Ts'ai Chi'h

Ts'ai Chi'h - meaning Summary

Falling Petals, Quiet Decay

A brief, image-driven vignette of transience and residue. Pound presents a small scene—petals falling into a fountain and ochre rose-leaves clinging to the stone—to evoke fleeting beauty and the stain left behind. The poem compresses motion and aftermath into spare sensory detail, suggesting memory, decay, and the persistence of color as a quietly elegiac trace rather than a narrated event.