Poetry and Love

Updated 2024-06-15
Hope you all enjoy listening to this modern classic piece
"How Do I Love thee", produced by #JingQuan Music,
with the subtitle of my Chinese translation:

• https://tinyurl.com/yj6baf8e

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SU Shi dreamed about his deceased wife, after ten years of life (1)
'n death apart, dare not forget, was a heartbroken grief
ZHUO Wenjun's poem letter, from one two three, counted her deep love (2)
in numbers, up then down, let her indulging husband felt ashamed himself

Shakespeare's love of the fair youth (3)
let the youth grow with time in his eternal lines
Dickinson's love for God let herself be the summer, music notes(4)
and wanted her soul to bloom, even after death
Mrs Browning's love, to the highest, to the widest, to the deepest (5)
'n to her soul's reach, was her breath, smile, and tears
Love is eternal and never ends

Forever and ever, the coexistence of love and human beings
Is the source of human life. From east to west
From south to north, love spreads to every inch of land
Poetry expresses love: where there is love, there will be poetry
'n the life will be full of meanings

Love makes words passionate and unrestrained
Love makes words to express sorrow and sadness
Love makes words full of affection and emotion
Love makes words beautiful, sexy and attractive

Poetry speaks the heart: if there is love in the heart
the words that flow naturally will form a beautiful poem
Words are the Cupid's arrows of a poem: whoever is hit
is that with a heart of love

Footnote:
The poems quoted in this piece, including this piece, are all collected in
"Thinker's Invisible Wings ― 101 Chinese-English bilingual poems"

• https://tplaza.com.au/shop/books/fiction/isbn9789869777490
• https://www.books.com.tw/products/0010964945

1. SU Shi: Dream Recall
2. ZHUO Wenjun: Love of Countless
3. Shakespeare, Sonnet XVIII
4. Dickinson, Summer for thee, grant I may be
5. Browning, Sonnet XLIII