Saturday, 20 September 2014

My Mount Chungnan Cottage by Wang Wei

Since middle age I’ve been
a most enthusiastic Buddhist

now that I’m old I’ve settled
here in the mountain country

sometimes I get so happy
I have to go off by myself

there are marvelous places
I alone know about

I climb
to the source of a stream

and sit
to watch the rising mists

sometimes I come across
an old man of the woods

we talk and laugh
and forget to go home.

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