Showing posts with label Wei Zhuang. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wei Zhuang. Show all posts

Friday, January 1, 2016

ascending a tower in Xianyang prefecture watching the rain

ascending a tower in Xianyang prefecture watching the rain


upheaval of clouds rising like beasts above the mountains:
drizzle & wind & Wei River running full & high

sunlight’s spent, the sky misty, nothing can be distinguished;
only wild geese in V formation flying: script endlessly linked

Jack Hayes
© 2015
based on Wei Zhuang:
登咸陽縣樓望雨
dēng xiányáng xiàn lóu wàng yŭ

Image links to its source on Wiki Commons
Unreconstructed Terracotta Army soldiers: by Wiki user Ovedc , who makes it available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license