Bamboo and Plum Blossom

Bamboo and Plum Blossom

Bamboo and Plum Blossom

Bamboo and Plum Blossom
Bamboo and Plum Blossom

Sunday, May 20, 2012

Meng Haoran (689-740)


Listening to Cheng Yin Play His Qin
Meng Haoran 689-740

Another Juan Chi ripening wine's renown
in bamboo forests full of crystalline wind.

you sit half drunk, let down flowing sleeves
and sweep your dragon-rimedd qin clean.

Then it's a fresh tune for each cup of wine,
dusk's blaze sinking away unnoticed. Soon,

thoughts deep among rivers and mountains,
I hear this mind my former lives all share.

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