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Subject: FAMILY LIFE - CHINA Matches Found: 33 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AFTER A NOVEMBER TYPHOON, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU Poem Source First Line: Our warden is the south sea, gloomy, threatening Last Line: And rising, like a delirious mandarin duck Subject(s): Family Life - China; Typhoons AFTER THE HAINAN LEGEND, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU Poem Source First Line: A hainan youth, the unrivaled hunter among the villagers Last Line: And somersaulting and glimmering around the winter sun Subject(s): Family Life - China CHONG XIN, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU Poem Source First Line: Chong xin, my little brother, left us Last Line: Were green and full of joyful sparrows Variant Title(s): Chung Shi Subject(s): Family Life - China CONCERNING HER BLACKBIRD, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU Poem Source First Line: By the oil lamp she was sewing as I glued my Last Line: Would not change me into a blackbird Subject(s): Family Life - China CROWS AT THE SUMMER PALACE, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU Poem Source First Line: Dissipated feathers on roofs, why roll Last Line: Queens are dead. No kings sit on the throne Subject(s): Family Life - China DIVINATION SHOWED MY PLACE AMONG THESE BUNCHED CLIFFS, by HAN SHAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Empty fame has no value Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Family Life - China; Zen Buddhism ENCOUNTER, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU Poem Source First Line: Can you imagine that I, a landlord's son Last Line: My feet, entangled with the sedge roots, %sinking deep into the oozy mud Subject(s): Family Life - China FROG AND I, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU Poem Source First Line: He sat on a lotus leaf Last Line: Into the sleeping pond Subject(s): Family Life - China GOLDEN EAGLE AND I, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU Poem Source First Line: I dreamed of rescuing a golden eagle Last Line: Down this city pit of haikou Subject(s): Family Life - China GRANDFATHER, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU Poem Source First Line: Since you're awake, why not chant that poem Last Line: Where you chant your cavern poem over and over Subject(s): Family Life - China HAINAN NIGHT, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU Poem Source First Line: Old verses surprising me by a banyan tree Last Line: Not su dongpo in his tomb by the south china sea Subject(s): Family Life - China HANGING COFFINS, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU Poem Source First Line: Inside the witch-mountain gorges Last Line: Bleached bones in the mockeries of the river wind Subject(s): Family Life - China INCIDENT ON LAN LI LAKE, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU Poem Source First Line: Who is the fellow, sallow, skinny, perhaps a fisherman Last Line: Go now, poor birdie. Never come back this way. Never!' Subject(s): Family Life - China INSIDE DONGPO ACADEMY, HAINAN ISLAND, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU Poem Source First Line: Inside dongpo academy, I'm surprised to see Last Line: Hermetic hollow, while the wind feels you the night through Subject(s): Family Life - China IT'S NO NOVELTY, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU Poem Source First Line: It's no novelty to see Last Line: And evaporating with a rush of english cloud Subject(s): Family Life - China LITTLE MOON, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU Poem Source First Line: After the flood had devoured he bei Last Line: Off with a set of jade earrings' Subject(s): Family Life - China LIZARD EATER, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU Poem Source First Line: Never seems so narrow, so steep, so tortuous Last Line: Uncle, this demigod laughing and defying death Subject(s): Family Life - China MY FATHER'S MARTIAL ART, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU Poem Text First Line: When he came home mother said he looked Last Line: This oncoming traffic with your hah, hah, hah. Subject(s): Family Life - China MY NURSE, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU Poem Source First Line: A young woman came sitting at our door Last Line: Had I had the pleasure to live with a queen Subject(s): Family Life - China MY THREE AUNTS, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU Poem Source First Line: My three aunts seldom smiled, my three aunts Last Line: A shroud epoch hangs on her bed like a drunken ghost Subject(s): Family Life - China OLD SCHOOL, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU Poem Source First Line: When in school, on the jade-green campus Last Line: The river's cliff grew dark in september mist Subject(s): Family Life - China ON BATS, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU Poem Source First Line: By chance I visited the little zoo of d. H. Lawrence Last Line: A moth from a spider, but care little for the bats Subject(s): Family Life - China ON MID-AUTUMN FESTIVAL, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU Poem Source First Line: Ten thousand miles in mist and rain, fifty Last Line: Roses, roses to fade upon your stone Subject(s): Family Life - China RAVEN PRIEST, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU Poem Source First Line: At the seaside Last Line: I wake to the cries of village roosters Subject(s): Family Life - China SIT DOWN, OLD SIR, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU Poem Source First Line: Country bus to yung hsu and to nan chong Last Line: Old enough to be pitied by an angel from heaven' Subject(s): Family Life - China SKINNY, SKINNY, OF COURSE SKINNY, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU Poem Source First Line: What does this forearm of a country girl look like Last Line: A bottle of old wine costs 25,000 renmin bi' Subject(s): Family Life - China SPRING BIRTHDAY, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU Poem Source First Line: Because it's spring, on my birthday Last Line: Garden churns to pebbles, to weeds Subject(s): Family Life - China STORM-BORN VERSE, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU Poem Source First Line: Swirling clouds darkening my windows Last Line: Through my fingers, like a congo eel Subject(s): Family Life - China STRANGE BIRD, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU Poem Source First Line: Came a strange bird Last Line: Who would shoot this strange bird down Subject(s): Family Life - China TEAHOUSE, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU Poem Source First Line: At the rickshaw-jammed gate of chengdu Last Line: Moaning incessantly into the eastern seas Subject(s): Family Life - China TELEGRAM, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU Poem Source First Line: Behind our house, one october morning Last Line: Too stupid to tell my ancestral spirit from a bird Subject(s): Family Life - China WAITING FOR THE TRAIN, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU Poem Source First Line: These phantoms down the street, don't tell me Last Line: The train's in, northbound, where cold begins Subject(s): Family Life - China WINDOW VIEW FROM A SHANGHAI HOTEL, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU Poem Source First Line: The wind gives spasmodic moans this evening Last Line: Wept for me, and will not weep again? 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