Pu suan tzu
Su Tung-po 1037 (Meishan, Sichuan) – 1101 (Huizong of Song)
A fragment moon hangs from the bare tung tree
The water clock runs out, all is still
Who sees the dim figure come and go alone
Misty, indistinct, the shadow of a lone wild goose?
Startled, she gets up, looks back
With longing no one sees
And will not settle on any of the cold branches
Along the chill and lonely beach
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 319 |
Words | 64 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
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