Li Po: To Tu Fu from Shantang

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To Tu Fu from Shantang

Li Po, Li Po poetry, Taoist, Taoist poetry, poetry, [TRADITION SUB2] poetry, poetry

by Li Po
(701 - 762) Timeline

English version by
Sam Hamill

Original Language
Chinese

Taoist

8th Century

You ask how I spend my time--
I nestle against a treetrunk
and listen to autumn winds
in the pines all night and day.

Shantung wine can't get me drunk.
The local poets bore me.
My thoughts remain with you,
like the Wen River, endlessly flowing.

-- from Endless River: Li Po and Tu Fu: A Friendship in Poetry, Translated by Sam Hamill

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Themes

Night

Sound

Trembling

Water

Wine

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