"How often does the bright Moon come?"

When will the moon be clear and bright? With a cup of wine in my hand, I ask the blue sky what season it would be up the heaven for tonight. Oh Moon, how I wish to get closer By riding on the breeze. Yet I fear your crystal and jade chateau, Are much too high and cold. So, let me just dance here with my moonlight shadow. Rounds and rounds, my red mansion, till you shine on my silk pillow, Sleepless, but bearing no regrets Blame not the full moon when people has to apart Sorrow or joy, be near or far, Things happen like that, and we still believe in fate. Toast to you, we are all be blessed Though distant away, we look at the same moon And in that way, we have never been apart.

Su Shi,  translated by CYY

The Moon upon her fluent route Defiant of a road, 

 

The stars Etruscan argument, 

Substantiate a God. 

If Aims impel these Astral Ones, 

The Ones allowed to know, 

Know that which makes them as forgot 

As Dawn forgets them now.  

 

 

Emily Dickinson, 

 

The Single Hound :

Poems of a lifetime, 1914

The polished  Mirror of Love

Dreaming in the moon pavilions :



A new way of reflecting parallelism in the sky...











 


I wish to return there and I wish to fly,   

in the dancing snow,

traveling over nights 

over the rainbow salutation as a flow...





It may even dip below the “cover line 

below the silken curtains of the bright eyes,

dreaming a wisdom for anyone

making a wish to be sweet on  the cloud loving song

seeing the moon waxes secrets across a thousand miles......

J.W