As Fall Begins, I Look Within

As Fall Begins, I Look Within Li Yi (746-829)  Ten thousand fears have come to fix my life,As on this mirrored shore I gaze uneased—Here all I see has turned my temples whiteAnd now it’s time to face the autumn breeze.   Chinese 立秋前一日覽鏡李益 萬事銷身外生涯在鏡中唯將滿鬢雪明日對秋風 Pronunciation Lì Qiū Qián Yī …

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Songs of a New Morning

from the shorewhere I can see it allas it floats away to some other landwhere the sun continues to shinefor centuries and treetopssway in the windfilling the grasswith wandering pollen           * worn outlike a flag flownfor many years           * alone herewhere your lips oncehad left a mark           * onceI looked …

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