‘Plum Flowers’ To The Tune Of ‘Fortune Teller’ By Yu Lu
PLUM FLOWERS – In this topic, we are now going to read a poem ‘Plum Flowers’ To The Tune Of ‘Fortune Teller’ by Yu Lu.
Yu Lu or Ly Yu was a Chinese tea master and writer. He is known and respected as the Sage of Tea due to his major role to Chinese tea culture.
Yu Lu is also well known for his monumental book that talks about cultivating, making and drinking tea called “The Classic of Tea”.
His works include, Caught In A Drizzle On The Way To Sword Gate Mountain, Idleness, and this poem that we are going to read today.
Here is the full poem uplifted from the website PoemHunter:
By a broken bridge outside the horse relay station
plum flowers bloom for no one.
Already it is evening and sad and lonely
and they are beaten by rainy wind.
They don’t wish to compete for spring,
though other flowers envy their early blossoming.
When petals drop to the mud and are ground to dust
the fragrance remains the same.
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