This is my first piece for senior thesis. I chose to work with poetry and I'm really enjoying it so far. This was inspired by a Chinese poem by Li Po:
In the distance I can hear
a dog barking
and the sound of fast water
rain-filled peach blossoms
shower me as I walk
sometimes, deep in the trees,
I glimpse a stag
standing by a creek at noon
I can't hear
a single bell
overhead the wild bamboos
divide a cloud blue sky
a flying spring
hangs a white plume
from a jade-green peak
he's gone, they don't know where
I lean my grief
on two or three pines
and walk away
- Translated by David Young
