Yun-k'an Tzu: done with the world

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done with the world

by Yun-k'an Tzu
(13th Century) Timeline

English version by
Jerome P. Seaton

Original Language
Chinese

Taoist

13th Century

done with the world
and pure
as darkness
nothing to hold me
nothing restrain
the old guy here
within the grove
before blue cliffs the
moon's companion
mad and singing
drunk and dancing
smashed, polluted with the wine
of endless life

-- from Wine of Endless Life: Taoist Drinking Songs from the Yuan Dynasty, Edited by Jerome P. Seaton

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Themes

Night

Trembling

Wine

Recommended Books

	Sunflower Splendor: Three Thousand Years of Chinese Poetry, Edited by Wu-chi Liu / Edited by Irving Yucheng Lo
	Wine of Endless Life: Taoist Drinking Songs from the Yuan Dynasty, Edited by Jerome P. Seaton

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