A thousand miles of oriole song, reds setting greens ablaze,
river villages with mountains for walls, wineshop flags, wind.
Of those four hundred eighty Southern Dynasty monasteries,
how many towers and terraces remain in this mist and rain?
translated by David Hinton
another beautiful picture painted… This poetry is an inspiration
Oddly enough, I have just reached the poems of Tu Mu while reading The Jade Mountain, Wittner Bynner and Kiang Kang-Hu’s translations of T’ang dynasty poets. Your timing is impeccable, LD.
Well since my timing has usually been known to be off, it’s nice to know that every now and then it isn’t.