Li Po: Parting

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Parting

Li Po, Li Po poetry, Taoist, Taoist poetry, poetry, [TRADITION SUB2] poetry, poetry

by Li Po
(701 - 762) Timeline

English version by
Sam Hamill

Original Language
Chinese

Taoist

8th Century

Green mountains rise to the north;
white water rolls past the eastern city.

Once it has been uprooted,
the tumbleweed travels forever.

Drifting clouds like a wanderer's mind;
sunset, like the heart of your old friend.

We turn, pause, look back and wave,
Even our ponies look back and whine.

-- from Endless River: Li Po and Tu Fu: A Friendship in Poetry, Translated by Sam Hamill

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Themes

East

Heart

Mountain

Water

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	Endless River: Li Po and Tu Fu: A Friendship in Poetry, Translated by Sam Hamill
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	Li Po and Tu Fu: Poems, Translated by Arthur Cooper
	The Poetry of Zen: (Shambhala Library), Edited by Sam Hamill / Edited by J. P. Seaton

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