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no tricks

by Yun-k'an Tzu
(13th Century) Timeline

English version by
Jerome P. Seaton

Original Language
Chinese
Taoist
13th Century

no tricks
          nothing doing.
the sun and moon endure their rush
and don't grow old.
sail backwards?
row against the flow?
to hell with that.
you'd better be known
for being
          quiet.

 

 

-- from Wine of Endless Life: Taoist Drinking Songs from the Yuan Dynasty, Edited by Jerome P. Seaton

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Themes

  Garden
  Moon
  Silence
  Sun
  Water


Recommended Books


Sunflower Splendor: Three Thousand Years of Chinese Poetry, Edited by Wu-chi Liu / Edited by Irving Yucheng Lo
Wine of Endless Life: Taoist Drinking Songs from the Yuan Dynasty, Edited by Jerome P. Seaton

 

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