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#七夕 : 7th night of the 7th lunar month is, in legend, the one night a year that the separated lovers may meet one another by means of a bridge of magpies in the skies
Tonight is their night: a thread of poems
[📷 Yamamoto Masao]
Tonight is their night: a thread of poems
[📷 Yamamoto Masao]
should a love meant to last beyond time
begrudge mere nights and days
apart?
兩情若是久長時
又豈在
朝朝暮暮
Closing lines from the ci 鵲橋仙 ‘Immortals by the Magpie Bridge,’ by Northern Song Dynasty poet Qin Guan 秦觀 (1049-1100)
#everynightapoem #七夕
begrudge mere nights and days
apart?
兩情若是久長時
又豈在
朝朝暮暮
Closing lines from the ci 鵲橋仙 ‘Immortals by the Magpie Bridge,’ by Northern Song Dynasty poet Qin Guan 秦觀 (1049-1100)
#everynightapoem #七夕
十五始展眉，願同塵與灰
常存抱柱信，豈上望夫台
-Li Bo 李白 (701-62) 長干行
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours
Forever and forever and forever
(and Ezra Pound’s fanciful, compelling translation, “The River Merchant’s Wife: A Letter, after Rihaku”)
#everynightapoem #七夕
常存抱柱信，豈上望夫台
-Li Bo 李白 (701-62) 長干行
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours
Forever and forever and forever
(and Ezra Pound’s fanciful, compelling translation, “The River Merchant’s Wife: A Letter, after Rihaku”)
#everynightapoem #七夕
