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To My Brothers and Sisters Adrift in Troubled Times, This Poem of the Moon
Translated by Witter Bynner and Kiang Kang-hu (1929) · From The Jade Mountain (1929)
My heritage lost through disorder and famine,
My brothers and sisters flung eastward and westward,
My fields and gardens wrecked by the war,
My own flesh and blood become scum of the street,
I moan to my shadow like a lone-wandering wildgoose,
I am torn from my root like a water-plant in autumn:
I gaze at the moon, and my tears run down
For hearts, in five places, all sick with one wish.
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MLA
Chü-i, Po. “To My Brothers and Sisters Adrift in Troubled Times, This Poem of the Moon.” Translated by Witter Bynner and Kiang Kang-hu. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/po-chu-i/138/.
Chicago
Chü-i, Po. “To My Brothers and Sisters Adrift in Troubled Times, This Poem of the Moon.” Translated by Witter Bynner and Kiang Kang-hu. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/po-chu-i/138/.
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