Five-Character Regulated Verse: Spring Bath

2008/4/9 17:18:29

Let's not bother with those boring philistines—let them be tormented by tedious things like stocks.

Spring has arrived, just right for a bath.

Spring Bath

Chán Zhōng Shuō Chán

A spring bath in the Jade Pool's waters,
Mandarin ducks share the river of love.
Wine-flushed in the seat of celestial maidens,
Love's illusion in the mandala.
Jade dew—few are the moments of waking,
Rowdy winds—plenty the places of drunkenness.
Longing to return, the star-path is distant,
Dawn's light flows on of its own in gentle waves.