Sunday, April 13, 2025

The Garden of the Golden Valley

By Tu Mu, Tang Dynasty



Prosperity
          lavishness
like scent 
         just gone

Water runs on
grass grows each spring
in the evening breeze
birdsong sounds sad

Falling petals
a fallen beauty
once wrinkled
one’s gone



translated by David Sen and Dick Russell
Dick Russell © Richard M Russell
                       2025 


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