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The Ocean

28 Mar

The Ocean has its silent caves,
Deep, quiet, and alone;
Though there be fury on the waves,
Beneath them there is none.

The awful spirits of the deep
Hold their communion there;
And there are those for whom we weep,
The young, the bright, the fair.

Calmly the wearied seamen rest
Beneath their own blue sea.
The ocean solitudes are blest,
For there is purity.

The earth has guilt, the earth has care,
Unquiet are its graves;
But peaceful sleep is ever there,
Beneath the dark blue waves.

‘The Ocean’ by Nathaniel Hawthorne

A Reader’s Mind

25 Jan
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Hey guys! Sorry I’ve been out of contact for a while. My phone decided not to let WordPress app work any more and I don’t have money for a new phone right now. Probably because I use Huawei and they are mad at US and Google right now. Sadness! But I miss my site, so I’ll try posting more often 🙂

Are You Feeling Blue?

29 May

Are you feeling ‘blue’?
Down, low, sad. . . . a color ashamed and unwanted?
Depressed —
Are you feeling ‘blue’?

Are you Feeling ‘black’?
darkness, despair, a night without stars and lost without a compass
Shadows —
Underground coffin where hope is not even a light in the furthest tip of your muddy thoughts

Are you Feeling ‘red’?
Blood draining from your heart
Rage —
A world where there is only Mars and no Venus, enemies and doom without the love to make it worthwhile

Are you Feeling ‘green’?
Betrayal seeping into your thoughts
Jealousy —
Grass is always greener on the other side but your life is rotting like leaves left too long in the rain.

Are you Feeling ‘yellow’?
Scared of a future that does not look like a future
Coward—
Yesterday a nightmare, Tomorrow a worry, and Today is not your present.

Are you Feeling ‘white’?
Innocence buried in a chest in a box in a crate in the warehouse
Unworthy—
Nothing shows the dirt more than the white background displaying it

Are you Feeling ‘grey’?
Existing with neither emotion nor vibrancy nor beauty
Empty
Life an old movie showing a pale imitation of a world imagined in color but never experienced

But Feeling ‘blue’?
The color of the sky in a field where there is no world and only you
The color of the ocean stretching far beyond today and tomorrow
The color of the night when the judging eyes of a glaring sun have softened to a soothing glimmer
The color of
Peace—
Rest—
Hope —
Silence—
Are you feeling ‘blue’? I hope you do.

 

 

 

 

Not Your Business

2 Mar

“There was a whole army of people who seemed not to have anything better to do than to try to disrupt her life, and , if they were given the opportunity, to correct the way she had chosen to live it.”

**Stieg Larsson

With Maturity Comes Despair

23 Feb

“There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”

*Jane Austen

A #Korean Odyssey and the #Chinese Legends that inspires it ~ Princess Iron Fan

10 Feb

Original Chinese Characters and the Korean representations in “A Korean Odyssey”:

Monkey King ~ Son Oh Gong

*The Monkey đŸ”King’s Chinese name is Sun WuKong.  Wu is the Chinese word for “5” while “Oh” is the Korean word for “5”  So Son Oh Gong is just a rewrite of Sun WuKong. 😋

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The Monk Xuanzang ~ Jin Seon-mi

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The Bull Demon King ~  Woo Ma-Wang

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#Gryffindor House (It’s real!) aka the #China Spring Festival

27 Jan

Chinese Spring Festival🐉 . . . when all of China turns into gryffindor 🩁 house and red and gold colors 🇹🇳 rule.

I think Walmart might be secretly connected to Chinese hogwarts. Walk inside and its gryffindor pride
everywhere.

*Personally, I’m a slytherin – which fits, since my Chinese zodiac Animal is the snake 🐍

Words We Should Have Said

24 Jan

You never spoke a word,

But I heard words nonetheless. 

Worthless

Unwanted

Useless

No Good

Unloved

Go Away

Go Away

GO AWAY!

And so I left.

And I never said a word.

But words you heard nonetheless.

Worthless

Unwanted

Useless

No Good

Unloved

Go Away

Go Away

GO AWAY!

And so, one day, you left.

If only we had said the words. . . 

The real words left unsaid.

Precious

Wanted

Needed

Perfect

Loved

Stay

Stay

STAY

 

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The Selfish Side of Love

17 Jan

“Love is Kind”

“Love is Joy”

Love is Selfless.

With love, though comes its mate. Its match. Its darling. 

And To be loved. That is ‘I.’

To be loved is greedy.

To be loved is lonely.

To be loved is desperate. 

To be loved.

To be the center of someone’s universe.

To be the one they call first.  And last.

To be thought of.

To be treasured.

To be missed.

To be remembered

To be kissed. Not just as a kiss, but as the kiss.

To be the final lover.  The final date. The final crush.

To be their ‘one and only.’ 

To be the one they can’t get over.

To be the one they gaze at and can’t look away from.

To be the one that makes them stumble over words.

To be the muse behind the painting. The memory before the poem. The spark within the book. The note that caused the song.

To be the one they lie beside when life has come and gone.

To be the one they’ll never leave. 

To be the one who gets their love.  To be loved.

Each of us desperate.

Lonely.

Greedy.

Each wanting to be loved with the love of legends. 

After all. . . . . 

Love is loyal.

Love is faithful.

Love is gentle.

Love is precious.

Love sees no flaws. Love finds no faults.

Love is kind.

Love is joy.

Love is selfless.

To be loved . . . . oh . . . . to be loved. 

 

 

 

 

Finding #Love on the Magpie Bridge

23 Mar

Xiān yĂșn nĂČng qiăo, fēi xÄ«ng chuĂĄn hĂšn, yĂ­n hĂ n tiĂĄo tiĂĄo Ă n dĂč
JÄ«n fēng yĂč lĂč yĂŹ xiāng fĂ©ng, biĂ n shĂšng quĂš rĂ©n jiān wĂș shĂč
RĂłu qĂ­ng sĂŹ shuÄ­,  jiā qÄ« rĂș mĂšng, rĕn gĂč quĂš qiĂĄo guÄ« lĂč
Liăng qĂ­ng ruĂČ shĂŹ jiĆ­ chĂĄng shĂ­, yĂČu qÄ­ zĂ i zhāo zhāo mĂč mĂč

As Clouds float like works of art; 
Stars shoot with grief at heart.
Across the Milky Way the Cowherd meets the Maid.

When autumn’s Golden Wind embraces Dew of Jade
All the love scenes on earth, however many, fade.

Their tender love flows like a stream; 
This happy date seems but a dream.
Can they bear a separate homeward way?

If love between both sides can last for aye,
Why need they stay together night and day?
(Translated by Xu Yuanchong)

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In a magical world in a century so long ago it has faded into dream and myth, there lived a tragic, poor, lonely man named Niu Lang. Most of his family had all died several years before, and those who remained had thrown him out on the street. So to stay alive, he found a small job taking care of some cows.  

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