Tongue-tied for Love: Meeting You During a Morning Walk

COOL POEMS: Introduction > THE POEMS

Topic: Tongue-tied for Love

Author: Mei Yaochen (1002-1060)

Meeting You During a Morning Walk

Rainy morning, dark as night,
thick the rumble of wheels.
My only worry, we might not meet;
we meet, and I’m lost forwords.

Comments: Perhaps anyone who has ever been in love can sympathize with the poet’s situation, an anxiety beautifully expressed in this simple poem of twenty characters as we walk with the poet through the rainy streets of a bustling, early modern Chinese city, carriages rumbling by on all sides in the mud. The poet, however, scarcely notices; he cares not at all for his own saftey or comfort.  His only worry is whether he and she will meet. By chance or fate his wish is granted—but he, the poet, is lost for words.

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