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I unfortunately can't read this poem (or post it) in the original Chinese, but I love it in translation. Like a lot of the Li Bai poetry I've read, it's short and gorgeous. Unlike some of the Li Bai poetry I have read, it is not about drinking. Poetry can be about so many things!

You ask me why I stay up here
    alone on the green mountain.
I smile, but give no other answer—
    and yet, my heart's at leisure.

The peach blossom floats away on the stream,
    carried far by the water.
Here, apart from the human world,
    I have heaven and earth together.

—Li Bai (701-762), "Question and Answer on the Mountain," translated by Keith Holyoak, and in this case from Facing the Moon: Poems of Li Bai and Du Fu (Oyster River Press, 2007).