Moon over Okinawan surf

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Autumn Moon

Clear sky not a cloud in sight, Bright moon radiates a thousand miles. Alone in my garden I raise my glass, Outside          in the trees                  an autumn wind rises.

Qiūyuè

Qīngtiān wú piàn yún, Míngyuè zhào wànlǐ. Zhōng tíng dú júbēi, Lín wài qiūfēng qǐ.

Translator:

Dongbo 東波

Notes: Everyone is lonely at sometime in their lives. As Merle Haggard sings; 'Everybody's had the blues sometimes And everybody's got the blues' But lonely on Okinawa, an isolated island in the Pacific, is a deeper kind of loneliness. It is expressed in this short poem and in the haunting voices and lyrics of Ryukyuan music. From the book 古琉球吟 compiled by 橋本海關

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