Return to the West: Thirty Four-Line Poems: No. 2
西 归 绝 句： 十 三 首
五 年 江 头 损 容 颜
今 日 春 风 到 武 关。
两 纸 京 书 临 水 读
小 桃 花 树 满 商 山。
Xi Gui Jue Ju: Shi San Shou
Wu nian jiang tou sun rong yan
Jin ri chun feng dao wu guan.
Liang zhi jing shu lin shui du
Xiao tao hua shu man shang shan.
Return to the West: Thirty Four-Line Poems: No. 2
Spent five years in Jiangling, a time for aging
Five years later, spring breezes arrive in military-held mountain passes.
Read aloud Bai Juyi’s two-sheet letter waiting in the capital for me to arrive
Surrounding mountains filled with small peach tree flowers.