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Hockney, David - Li Shangyin - 3 Swallow terrace, Autumn
Identifier
014383
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
David Hockney - Wold-gate woods
A description of the experience
Li Shangyin (c. 813–858) was a Chinese poet of the late Tang Dynasty, born in Henei (now Qinyang, Henan). He was much admired and "rediscovered" in the 20th century by the young Chinese writers for the imagist quality of his poems.
3 Autumn
The moon’s waves spread, drenching heaven’s wide-open eaves,
then it sets with its icy moon-toad, and sparse stars drift inside,
cloud-screens motionless around eyebrows worried and alone:
all night long, kites on winds above west tower swoop and dive:
Wanting to weave blossoms of longing and send them far away,
a longing for someone that lasts all day choked with resentment:
hearing the Northern Dipper, the sound of it pivoting slowly,
without seeing the Star River, its crystalline shallows coursing
between lovers: a gold fish locks cinnamon broken from spring,
and dust of all antiquity sifts across ducks on cushions of love:
who could bear it, that little park of ours now just a long road,
and jade-pure trees feel nothing when you lose your homeland:
its Ch’u song hidden away, the jeweled ch'in grows still, still:
and daubed with gold, gauze robes from Yueh are thin and cold
as night passes: startled by frost, a parrot on the curtain hook
calls southern clouds swelling up around Cloud-Dream lovers:
a pair of earrings is glittering, dangling from a foot-long silk
letter that speaks of a place where two met on the Hsiang River:
singing lips that will be seen for a lifetime in clouds and rain,
and sorrows over a fragrant scent held for a moment long ago.
The source of the experience
Hockney, DavidConcepts, symbols and science items
Concepts
Symbols
Science Items
Activities and commonsteps
Activities
Overloads
Smoke inhalationSuppressions
Communing with natureLOVE
Reducing desires
Squash the big I am