Saturday, 12 June 2010

Mirror Pond on Mount Taibo in Shanxi

The water and my mind have both settled down
Into perfect stillness.
Sun and moon shine bright in it.
At night I see in the surface
The enormous face of my old familiar moon.
I don't think you've ever met the source of this reflection.
All shrillness fades into the sound of silence.
But now and then a puff of mist floats across the mirror.
It confuses me a little
But not enough to make me forget to forget my cares.

by Hsu Yun
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9 comments:

  1. Harry Riley12 June 2010 at 14:57

    "...not enough to make me forget to forget my cares..."

    Yup, still puffs of mist, but that's all they are...

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  2. Sue12 June 2010 at 15:10

    Yes, it's true. But, alas, I often forget this, and then fall across it again for the millionth time :)

    It never loses its delight upon reacquaintance :)

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  3. Cloudbusting12 June 2010 at 17:33

    This is beautiful! "the enormous face of my old familliar moon"

    just lovely :)

    Hope you are feeling better, Susie

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  4. Mike Farley13 June 2010 at 21:17

    Beautiful! Thank you, Sue...

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  5. Kel14 June 2010 at 12:18

    still water does make a good mirror
    but only when given enough light to reflect off

    the light is coming back
    one more week till the turnaround
    :)

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  6. Sue16 June 2010 at 09:35

    Andi - I am feeling better now, thank you darling. I love that line too :)

    Mike - you're welcome! :)

    Kel - Mm, good point there :) But still, there's something good and deep too, about a moonless night. I think Maggie has rubbed off on me :)

    One more week, yes. There are some solstice celebrations going on at Fed Square this weekend I am looking forward to partaking of (http://www.fedsquare.com/index.cfm?pageID=471) Come on down, if you're in the area :)

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  7. Kayce aka lucy16 June 2010 at 14:52

    Love this poem! Thank you :)

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  8. K.17 June 2010 at 12:30

    As you are fading into winter, we are blossoming into summer. I hope you'll share whatever way you celebrate this solstice... I've been challenged to mark it in some significant way.

    I've left you a bit of "love" over on my blog... you are under no obligation from me to do anything except receive it in the manner in which it was intended!

    <3

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  9. Sue18 June 2010 at 10:17

    Lucy - good to see you and glad you like it.

    Kimber - ooh, thanks for the prompt. I have got a few ideas about winter to write about - going to some solstice celebrations here in Melbourne, so I hope to write about that. SO much harder to make time to blog these days *sigh*. Why is it so hard to carve out time to do all the best stuff??

    Thanks for the blog love :)

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