Category: Transitory Life

Su Dongpo: For Sixteen Years Away From Hangzhou: Three Poems

 

[updated September 2022]

 

For Sixteen Years Away From Hangzhou, Here For Two Years and Then Had to Leave. On Ordinary Days Feel Less Like Going Out, It Appears That I’m Carefree and Optimistic, Although More Talented and Famous, I Seek to Be Common and Out of the Limelight. March Sixth Arrives So I Say My Farewells to the Daoists From the Southern to the Northern Mountains, Then to Tianzhu Temple on Mt. Hui Jing, Received As a Gift a Stone From the Monks

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