Gedicht

Xi Chuan

Side by side

Eternal Cypresses

Some day I will sleep forever without waking
Never again will I see the cypresses of the northern plains

These cypresses at their mysterious prayers
These black and dripping churches
These swallows perched stiffly on the rushes
These oil-lamps

One day I will sleep forever without waking
While the wind blowing through the iron branches of the cypresses
will remain in the heart of a corpse

© Translation: 2006, Tao Naikan and Tony Prince
From: Eight Contemporary Chinese Poets
Publisher: Wild Peony, Sydney, 2006

ETERNAL CYPRESSES

Xi Chuan

Xi Chuan

Landen

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Gedichten Dichters

Talen

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Gedichten Dichters

Gedichten

Gedichten van Xi Chuan

Ark

Snow

Eternal Cypresses

Birds

NERUDA’S PORTRET

Looking up at the Starry Sky Above Hargai

Bats in the Twilight

Close

ETERNAL CYPRESSES

Eternal Cypresses

Some day I will sleep forever without waking
Never again will I see the cypresses of the northern plains

These cypresses at their mysterious prayers
These black and dripping churches
These swallows perched stiffly on the rushes
These oil-lamps

One day I will sleep forever without waking
While the wind blowing through the iron branches of the cypresses
will remain in the heart of a corpse

© 2006, Tao Naikan and Tony Prince
From: Eight Contemporary Chinese Poets
Publisher: 2006, Wild Peony, Sydney

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