The Birth of Pearl (English Ver.)

Before Reading The Birth of Pearl / 5
Preface / 9

Chapter 1. Embroidering the Letters

Prelude to a New Millennium ……… 20
Sound’s Tears (I) ……… 22
Sound’s Tears (II) ……… 24
The Very Festival Looking forward to Spring ……… 27
A Fairy Song ……… 29
A Knigh’s Dream ……… 32
Flower Song ……… 35
Interlude for a New Millennium ……… 37
The Lonely Poet ……… 40
Echoes ……… 42
The Loveless Love Story ……… 44
A Lyrical Lily ……… 47
My Papers, Yellowed with Age ……… 50
A Romantic Dream Twinkling On a Shiny Mountain
……… 52

Chapter 2. Embroildering My Music

A Preliminary Bard Telling… ……… 56
Navigation on My Soul ……… 57
A Letter ……… 59
Listening to Beethoven’s Symphony Orchestra No. 6,
in the late fall ……… 63
The Flowers’ Shout ……… 65
My Music in My Imagination ……… 67
Singing a Song in My Mind ……… 70
When Yeats Meets the Artists ……… 72
Evening Sun ……… 74
On the Railroad ……… 76

Chapter 3. Sarcastic Song

Pharaoh Refusing Noah’s Ark ……… 82
Revolution and Reformation ……… 87
The White Swans on the Lake of the Secret Garden……… 91
Between the Fall and Earliest Snow ……… 93
I am not me, myself ……… 95
Wise man and idiot ……… 97
The Clay ……… 99
Music Forest on the Rainy Days ……… 102
One-eyed Giant ……… 104
Before Pearl’s Birth ……… 108

Chapter 4. Dreaming Resurrection

Waiting for a Resurrection Day ……… 112
Firewood ……… 115
Generative & Transformational Grammar ……… 116
Sunset ……… 118
Listening for Highland Cathedral by Andrei Rieu’s Orchestra
……… 120
The Song of a Splendid Morning ……… 128
The Birth of Pearl ……… 130

Epilogue ……… 132