Birthday poem · August 27End of Heat, the 14th solar term: the summer heat eases.

Birthday poem card for August 27: “Miscellaneous Poem” by Tao Yuanming. Birth character 月, moon.
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Birth character

月 yuè · moon

月 is a picture of a crescent moon.

舉頭望明月
“Looking up, I find the moon bright” — Li Bai, ‘Quiet Night Thoughts’

Other dates with this poem: February 29

The poem

“Miscellaneous Poem” 雜詩

  1. 盛年不重來The prime of life never comes twice;
  2. 一日難再晨a day cannot have two mornings.
  3. 及時當勉勵While there is time, make the most of it —
  4. 歲月不待人the years wait for no one.

Tao Yuanming 陶淵明 · Eastern Jin dynasty · 365–427 · five-character verse · excerpt

English translation by Poetune.

Why this poem

Tao Yuanming: "the prime of life does not come twice", so work while you can.

This day in the Chinese calendar

Solar term: End of Heat.

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