{"id":14119,"date":"2022-03-12T00:19:03","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T22:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/egophobia.ro\/?p=14119"},"modified":"2022-03-24T08:47:31","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T06:47:31","slug":"poems-by-george-freek-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/?p=14119","title":{"rendered":"poems by George Freek"},"content":{"rendered":"

I look at my past<\/strong><\/p>\n

(after Tu Fu)<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I stare at mysteries in the air.<\/p>\n

Clouds drift in pairs,<\/p>\n

but their life is as brief<\/p>\n

as the dead leaves<\/p>\n

which blow down the street.<\/p>\n

Stars dimly shine,<\/p>\n

But they only light<\/p>\n

the tops of the pines,<\/p>\n

standing like mute stones.<\/p>\n

The taste of wine<\/p>\n

turns sour in my mouth.<\/p>\n

There are things which<\/p>\n

can\u2019t ever be understood.<\/p>\n

My heart feels dead.<\/p>\n

I have many things to regret.<\/p>\n

And as I watch<\/p>\n

the darkness spread,<\/p>\n

they\u2019re not over yet.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Poem 2 <\/strong><\/p>\n

(after Li Po)<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

What good are poems?<\/p>\n

They give no comfort<\/p>\n

when I\u2019m alone.<\/p>\n

They can\u2019t drink with me.<\/p>\n

They can\u2019t laugh with me.<\/p>\n

They\u2019ll never take away<\/p>\n

my fear of death. They only<\/p>\n

add to my unrest.<\/p>\n

Still, when I\u2019m drunk,<\/p>\n

I get ideas, and I must<\/p>\n

write them down.<\/p>\n

So what\u2019s the use?<\/p>\n

My wife is dead.<\/p>\n

I sit here alone.<\/p>\n

I invite you to join me.<\/p>\n

I have plenty of room.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The gods are not merciful<\/strong><\/p>\n

(after Mei Yao Chen)<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

How may I forget my dead wife?<\/p>\n

Life is a flower which blooms,<\/p>\n

and dies in its sleep.<\/p>\n

I watch the moving moon,<\/p>\n

gently dominate the sky,<\/p>\n

but where does God reside?<\/p>\n

Traffic and people move<\/p>\n

along the road. They know<\/p>\n

nothing of me, I know nothing<\/p>\n

of them. The stars die slowly,<\/p>\n

more slowly than the deeds of men.<\/p>\n

Drunk, I sink into sleep.<\/p>\n

Drunk, I waken to the day.<\/p>\n

I have no courage.<\/p>\n

When she was young, and I<\/p>\n

was young, we slept<\/p>\n

in each other\u2019s arms. Now,<\/p>\n

I\u2019m older and you are<\/p>\n

far away. The light dies.<\/p>\n

This poem is all wrong,<\/p>\n

but there\u2019s nothing left to say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I look at my past (after Tu Fu)   I stare at mysteries in the air. Clouds drift in pairs, but their life is as brief<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1548,77],"tags":[1549,1123,1538],"class_list":["post-14119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-egophobia-71","category-english","tag-egophobia-71","tag-english","tag-george-freek"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6DakB-3FJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14120,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14119\/revisions\/14120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}