A single town amidst high mountains shades. Why need complain by flute through Willow Trees? Ne'er doth spring give the Yumen Pass its breeze. 《春晓》(唐·孟浩然) 春眠不觉晓,处处闻啼鸟, 夜来风雨声,花落知多少。 I sleep s...
Life in the garden was very pleasant; every day I had enough hot meals and more money than I needed for wine; it was just unfortunate that I had rather a heavy workload.As for the temples, pergolas and other leafy walks, they all really caught my fancy; if only I had been free to...
When Rin aced the Keju—the Empire-wide test to find the most talented youth to learn at the Academies—it was a shock to everyone: to the test officials, who couldn’t believe a war orphan from Rooster Province could pass without cheating; to Rin’s guardians, who believed they’d fina...
At the memorial, a band plays while a young woman – also too young to remember the Wall standing – sings an old protest song and the crowd clap politely along. There are flowers at the memorials to the victims of the Wall, but the atmosphere is positive, even if the anniversary of b...
other. Effort to create the sense of a supportive village in our neighborhoods isn’t impossible.Intentional communities around the worldare doing it. “You got to put one foot in front of the other and lead with love,”sings Melanie DeMoore. “Don’t give up hope, you’re not alone....
How to speak amidst so much shattering? Returning to Sarah Ihmoud, she writes precisely of the need to speak through grief, to break out of ‘this غصة/ ghassa, this lump in our throat that keeps us from speaking, and to speak loud and courageously into the wind.” I hear ...
The movie, unfortunately, is more interested in flashy surfaces than anything else, and the promising work Bowie and co-star Susan Sarandon (as a medical researcher who gets involved with Bowie and Deneuve) gets lost amidst the flash. The other major movie Bowie was involved in that year was...
To feel the frost amidst the fire: Blame not this Dian’s Nymph too much, Sith God by nature made her such[47]. Let all the graces now be glad That fram'd a grace that passed them all, LetJunobe no longer sad; Her wanton Jove hath had a fall; ...
Many, many years ago, a wondrous bird flew into the mountains of Tolan. In its claws, it bore a giant stone, a stone of fire. The bird dropped the stone somewhere in the mountains, where it shattered. The one who finds its fragments shall have power beyond belief. ...
while the second part, considered theconclusionof the poem, is written as4-3. The counter-theme is called the ‘twist,’ which is usually a surprise in meaning, sound, or other device. Some writers break the poem into six lines which is acceptable, but the poem should have 44-46 syllabl...