Friday, September 21, 2007

Until only the mountain remains...




















The birds have vanished down the sky.
The last cloud drains away.
We sit together, the mountain and I,
Until only the mountain remains...

Li Po, 'Zazen on Ching-t’ing Mountain'

Li Po (701 – 762): https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/li-po
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2 comments:

  1. Bit HawkSeptember 21, 2007 at 11:41 PM

    Loved the zen poem! So simple, yet so meaningful.

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  2. UnknownNovember 18, 2008 at 6:45 PM

    It's by Li Po, or Li Bai, an 8th century chinese taoist poet. pretty crazy guy.

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