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Alone Looking at the Mountain

All the birds have flown up and gone;
A lonely cloud floats leisurely by.
We never tire of looking at each other -
Only the mountain and I.

Li Po

Submitted: Tuesday, December 31, 2002

Read poems about / on: lonely, alone

Poems by Li Po : 8 / 112

Carlos Echeverria (9/11/2012 2:21:00 PM)
Li Po is lovelorn, but still loves life.
Omolola David (9/11/2012 9:31:00 AM)
Nice one, Short and Articulate
Susanta Pattnayak (9/11/2012 8:31:00 AM)
An unparalleled, lovely classic! !
Sreelekha Premjit (9/11/2012 8:20:00 AM)
your little poem speaks a volume.. amazing
Hunter Hunters (9/11/2012 2:38:00 AM)
It's simple but i tell you, you can write books out of this poem.
Pranab K Chakraborty (9/11/2011 2:01:00 AM)
Birds have given wings to fly, restless their nature never keeps themselves tranquil in peace, they are specially made for flying. But Mountain has a strong root to stay on the ground as the human being has its own nature to follow the ancestors and the strength to keep the strict singularity about their human root also. So, poet transmits his own idea as a man should do. If the root digged firm into the ground that could be the shelter of different birds in different time. So no sad I feel in reading this one.
Noreen Fonseca (9/11/2011 1:41:00 AM)
Few words that makes you think.
Ramesh T A (9/11/2010 7:35:00 AM)
As there is no other that is the thing one can do at that situation!
Herman Chiu (9/11/2009 8:19:00 PM)
Although I by far prefer the chinese versions of his poems, I am still impressed by this english translation.
Good job, and thanks to whoever did this!
Saswata Debray (9/11/2009 7:42:00 PM)
Classic! So beautiful and lovely!