Wednesday, April 07, 2010

Looking Back

The soaring eagle nests among ruins
The moon returns to the barren branch
And the road winds back to the broken gate
Of the house where you lived so long ago.

- Hu Ming-Xiang

7 comments:

km said...

Just loving the Chinese poems you've been posting.

Anonymous said...

sigh. that was lovely.

Anonymous said...

And.. er.. who exactly is Hu Ming-Xiang?

Anonymous said...

Not Chinese, Falstaffian.

Anonymous said...

:) I thought so.
The poems are very nice.

km said...

Ah, "Falstaffian". Now I get it.

Ire said...

Interesting!