Five Poems: Versions of Shi Ching Verses

1.

In the Nine marshes a crane cries
In the wild its voice carries
In the lake by the bottom spring the fish lies
In the garden by the trees leaves fly and fall
In the hills by my side the rocks stay
In time let someone else
Turn them into millstones

2.

He knocks over the willow fence
Crazy and in a hurry
If he’s not early
He’s an hour late

3.

Blue your collar
Blue my heart
You go to town you come back
The day I don’t see you
Is three months long

4.

Rough water can’t touch
The reeds if they’re bundled up
We’re brothers only you and I
Whatever they say about me
Don’t you believe it

5.

The four black horses beautiful
mmmnUntied reins in the dust
The road smooth and easy and so
mmmnWas this young lady

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