Another jogging poem to kill the time...
1 青山碧海白雲天, The mountains green, the ocean blue and a sky of white clouds,
2 紅塵金露紫泉現. The mundane world, the autumn dew and the fairy pool appeared.
3 相隔蓬萊萬重冤, Separated from paradise is a myriad injustice.
4 五更滿醉夢難眠. Drunken stupor at the hour of dawn, even dreams are not asleep.
1 Green mountains and blue ocean represents youth and white clouds – grey hair of age
2 “red dust” – a Buddhist term for the mortal world; autumn is represented by the metal element – getting old; it is believed that fairy pools are enshrouded in purplish mists – pools of immortality.
3 Penglai – the realm of immortals in the Eastern Ocean. “injustice” – because when you are getting old, you yearn for elixir of youth – love too much of this world to leave.
4 Fretful sleep – an overactive mind that even in dreams, one does not feel that one has fallen asleep.
Monday, March 22, 2021
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