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Subject: FAMILY LIFE - CHINA
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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?
Subject(s): Family Life - China