Status Updates From Li Po and Tu Fu: Poems

Abandon

With wine I sit
absent to Night, till
(Fallen petals
in folds of my gown)

I stagger up
to stalk the brook’s moon:
The birds are gone
and people are few!

Quiet Night Thoughts

Before my bed
there is bright moonlight
So that it seems
like frost on the ground:

Lifting my head
I watch the bright moon,
Lowering my head
I dream that I’m home.

On Visiting a Taoist Master and Not Finding Him

Where the dogs bark
by roaring waters,
Whose spray darkens
the petals’ colours,
Deep in the woods
deer at times are seen;

The valley noon:
one can hear no bell,
But wild bamboos
cut across bright clouds,
Flying cascades
hang from jasper peaks;

No one here knows
which way you have gone:
Two, now three pines
I have leant against!

Still working my way through the Introduction -- haven't gotten to the poems yet.