Thoughts while Traveling at Night
delicate river grass in trifling winds
the boat’s high mast: solitary in the night
stars hang nearly low as these vast flatlands
the moon surges up from the Yangtze's currents
how can you earn a name writing poems?
an official grown old & ill needs to retire
drifting & drifting: what is that like?
a lone gull between the earth & sky
Jack Hayes © 2015
based on Du Fu’s 旅夜书怀
lǚ yè shū huái
Image links to its source on Wiki Commons
“A Thousand Li of Mountains & Rivers”: Wang Ximeng, 1113 (ink & color on silk)
public domain
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