Cold Mountain owns a house with no partitions inside six doors open left and right from the hall he sees blue sky wherever he looks it's bare the east wall greets the west nothing stands between them no need for anyone's care he makes a small fire when cold comes cooks plants when hunger arrives he isn't like the old farmer enlarging his fields and sheds creating nothing but hell-bound karma once begun it never ends think this over well think and discover the key | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...QUATRAIN: FROM EASTERN SOURCES: 2 by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH PSALM 74 by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE THROUGH THE METIDJA TO ABD-EL-KADR by ROBERT BROWNING THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: THE PEDLER by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON THE MARCHING FEET by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT THE CHESS-PLAYER by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE MUSIC; READ AT ANNUAL DINNER OF HARVARD MUSICAL ASSN., 1874 by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH |