刘叉 洒肠宽似海，诗胆大如天。Spilling out my guts, they are like the ocean wide; My poetic boldness is as huge as the sky.

   《自问 》      唐 • 刘叉

自问彭城子，  何人授汝颠？
洒肠宽似海，  诗胆大如天。
断剑徒劳匣，  枯琴无复弦。
相逢不多合，  赖是向林泉。
 
ZI WEN: "Asking Myself"
-- by LIU CHA
-- Translated by Frank C Yue
 
I ask myself about the "Son of Peng City" --
By whom have you been given this insanity?
Spilling out my guts, they are like the ocean wide;
My poetic boldness is as huge as the sky.
A sharp but broken sword would just the scabbard waste;
On a decaying qin, no sound string would e'er stay.
Though we have met, there is not much communion;
I'd seek the serene woods and fountain for union.