Ten Talks
(10) As the River Flows
To conclude this Talk on Poetry Appreciation I must share with my readers the many wonderful experiences I had with the river, in life as in poetry.
I first encountered a river in 1942, days after Hong Kong fell into Japanese hands, when I was brought to my mother’s native home, Village Beneath the Tall Mountain (太山下) Nearby flowed a big river ………
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Patrick Henry Pearse, the Irish poet revolutionary
who led the 1916 Easter Rising, and
was executed by the British government afterwards.
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求學時期曾經做過酒保。從服侍酒客的工作經驗中，我獲得二個心德，其一，美國人不能無酒喝。其二，美國人不能無球賽看。二可缺一，否則週末難打發。
小兒即將與同學去墨西哥 Cancun 的海灘渡春假，NCAA 大學籃球邀請賽，三月瘋狂，March madness, 也立刻開始。我把觀感告訴他：
白雪回頭冬未走
冰封路面滑溜溜
鑿冰除雪誠苦力
為保安全迅籌謀
《悼孫中山先生》
自幼抗拒舊傳統
破壞神像震廟宗
言行新潮受排斥
親友恐懼世不容
推翻滿清感使命
領導策劃武力崇
三民主義倡建國
天下為公心所從
帝制復辟國分裂
辛亥革命未成功
Zen Tales
(9)《Half-day Leisure》 Click here to read the Tale.
《三八婦女節頌》
三貞九烈古節亮
八德四維眾表彰
婦人之見受輕視
女子無才作平常
節日為記今時尚
頌揚貢獻不可量