[NOTE: this is a revised version of an earlier beginning of it posted some years ago]
" everything is descending,
even the scholarship of the
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for Mooky,
not even two hearts
could contain your
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Of Po Chu-i, Chinese Governor & Poet (772-846 CE) :
As one of his poems explains, he suffered from paralysis
at the end of his life, one leg becoming useless.
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[poet's note to the reader:
read the 'x's' as the word
'times' as in multiplication]
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[the Martin guitar is considered by
aficionados to be the best in the world]
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'I, Minimus, a boy,
withstood the spelling bee.
Lost the word, its spelling,
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'And it came to pass...that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul...Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul. And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him, and gave it to David, and his garments, even to his sword, and to his bow, and to his girdle.'
- 1 Samuel 18: 1 - 4 King James Bible
The Lost Psalm
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'too full of blossoms and green light to care' - James Wright
If you were here now I too would
speak of encounter on a hill in the
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Fate, then, heavy in a boy's hand,
hoists dead weight to a nail on a tree.
His knife scores firm flesh yielding
beneath freshly limp gills - there is
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From a preface to earliest publication of Han Shan's poems 'Lu Ch'iu-Yin...claims to have personally met both Hanshan and Shide at the kitchen of the temple in Kuo-ch'ing, but they responded to his salutations with laughter then fled.' - Wikipedia on Han Shan
Red Pine poem 18:
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