"Green Creek" 08/01/2009
 
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To get right down to Yellow Flower River
I often follow the waters of Green Creek.
They wind around the mountains endlessly—
A path straight there would run a few score miles.

There are sounds of water crashing on tumbled stones;
Scenes of silence deep within the pines.
Water chestnut and water fringe float on the ripples;
Still limpid waters mirror the reeds.

My mind is unencumbered, at its ease now.
Clear and tranquil, as the river is.
Come, stay a while, rest here upon this stone—
Cast out a fishing line and let things be.
—Wang Wei
 


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