Poem of the Day » Tu Fu http://www.shortpoems.org/poem Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:19:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.2 Restless Night http://www.shortpoems.org/poem/restless-night/ http://www.shortpoems.org/poem/restless-night/#comments Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:24:17 +0000 tejvan http://www.shortpoems.org/poem/2008/04/16/restless-night/ As bamboo chill drifts into the bedroom,
Moonlight fills every corner of our
Garden. Heavy dew beads and trickles.
Stars suddenly there, sparse, next aren’t.

Fireflies in dark flight flash. Waking
Waterbirds begin calling, one to another.
All things caught between shield and sword,
All grief empty, the clear night passes.

by Tu Fu

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