<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460309" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To Li Po (Li Bai) and Uriah</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dear Li Po, <br>strange things happen to poets<br>during their life, <br>especially those who like wine.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But now, more than a thousand years<br>after your suicide, <br>men have named a crater on<br>the planet Mercury with your name…<br>Mercury, the planet the Greeks called<br>Hermes Apollo, messenger of gods and poets; <br>the shining one; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">although men have not been there yet.<br>When they do, they may find you<br>sitting in your crater, watching the Moon<br>(we think it will appear to you<br>two times a day instead of once…) <br>and drinking wine with Uriah; <br>(and your shadows will be there too, <br>tall on the crater’s slope…) <br>you’re teaching him Chinese; <br>he’s translating your poems into English<br>with your approval.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He’d like that. We hope you would.<br>A strange place for immortals to drink wine; <br>but poets do and say strange things; <br>that’s why we love them, just as<br>children love surprises, <br>dear Li Po.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460309" data-title="To Li Po (Li Bai) and Uriah de Michael Shepherd" data-description="Dear Li Po, strange things happen to poets during their life, especially those who like wine. But now, more than a thousand years after your suicide, men have named a crater on the planet Mercury with your name… Mercury, the planet the Greek..."></div> </div> </div>

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