Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Night Thoughts Afloat by Tu Fu

By bent grasses


in a gentle wind


Under straight mast


I’m alone tonight,

 

And the stars hang


above the broad plain


But moon’s afloat


in this Great River:

 

Oh, where’s my name


among the poets?


Official rank?


“Retired for ill-health.”


Drifting, drifting,


what am I more than


A single gull


between sky and earth?

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