Su Dongpo (1037-1101)
Remembrance
To what can our life on earth be likened?
To a flock of geese,
alighting on the snow.
Sometimes leaving a trace of their passage.
Wintersweet's note: If I'd read the poem without the poet's name, I'd have guessed it was
Japanese. This sort of meditative consideration of
transience was much more popular in
Japanese poetry.