Something like a flower

This pictured 1983 edition of Bai Juyi poetry is still one of my favourites, in the ever-expanding poetry collection ;-)

His poems are well over a thousand years old now - but still have a directness and freshness that's quite remarkable:


Something like a flower

Something like a flower,
something like mist;
appearing at midnight,
vanishing at dawn; at times
riding in swiftly and staying
as briefly as a spring dream;
then disappearing completely like morning clouds.

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Bai Juyi (772–846)

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