Mail This Off to Lu You
寄 陆 务 观
君 居 东 浙 我 江 西
镜 里 新 添 几 缕 丝？
花 落 六 回 疏 信 息
月 明 千 里 两 相 思。
不 应 李 杜 翻 鲸 海
更 羡 夔 龙 集 风 池。
道 是 樊 川 轻 薄 杀
犹 将 万 户 比 千 诗。
Ji Lu Wu Guan
Jun ju dong zhe wo jiang xi
Jing li xin tian ji lu si?
Hua luo liu hui shu xin xi
Yue ming qian li liang xiang si.
Bu ying li du fan jing hai
Geng xian kui you ji feng chi.
Dao shi fan chuan qing bo sha
You jiang wan hu bi qian shi.
Mail This Off to Lu You
You live in eastern Zhejiang, I am west of the long river
In the mirror do I notice an increase in white and thinning hair?
Six times the flowers have fallen and scattered, yet few letters have been exchanged
The two of us ponder the moonlight from hundreds of miles apart.
Your poems have the power to stir up ocean whales
We write for ourselves, and not the palace power elite.
Du Mu was obligated to put some of them to death
Compared to this government work, much better to compose a thousand poems in our hometown.