孟郊诗
Poems of Meng Jiao
Index
春雨后
After Spring Rain
昨夜一霎雨 天意苏群物 何物最先知 虚庭草争出 |
Last night a sudden downpour. Heaven's will: Make everything new. And what was the very first to respond? New grass sprouting in the empty courtyard. |
-- 孟郊
废话
In some of these later short poems, Meng Jiao is leaving behind literary tradition and self-involvement. What remains is pure poetry such as found in Zen poetry in Japan. A kind of twenty-syllable haiku. I wonder if there are instances of this from prior to the very early 800s.