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January 2025

A drifting poem for a floating life
Li Xin imagines a voyage, and gives a warning
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Lamenting by the riverside
Du Fu's capital has been taken
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5
The Jade Pavilion Songs
With a controversial new organisation!
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The wait is over
Husband is home
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1
Things take a turn for the better
Jade Pavilion Songs (11) Quan Deyu My sash-knot slipped Last night: good luck! And lucky long-legs Flew today. I’ll not neglect To rouge my face, Good…
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End Stop, Enjambment, Caesura
An educational sonnet
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Will she make a break for it?
Or will loneliness break her?
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From emotion to argument
Our heroine ratchets up the pressure
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No respite in the dark
The loneliness only gets worse
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Time is seasons, seasons are sex, sex is love
And love is gone
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