Sunday, November 17, 2024

Flute-Willow-Bloom Night

Flute-Willow-Bloom Night

After Li Po

Who’s fluting Spring out there in the moon-bright gloom?
   Who’s plucking the bloom of the willows down by the river?
Over the city the music and scent of the bloom
Whisper and wake through the blue dim moonlit gloom,
And the ghost of a tune and gusts of the faint perfume
   Are blown in here to set my heart aquiver.
What Spirit’s fluting Spring through the moon-bright gloom
   And plucking the bloom of the willows down by the river?

The Theosophical Path, June 1920

3 comments:

  1. Seems to me that you have revealed enough of his poems to form an individual book thereof....

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  2. I'm working at it, but there is still a good way to go. And so far the poems highlighted have been random.

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