The Fluttering Blossom: A Song of Longing and the Alibi of Distance

By / / distance, emotion, excuse, flower, hesitation, longing, metaphor, ode, poetry, The Analects, Zi Han IX, Zi Han IX Chapter 31
An ancient poem: The aspen-plum blossoms flutter. Do I not miss you? But your dwelling is far.

How the flowers of the aspen-plum flutter and turn! Do I not think of you? But your house is distant.

唐棣之华，偏其反而。岂不尔思？室是远而。

Source: The Analects, Zi Han IX, Chapter 31 (quoting an ancient ode)

Author: Anonymous poet

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