Your stop for the annual poetry fic challenge!

Aaah, I totally fell down on the job here! I have to confess that I absolutely thought I posted this and was gently corrected by a friend last night. I'm so sorry, guys!

For our seventh poet, we are celebrating the inspiration of Hồ Xuân Hương!

If you want a new prompt, please comment on this post any time in July, and I'll be happy to give you a new one.

If you'd rather take a stab at an old prompt, you can take a look at the original sign up post, or the July Challenge prompts from that year.

As always, amnesty for all previous challenges remains open!

From Buddhist Nun

Many pink-cheeked girls abandon the world.
Many vain spouses break their marriage vows.

From At the Chinese General's Tomb

If I could change my fate, become a man
Of heroic deed, couldn't I do better?

From Unwelcome Houseguest

But here you are and I'm happy to see you
Though the house is bare and the market, far off.

From Heaven Market

Throughout the four seasons, we find flowers and fruits
In this open-air market bound by hills.

From Country Scene

A bell is tolling, fading, fading
Just like love. Only poetry lasts.

From Viewing Cac-Co Cavern

Here sweet water spatters down
And the path into the cleft is dark.

From The Lustful Monk

A life in religion weighs heavier than stone.
Everything can rest on just one little thing.

From Young Scholars

Jostling about by the temple door,
They'd like to be scholars but they can't even talk.

From The Condition of Women

Yet, everything must be put in order.
Rushing around all helter-skelter.