A curvaceous body in the To Nu painting.
O goddess of beauty! ‘T is hither that you reign?
Where are you now? Yet here your clothes still are.
Whence came you to show your shapely body?
Are you the stuff of snow or snow-adorned?
Are you perfume-sweet or beauty-endowed?
Your pearl-lustrous eyes shimmer with heavenly hues
Damming teardrops about to burst in ivory flows.
Mysterious night sleeps soundly on your hair
While sheaves of moonlight linger on your lips.
Your two breasts! Your two breasts! Oh my! Oh my!
Let me suck the mellifluous nectar.
What an engaging blossom uncovered!
Shaken I rein in my demented soul…
Oh! Those hands let fall the twinkling jade bowl.
Oh! Those spread legs lascivious lotus-pink.
Give me you! Give me you! Give me you whole….
I took a long quaff of the dream potion
To reach the giddy height of ecstasy,
And drown the world in vast oceans of tears.
O my Beauty! You dwell across all time;
E’en dreaded Father Time kneels at your feet.
There lies eternal spring in seas of change!
All rules of life are but mere illusions!
Wherefore do you cuddle the bitter cold
Of mere painting, and fail to prize the bard?
Or you so miss life in palatial home.
Or you so long for the whitest pure love.
O my Beauty! Why shed you not your tears
For this poet, with all your lewd beauty?
The silent moon rests in mute lines of verse,
A soundless melody that boils in words.
O my Beauty! Speak up your words of jade
And tones of pearl that pluck my fond heartstrings.
Ngoc Kieu! Ngoc Kieu! Come here with your double.
Let me portray your preternatural beauty
So wondrous it drowns me in tipsy daze,
So devilish it rams my wrath deep in.
I blacked out…for a delirious moment;
From the deepest depths I then flung skyward.
(Bich Khe)
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