Tu Fu



Tu Fu

The oldest soul to ever live
in the land of make-believe.
Drinking Dragon's Eye tea
from the pool of illusion.

One eye is the golden Sun,
the other the silver Moon.
Across a landscape of Jade mountains
and "drifting sand in the wind."

Disappearing in a storm
beyond the Island of the Immortals
to an abandoned temple.
A stone pillow for dreams.

A god of poetry--
older than words.

                                    from "Whistling Past the Graveyard"

About this poem

The poem is a biographical fantasy.

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Written on March 28, 2015

Submitted by learnott1958 on December 25, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XXAB BXXX XXXX AX X
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 463
Words 89
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 2, 1

Linda Arnott

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