Plum rain halts, river's still, sails fall Isle's near, smoke's clear, wild **** soughs By the dock, fishermen sing an old tune I am home, far from Land of Shu
A dream, a song, two scores fly by In a monk's thatched hut, I hear the rain impinges upon the earth
A tribute to Du Fu (712-770), one of the greatest Chinese poets lived in the Tang Dynasty. Due to the An Lushan Rebellion, he lived in exile for the second half of his life. This poem is anything but reality: he died on his way to Tan Zhou, thousands of miles away from his home, Chang' an