Shoreless breeze from heaven over an endless road–
Serving the moon, my master, I’ll always be the custodian of wind and dew.
I will take only a thousand goblets as my lunar salary,
Because I dislike the smell of copper mixed with the flowers’ scent.
translated by Irving Y. Lo
I play a reed flute
On a Sprıng’s hill,
Longing for old home.
I play a reed flute
On a blooming hill,
Longing for childhood days.
I play a reed flute
In human streets,
Longing for earthly things.
I play a reed flute
On an endless wandering
Over the vales of tears.
When I die,
I’ll become a blue bird.
I’ll fly over
Blue Sky and blue field.
I’ll sing blue songs
And blue laments.
When I die,
I’ll become a blue bird.
The green waters roar as if angry,
the blue mountains hush, as if frowning.
Musing on the mountains and waters I realize
they hate my going into the world of wind and dust.
translated by Kim Jong-gil
On an ordinary autumn evening
Ordinary fruit is better.
Sometimes ordinary words
With no particular savor
Suit me better.
Hearing in memory
The last car depart,
I step over
The membrane of sleep,
And a fruit falls in my dream.
I will ask the wind
That departs in the morning
To what depths the fruit has fallen.
When I die,
I will become a rock,
never touched
by compassion, joy or anger.
While being torn down by wind and rain,
It will only whip itself inwards
in eternal, impersonal silence,
and at last forget its own existence;
Floating clouds, distant thunder!
Though it may dream,
it will never sing.
Though broken in pieces,
it will never utter a word.
I will become such a rock.
An old temple leans against the green hillside,
The Traveling Palace nestles next to the emerald flow.
Sounds of waters, and the sheen of the mountain locked in the painted tower.
Past memories send my thoughts far away.
Morning rain and clouds return at dusk,
Mist and flowers, in spring as in autumn.
Why should the screeching of the monkeys get so close to the solitary boat?
The traveler has enough sorrows of his own.
translated by Hellmut Wilhelm
What soon grows old? Gratitude.
From non-being into being: the cloud peaks gather;
From being back to non-being: the lightning flash goes out.
To gather or to disperse is all illusory:
Only the meddlers keep up their useless jabbering.
translated by Irving Y. Lo
I have asked the eye of my heart: what is the use of all this worrying?
So don’t waste your time trying to fill your cup with water
When you know that there is nothing in this well but wind.
O Hafiz, in this desert, you have fallen victim to your own illusions.
When was a pilgrim’s thirst ever quenched by a mirage?
translated by Thomas Rain Crowe
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