{"id":8546,"date":"2018-04-22T09:33:58","date_gmt":"2018-04-22T16:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elizabethbader.com\/elizabethbadersblog\/?p=8546"},"modified":"2022-06-23T12:12:48","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T19:12:48","slug":"awakening-in-the-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elizabethbader.com\/elizabethbadersblog\/awakening-in-the-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"Awakening in the Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A moment of celebration after our discussion of difficult issues.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elizabethbader.com\/elizabethbadersblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/XiangFanCityPark2007-e1524264685318.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8504\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.elizabethbader.com\/elizabethbadersblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/XiangFanCityPark2007-400x300.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Spring Dawn<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Spring sleep, not yet awake to dawn<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I am full of birdsongs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Throughout the night the sounds of wind and rain<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Who knows . . . what flowers fell.<\/p>\n<p>Meng Hao-jan (689\/691-740), Spring Dawn, <span id='easy-footnote-1-8546' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.elizabethbader.com\/elizabethbadersblog\/awakening-in-the-spring\/#easy-footnote-bottom-1-8546' title=' Translation by Gary Snyder in Eliot Weinberger, ed. (2003), The New Directions Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry, page 63.&lt;\/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;For more on this poet, please go to &lt;a href=&quot;https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Meng_Haoran&quot;&gt;Meng Hao&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Meng_Haoran&quot;&gt;-jan&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;\n&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Photo credit:&amp;nbsp; Noclue119 on &lt;a href=&quot;https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Meng_Haoran#\/media\/File:XiangFanCityPark2007.JPG&quot;&gt;Wikimedia Commons&lt;\/a&gt; (photo of a city park near Meng Hao-Jan&amp;#8217;s home.'><sup>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-8546\" data-postid=\"8546\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-8546 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lovely yet profound poem by Meng Hao-Jan (689-741) on awakening in 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