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Blowin' in the Wind
Spring 2015   Vol. 31 #2
Spring 2015   Vol. 31 #2

Poems/Not Poems

To a Firefly

By Gary Gach, Li Bai

 
 

 

Driven rains cannot douse your light

Winds will only fan it brighter

Suppose you’d set off to fly away, very far

Surely beside the moon you’d be, a star!

 

—Li Bai, T’ang dynasty.

   Translated by Gary Gach.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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From the Spring 2015 issue of Inquiring Mind (Vol. 31, No. 2)
© 2015 Gary Gach

 

Author

Translator and poet Gary Gach is editor of What Book!? Buddha Poems from Beat to Hiphop (Parallax Press; American Book Award), author of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Buddhism (Alpha Books; second edition), and translator of three books of poetry by Ko Un, SSN. A teacher of Buddhism and haiku, he serves on the International Advisory Panel of The Buddhist Channel (http://buddhistchannel.tv). He hosts Mindfulness Fellowship weekly in San Francisco. Visit www.levity.com/interbeing.

Li Bai (701–762), also known as Li Bo, was a prominent Chinese poet of the T’ang dynasty. 

Author

Translator and poet Gary Gach is editor of What Book!? Buddha Poems from Beat to Hiphop (Parallax Press; American Book Award), author of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Buddhism (Alpha Books; second edition), and translator of three books of poetry by Ko Un, SSN. A teacher of Buddhism and haiku, he serves on the International Advisory Panel of The Buddhist Channel (http://buddhistchannel.tv). He hosts Mindfulness Fellowship weekly in San Francisco. Visit www.levity.com/interbeing.

Li Bai (701–762), also known as Li Bo, was a prominent Chinese poet of the T’ang dynasty. 

 
 
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