TheBanyanTree: [UpperBranches] new year

[Mike Pingleton]

thanks, Jules.  Red Pine's translation is excellent.  It appears Wei
Ying-wu was something of a maverick in his day; he was a taoist poet
who eschewed the popular poetic forms of the day.  His poems are often
deceptively simple, but they resonate to this day.

-Mike

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Julie Anna Teague <jateague at indiana.edu> wrote:
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> That's just beautiful, Mike.  And as usual I learn something from
> your poems.  This time it was the identity of Wei Ying-wu.  I've read
> some Li Po, which one source said was Wei Ying-wu's "near
> contemporary", but now I'm very interested to read a translation of W
> Y-w's poems by Red Pine.  I also read that W Y-w and contemporaries
> influenced American poets such as William Carlos Williams, who is one
> of my favorites.  Thanks friend, for the beautiful poem, and the
> inspiring research prompt.  Roll on, drink on, sing on.
>
> Julie
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>> Quoting Mike Pingleton <pingleto at gmail.com>:
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>>> we're already rolling
>>> towards whatever
>>> might be coming, so
>>> I beg your pardon,
>>> Wei Ying-wu,
>>> I see you still have
>>> solstice wine
>>> and I have got
>>> my little boat -
>>> so you shall pour,
>>> and I will steer,
>>> and we will drink
>>> the moon down while
>>> the calendar sinks
>>> in our weaving wake
>>> as we sing.
>>>
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