Landscape No. 2 - Lin Heng-t’ai

Lines of trees to break the wind

And beyond them other

Lines of trees

And beyond them other

Lines of trees

And beyond them others

And now the sea     and the lines made by the waves

And now the sea     and the lines made by the waves

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Lin Heng-t’ai (born 1924) Taiwan

Translated by Jonathan Hall

Source: 'Poetry Movements in Taiwan from the 1950s to the late 1970s: Breaks and Continuities',

Alain Leroux, China Perspectives,  [Online], 68, November- December 2006. [Open Edition Journals]