. A timely poem that expands beyond our times.
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What a fine poem. Marianne probably knows some of Du Fu's answers to her question, such as this one in David Young's version:

I AM A MADMAN

My thatched cottage stands
just west of Thousand Mile Bridge

this Hundred Flower Stream
would please a hermit fisherman

bamboo sways in the wind
graceful as any court beauty

rain makes the lotus flowers
even more red and fragrant

but I no longer hear from friends
who live on princely salaries

my children are always hungry
with pale and famished faces

does a madman grow more happy
before he dies in the gutter?

I laugh at myself--a madman
growing older, growing madder.
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