2021-03-22

Li Po


Tá na héin bailithe leo isteach sa spéir
is an néal deireanach ag leá den saol.

Mé féin is an sliabh, suímid le chéile
go dtí nach bhfuil fágtha ach an sliabh féinig

Li Po
(701 - 762)



The birds have vanished into the sky,
and now the last cloud drains away.

We sit together, the mountain and me,
until only the mountain remains.

English version by Sam Hamill
-- from Endless River: Li Po and Tu Fu: A Friendship in Poetry, Translated by Sam Hamill