Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

Bo Juyi
    (772 – 846)

SPRINGTIME IN LOYANG

Altho’, since last I left, it’s been 20 years,
I know it’s always spring on the roads around Loyang
But I can no longer reach the heart of my youth anymore
Everything else—still just the same as before.

—“made new” by G. G. Gach & C. H. Kwock

–from Rattle #36, Winter 2011
Tribute to Buddhist Poets