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Li Qingzhao - These courtyard depths feel deep
Identifier
015068
Type of Spiritual Experience
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These courtyard depths feel deep, deep, so utterly deep here beyond
cloud windows and rooms of mist, doors left always closed,
willow tips and plum blossoms opening little by little their radiance.
Spring is returning to city trees in Mo-ling,
and I’m a stranger to these serene, far-off walls.
Moonlight once filled my thoughts, Wind my song - so much wonder,
and now it’s all old, gone away, nothing finished.
Who cares anymore about this withered scatter of haggard grief ?
I’m way past flirting at the Lantern Festival:
I’m not even tempted by a walk in the snow.