One Hundred Poems from the Chinese by Kenneth Rexroth

Author:Kenneth Rexroth [Rexroth, Kenneth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-8112-2386-7
Publisher: New Directions
Published: 2014-01-14T16:00:00+00:00

LXXIII

THOUGHTS IN EXILE

I lift my head and watch

The phoenix and the snowy swan

Cross the heavens in their migrations.

Wealth, office, position,

After all these years, mean nothing to me.

The foundered horse no longer

Hopes to travel a thousand miles.

In exile, in autumn,

I grow lazy and indifferent.

In history men have

Always been treated like this.

I am forbidden to visit the Western Lake.

There is no place else I want to go.

The wise man, no matter how he is treated,

Knows that Heaven does nothing without reason.

But nobody can stop me

From writing poems about the

Mountains and rivers of Wu.

SU TUNG P’O

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