Saturday, June 20, 2015

Zi Ye (6th - 3rd c. B.C.E.)


All night I could  not sleep

because of the moonlight on my  bed.

I kept on hearing a voice calling:

Out of Nowhere, Nothing answered "yes".





From "Women in Praise of the Sacred"
Edited by Jane Hirshfield
Harper Perennial (Harper Collins Publishers) 1995
Translation by Arthur Waley


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