Bamboo and Plum Blossom

Bamboo and Plum Blossom

Bamboo and Plum Blossom

Bamboo and Plum Blossom
Bamboo and Plum Blossom

Friday, August 20, 2010

Ho Chi Minh 1890-1969



Arriving At Guilin


Guilin has no cinnamon tress
and no forest,
Only see high mountains
and deep waters.
A gloomy prison
truely terrible,
White heavens
black black night
dark and dreary.

2 comments:

  1. Dear Don,
    that sounds gloomy indead! When I looked the town up in Wikipedia, it presented itself much nicer - and they said that a lot of "The painted Veil" after the W. Somerset Maugham novel was filmed there (I have it on DVD). So what about the "fragant Osmanthus" ?

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  2. the "fragrant Osmanthus" I'm sure exists somewhere, maybe in some other poem.if you find it please let me know. my sources are extended far enough so that there is plenty. thank you for comenting

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