Poems

Meditation- Thin cloud. Light rain. Far cell. Closed to noon. Sit. Look. Green moss Becomes one with your clothes.

Mengcheng Col New house Mengcheng entrance Old tree surplus sorrow willow Come person again for who Only sorrow former person be Who will come after, I […]

Mount Zhongnan Its massive height near the City of Heaven Joins a thousand mountains to the corner of the sea. Clouds, when I look back, close […]

Mourning Yin Yao We follow you home to the Mountain. Back again through oak and green pine. Beyond the White Clouds you stay forever. Only this […]

My Retreat at Mount Zhongnan My heart in middle age found the Way. And I came to dwell at the foot of this mountain. When the […]

Night Hills Rain gone. Hills are void. Night air. Autumn now. Bright moon in the pines. Clear stream on the stones. A bamboo noise – who […]

Pa Pass At daybreak I head for Pa Pass. Spring and I together leave Ch’ang-an. A woman washes clothes in bright water. The birds at dawn […]

Passing the Temple Tonight he walks with his light stick, Stops by the Tiger Stream’s source, Asks us to listen to the mountain sound, Goes home […]

Peach Blossom Journey Fishing boat pursue water love hill spring Both banks peach blossom arrive ancient river crossing Travel look red tree not know far Travel […]

Peach Blossom Spring A fisherman floated on, enjoying Spring. The shores, he found, were covered in Peach Blossom. Watched reddening trees, uncertain where he was. Seeing […]