Kaku-an Shi-en
Sung Dynasty China ca.1300 AD
Poem For The Second Ox-Herding Picture
Alone in the wild
Lost in the forest
The boy searches searches
The flooding streams
The distant mountains
The endless path
Exhausted
In despair
Nowhere to go
At dusk he hears only cicadas
Buzzing in the maple woods
From a translation by D. T. Suzuki
Stewart McKenzie
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/truism-06-searching-for-the-ox/
