Best Chinese Poems
Below are the all-time best Chinese poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of chinese poems written by PoetrySoup members
On Watching Chinese DancesColorful ribbons
follow the woman’s movements.
I can almost see
floating rainbows.
Pale beauties unfurl
ivory hued fans.
I imagine
swan wings fluttering.
I chose both the ribbon dance and...
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Categories:
chinese, dance,
Form:
Free verse
Chinese ScrollsPoems from old and yellowed
Chinese scrolls make me sad,
make me sad: stored in shiny,
lacquered boxes of perfumed teak,
they crumble when unrolled.
And the hands that must...
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Categories:
chinese, allegory, art, imagination, introspection,
Form:
Narrative
A Chinese LimerickA gambler from Hong Kong named Louie.
He was dumb and quite a bit screwy.
In a gambling pad,
he lost all he had.
Today, he can’t afford chop...
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Categories:
chinese, funny
Form:
Limerick
Son In Law's Day - Chinese New YearThe second day of the Chinese New Year
Tradition has it say
That the son in law visits
His mother in law
Guest of honour on this day
She...
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Categories:
chinese, celebration,
Form:
Rhyme
Love and the Chinese New YearDragon was hatched in the year of the Dragon, on the Chinese Zodiac.
But, then so was I. Yep folks, that makes me so very, amazingly...
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Categories:
chinese, adventure, fantasy, fun, humor,
Form:
Light Verse
Categories:
chinese, absence, age, angel, art,
Form:
Free verse
Demeter At the Chinese OperaDEMETER AT THE CHINESE OPERA
So, I invited you to the Chinese Opera impulsively
Thinking of masks and dragons and triumphant mystery
I though it was time we...
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Categories:
chinese, culture, forgiveness, mother daughter,
Form:
Sonnet
Categories:
chinese, celebration, international, new year,
Form:
Haiku
Chinese Valentine's DayLunar New Year brings blessings bright:
Affluence now cheers our spirits right.
Goodies galore with sure good health:
So much and more with ample wealth.
Time moves most brisk...
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Categories:
chinese, beauty,
Form:
Couplet
To a Chinese DragonTo A Chinese Dragon
Sponsor: David Lindsay
Ode to you, my Chinese Dragon, for you have stolen my heart!
your slow slimy tail was wagging and ripped a...
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Categories:
chinese, animal, mythology,
Form:
Couplet
DumplingsDumplings
As I walk into the kitchen, for a snack,
my mother, her apron, night black hair, and jade bracelet,
makes me dumplings.
She combines...
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Categories:
chinese, 10th grade, food, mom,
Form:
Free verse
Empty SpaceReaching out to infinitude
when words have come to an end.
Yan Yu
Presence, without;
the space framed
but left empty.
Mountains float
as a fisherman
ignores, wishing
only...
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Categories:
chinese, art, memory, remember,
Form:
Free verse
Inside the Middle Kingdom31/10/18
Beneath a pale sky of bleakest white,
Songs carried by the eastern wind,
The faint sounds of flutes and lesser known cries,
Reveal a surface less skimmed.
The slowest...
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Categories:
chinese, beautiful, happiness, health, morning,
Form:
Free verse
San Francisco Shows Me MyselfA large toothy Chinese dragon spirits me away.
To lively San Francisco street with paper lanterns.
Trinkets of all shapes and forms. Smells wafting in
Reminding me of...
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Categories:
chinese, age, self,
Form:
Light Verse
Ancient HaikuThese are translations of some of the oldest Japanese waka, which evolved into tanka, renga and haiku.
While you decline to cry,
high on the mountainside
a...
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Categories:
chinese, culture, imagery, inspiration, international,
Form:
Haiku