View of Poyanghu From Hanshan's Five Breasts Temple

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Deadwood Body

Hānshān Déqīng 1564-1623 My body is like deadwood my thoughts are like ashes there's snow on my skull and frost on my jaw I don't distain the world just because I am old dust finds no place to land in my eyes

Xíng Rú Kūmù

Xíng rú kūmù niàn rú huī Xuě mǎn tóulú shuāng mǎn sāi Bù shì lǎo lái piān yànshì Yǎnzhōng wú chù zhù chénāi

Translator:

Red Pine-Bill Porter 赤松

Notes: This translation from the anthology of Chinese monk poets, The Clouds Should Know Me By Know, edited by Red Pine and Mike O'Connor, published by Wisdom Press.

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