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Today's poem is by Wang Chih-huan (translated by Red Pine)

Climbing White Stork Tower

The midday sun slips behind mountains
the Yellow River turns for the sea
trying to see for a thousand miles
I climb one more story



Copyright © 2003 Red Pine All rights reserved
from Poems of the Masters
Copper Canyon Press
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