Han-shan (Cold Mountain): You have seen the blossoms among the leaves;

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You have seen the blossoms among the leaves;

Han-shan (Cold Mountain), Han-shan (Cold Mountain) poetry, Buddhist, Buddhist poetry, Zen / Chan poetry, [TRADITION SUB2] poetry, Taoist poetry

by Han-shan (Cold Mountain)
(730? - 850?) Timeline

English version by
Burton Watson

Original Language
Chinese

Buddhist : Zen / Chan

Taoist

8th Century

You have seen the blossoms among the leaves;
tell me, how long will they stay?
Today they tremble before the hand that picks them;
tomorrow they wait someone's garden broom.

Wonderful is the bright heart of youth,
but with the years it grows old.
Is the world not like these flowers?
Ruddy faces, how can they last?

Themes

Garden

Heart

Lotus

Rose

Spring Blossom

Recommended Books

	The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain, Translated by Red Pine
	A Drifting Boat: Chinese Zen Poetry, Edited by J. P. Seaton / Edited by Dennis Maloney
	The Enlightened Heart: An Anthology of Sacred Poetry, by Stephen Mitchell
	The Poetry of Zen: (Shambhala Library), Edited by Sam Hamill / Edited by J. P. Seaton
	Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems, by Gary Snyder

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