Poem by

YUAN CHANGMING

Heart-Renditions: Lesson 2 in Chinese Characters

怒: rage influxes when slavery

                                                                        Rises from above the heart

愁: worry thickens as autumn

                                                                        Sits high on your heart

闷: depressed whenever your heart is

                                                                        Shut behind a door

意: meaning is defined as                              

                                                                        A sound over the heart

思: thought takes place

                                                                        In in the field of heart

忘: forgetting happens

                                                                        When there’s death on heart

忍：to tolerate is to bear a knife

                                                                        Right above your heart