LITTLE CHURCH — ALEXIS KARPOUZOS
Love, a little church that standing all alone,
waits with open doors,
but nobody goes there to pray,
the prayers will go unsaid, now, where to go?
which way? love, be my beacon,
teach me to look at an empty sky without fear.
As Fall Begins, I Look Within
As Fall Begins, I Look Within
Li Yi (746-829)Ten thousand fears have come to fix my life,
As on this mirrored shore I gaze uneased—
Here all I see has turned my temples white
And now it’s time to face the autumn breeze.
| Chinese 立秋前一日覽鏡 李益 萬事銷身外 生涯在鏡中 唯將滿鬢雪 明日對秋風 | Pronunciation Lì Qiū Qián Yī Rì Lǎn Jìng |
Songs of a New Morning
from the shore
where I can see it all
as it floats away
to some other land
where the sun continues to shine
for centuries
and treetops
sway in the wind
filling the grass
with wandering pollen
*
worn out
like a flag flown
for many years
*
alone here
where your lips once
had left a mark
*
once
I looked up
at the stones
and there opened a path
into the night
lit by torchlight
