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Digging through that one poetry anthology again.
(I'm dragging out my time with it... I don't want to toss it back to the library.)

I will confess, aside from being lovely, this poem makes me think of certain pairings that I like, in the sort of self-indulgent way that certain songs might.

So... anyway. Putting it up here because of reasons.

To the Tune of - 'Clear and Even Music'

Since you left, spring is half gone
and everything I see breaks my heart:
a chaos of plum petals falling by the steps like snowflakes
I brush them off and they cover me again.

Migrating wild geese bring me no word of you.
The road is so long that my dream cannot reach you.
The grief of departure is like spring grass -
the farther you go, the deeper it grows.

--Emperor Li Yu (936-978)
Translator: Tony Barnstone & Chou Ping