Feelings on Watching the Moon
The times are hard: a year of famine has emptied the fields My brothers live abroad – scattered west and east. Now fields and gardens are scarcely seen after the fighting Family members wander, scattered on the road. Attached to shadows, like geese ten thousand miles apart Or roots uplifted into September’s autumn air. We look together at the bright moon, and then the tears should fall This night, our longing for home can make five places one
Bai Juyi
(772 AD – 846 AD)
Bai Yuji wrote over 2,800 poems, which he had copied and distributed to ensure their survival. Two of his most famous works are the long narrative poems Song of Eternal Sorrow, which tells the story of Yang Guifei (楊貴妃), and Song of the Pipa Player. He is renowned in Japan as well, where he is called Haku Rakuten.