An Expedition Through a Chinese Garden

Join me now
    As I go on an expedition
Through a Chinese garden
    Where narrow rock paths lead
Deep and twisting
    Through bamboo groves
A red wooden bridge
    Arches above
Crystalline ripples
    And lotus pads
Adorned with dew-jewels
    Sparkling bright
Those sounds — hearken!
    The chime of falls
Cascading over
    Moss-strewn rocks
Cicadas are chirping
    As willow strands
Swing lightly
    In the fragrant breeze
Scholars discuss
    Ancient poems
In a pavilion perched
    On rocky crags
Shrubs and outcroppings
    Obscure our view
And tantalized
    We still explore.

In truth the garden
    Be my soul
Wherein secrets reckoned
    By number as many
As the sand grains
    By the sea
Remain unknown
    Even to me
And tantalized
    We still explore.