<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460813" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>0372 Reflection on a garden pond</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">It's unexpectedly mild this early Spring evening<br>and I take my glass of beer, cold in the hand, <br>and slide the patio door open and step out for the first time this year, <br>feeling like an intruder in my own garden, so strange in the twilight.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then, melted by awe and gratitude<br>to see an unplanned wild violet<br>which has taken up residence between the cement slabs.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Between other slabs the miniature bamboo stubbornly returns, <br>(that was my Japanese year) and in the tiny pond, <br>soon to be turned into a living soup by amorous frogs <br>to the total puzzlement of the white cat, watching for an hour or so<br>and extending from time to time an ineffective paw, <br>or nosing the water unable, either, to gulp a tadpole -<br>in the tiny pond, something bright; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">a dancing reflection in the water stirred by an evening breeze -<br>the moon; <br>the same moon that danced on the water for Li Po<br>as he drank from his wine cup <br>alone and at peace, so far, so long ago; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">in a poet's solitude and contentment <br>and the thought of distant friends, <br>celebrated with wine<br>under the moon, on a spring evening, <br>in perfect happiness.</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=460813" data-title="0372 Reflection on a garden pond de Michael Shepherd" data-description="It's unexpectedly mild this early Spring evening and I take my glass of beer, cold in the hand, and slide the patio door open and step out for the first time this year, feeling like an intruder in my own garden, so strange in the twilight. Then..."></div> </div> </div>

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