Chenqing 100

This week's prompt is this line from Classical Chinese poet Meng Haoran's poem "Thoughts in Early Winter," as translated by Stephen M. Johnson: "Travelling, I've exhausted my tears for home."

You have until midnight your time on Friday, April 25, to answer this prompt. Please post your fills of the prompt as separate entries to the community (i.e. not replies to this entry), tagged with the prompt tag. You may post multiple standalone drabbles per entry in addition to drabble sequences and series.

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Our final week of National Poetry Month brings a prompt of two lines from the poem "Receiving Yan Bojun's Letter," by Li Ye, as translated by Peter Levitt and Rebecca Nie: "it's just my sorrow replying to the silver hooks/of your writing."

You have until midnight your time on Friday, May 3, to answer this prompt. Please post your fills of the prompt as separate entries to the community (i.e. not replies to this entry), tagged with the prompt tag. You may post multiple drabbles per entry. Please review the community rules for what drabble forms are allowed.

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This week's prompt is two lines from Tan Wan's "To the Tune of 'The Phoenix Hairpin'," as translated by Kenneth Rexroth and Ling Chung: "Afraid of people's questions, / I will swallow my tears / And pretend to be happy. / Deceit. Deceit. Deceit."

You have until midnight your time on Friday, April 19, to answer this prompt. Please post your fills of the prompt as separate entries to the community (i.e. not replies to this entry), tagged with the prompt tag. You may post multiple drabbles per entry. Please review the community rules for what drabble forms are allowed.

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Although today is still March, next week is the first week of April, which is National Poetry Month here in the U.S. So, this week's prompt is two lines from "18 Verses Sung to a Tatar Reed Whistle" by Cai Yan, as translated by Kenneth Rexroth and Ling Chung: "If I had consented to death / My bones would have been buried long ago."

You have until midnight your time on Friday, April 5, to answer this prompt. Please post your fills of the prompt as separate entries to the community (i.e. not replies to this entry), tagged with the prompt tag. You may post multiple drabbles per entry. Please review the community rules for what drabble forms are allowed.

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