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.water.clock.
07.29.06 (8:31 pm)   [edit]

To the Tune of “Dreaming of the South Side of the River”

After combing and washing,
she leans alone on the River Gazing Tower.
A thousand boats sail by, but none are his.
Slant sunlight like lingering passion on the unhurried water.
An islet of white duckweed. She’s broken inside.

Note: In line 5, “islet of white duckweed” is a traditional Chinese coded phrase for the place of departure and separation. 

To the Tune of “The Water-Clock Sings at Night”

I

The willow weeps long silk,
a slender spring rain.
Past the flowers a water-clock sings forever,
startling frontier geese,
crows on the citywall,
even gilded partridges on the painted screen.

A thin perfumed mist
seeps through the curtain
and grief fills the ponds and pavilions of Lady Xie.
One red candle
behind the drooping embroidered curtain.
She dreams on forever of things he won’t understand.

3

The jade incense-burner smokes
and a red candle sheds tears,
casting slant light on the hall of paintings and an autumn sorrow.
Her painted eyebrows are fading
and her hair is tangled clouds.
the night is forever, the quilt and pillow cold.

On the parosel trees
rain falls at the time of the midnight drum
unaware of the pain of separation, this intense bitterness;
leaf by leaf,
plink, plunk,
it drips on the empty steps till dawn.


Wen Tingyun (温庭筠) 812-870
(Wen T'ing-yun, Wen Tingjun) 

Tang-dynasty poet and writer. Born in Shanxi province, Wen hailed from an influential family. When he arrived in the capital in his twenties to take the jinshi examinations, he was already known for his literary and musical talents. Despite such credentials, he failed to pass the exams, but found minor posts on the basis of personal connections.

Wen, whose aristocratic birth allowed him many leisures, lived the dissolute life of a drunkard and frequenter of brothels. Wen is known as the first poet to seriously explore the potentials of the ci form. Derived from ballads performed by professional female singers in the wineshops and brothels of the day, ci borrowed metres from existing musical scores and were themselves sung to instrumental accompaniment.

During Wen's lifetime, two collections of his ci poems were in circulation: the Wolan ji [Plucking the orchid collection] and the Jinquan ji [The golden fish-trap collection]. Although both of these have been lost, seventy of Wen's ci poems survive.
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