Poems

Returning Late on the Road from Pingquan on a Winter’s Day The mountain road is hard to travel, the sun now slanting down, In a misty […]

Sleeping on a Night of Autumn Rain It’s cold this night in autumn’s third month, Peacefully within, a lone old man. He lies down late, the […]

Song of Sunset on the River A strip of water’s spread in the setting sun, Half the river’s emerald, half is red. I love the third […]

Song of the Guitar In the tenth year of Yuanhe I was banished and demoted to be assistant official in Jiujiang. In the summer of the […]

Song of the Palace Her handkerchief all soaked in tears, she cannot dream, In deepest night before the palace voices sing. Her rosy cheeks aren’t old, […]

Song of Unending Sorrow China’s Emperor, craving beauty that might shake an empire, Was on the throne for many years, searching, never finding, Till a little […]

Spring Sleep The pillow’s low, the quilt is warm, the body smooth and peaceful, Sun shines on the door of the room, the curtain not yet […]

The Bloom is not a Bloom The bloom is not a bloom, the mist not mist, At midnight she comes, and goes again at dawn. She […]

There’s a gleam of green in an old bottle,… Since the disorders in Henan and the famine in Guannei, my brothers and sisters have been scattered. […]

When I Want a Shapeful Dream When I want a shapeful dream I write poetry, And when I want a dreamlike shape I paint; When I […]