You find a flower half-buried in leaves,
And in your eye its very fate resides.
Loving beauty, you caress the bloom;
Soon enough, you'll sweep petals from the floor.
Terrible to love the lovely so,
To count your own years, to say "I'm old,"
To see a flower half-buried in leaves
And come face to face with what you are.
- Han Shan, c 630 CE
Translated by Peter Stambler
I improved my Zen Poetry website the past few days.
Read the Zen/Taoist poets from Cold Mountain - Han Shan,
and provided a guide to the literature in my
Cold Mountain Buddhas.
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