CHINESE POETRY
Zhang Ji
Moon and Thoughts of You
The full moon,
Has now grown over the sea,
Brightening
All heaven
To where ever hearts may be,
Under moon.
Thoughtfulness
Caught in the long arms of night,
Is no darker
If putting the candle out;
No warmer
If wearing my cloak about;
No matter,
If waiting through to the light;
Wakelessness.
My message
Is left with the rising moon;
On my screen
In my dream,
On moonbeams and the seas tune,
In passage.
Retranslated by Professor Gloom
Gloom 99
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