1 Nov 2010, 9:15am
Books and Reading Poetry/Hymns/Lyrics Temporal Miscellany: autumn seasons
by amo
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Books and Reading Poetry/Hymns/Lyrics Temporal Miscellany: autumn seasons
by amo
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From my reading:
In Reply to Liu Ch’ai-Sang
In a meager home, guests rare, I often
forget I’m surrounded by turning seasons.And now falling leaves fill courtyard
emptiness, I grow sad, realizing it’sautumn already. Fresh sunflower thickets
fill north windows. Sweet grains in southfields ripen. Though I’m far from happy
today, I know next year may never come.Get the kids together, I tell my wife,
it’s the perfect day for a nice long walk.From The Selected Poems of T’ao Ch’ien
translated by David Hinton