Paradise Found?

This was inspired upon hearing some cawing crows as I jogged around the neighborhood.

1 晨早輕步無人語 Happily in stroll one early morning with no human voice heard,
2 遠別車市世外遇 Bidding farewell to a far off city of traffic, a new world found.
3 百鳥林唱暗藏谷 A hidden forested valley where a hundred forest birds sing,
4 千字文背朗讀處 Perfect is the place to recite out aloud the Thousand Character Classic.

1 Literally, “light footed”. The human voice of others represent the mundane clutter of the world.

2 literally, “a city of cars/chariots”.

3 Does not mean one hundred literally but many. Just trying to maintain the structure of parallelism with the first four character of the last two lines. Twittering birds are thought to be the intellect.

4 I had memorized the Thousand Character Classic to practise my brush handwriting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thousand_Character_Classic

Saturday, July 1, 2023