Tang Bohu: Not Heating Up The Tripod For The Elixir Pill, Nor Doing Deep Meditation While Sitting Still唐伯虎 不煉金丹不坐禪 饑來吃飯倦來眠 Poem by Frank Yue

"NOT HEATING UP THE TRIPOD FOR THE ELIXIR PILL"
-by Tang Bohu (Ming dynasty)
-Translated by Frank C Yue


Not heating up the tripod for the Elixir pill,

Nor doing deep meditation while sitting still -

I eat when I am hungry,

I go to bed when I'm sleepy.

All my life, my poetic brush draws paintings mellow;

I love admiring the beautiful Flower and the Willow.

Both the body and Spring grow old, in the mirror 'tis
found;

Before the lamp, the husband and wife watch the Moon round.

Ten thousand rounds of utter happiness,

A thousand rounds of fuzzy drunkenness -

In this world, he who roams leisurely

Is surely an Earthly Deity!


(2013.09.03)


《不煉金丹不坐禪》 明 • 唐伯虎


不煉金丹不坐禪，饑來吃飯倦來眠。

生涯畫筆兼詩筆，蹤跡花邊與柳邊。

鏡裏形骸春共老，燈前夫婦月同圓。

萬場快樂千場醉，世上閒人地上仙。