Du Fu (712-770)

Night Journey Thoughts

        Bent grasses in slender breeze.

        Boat’s mast high in empty night.

        Starlight shining near the plain.

        Moon floating on river’s light.

        All this writing, but no name.

        Illness and years, without a place.

        Drifting, wandering, what am I?

        A white bird over earth and sky.