【五律】暮雨
隻道早秋暖,那知秋雨涼。
風吹蘆笛短,燕撥雨弦長。
憑檻一簾掛,迎光萬點揚
人煢荒漠暝,夢遠舊泥香。
Twilight Rain
I thought the early fall is gonna be warm,
but the autumn rain is unseasonably cold,
down from the unapologetic sky.
Blew by the wind, the flutes of reeds are short.
Zipping back and forth, a swallow
plucks the long strings of the rain.
Someone hangs a flowing curtain
in front of the porch railing.
Looking toward the street light, I see
thousands of flying mayflies, glittering.
The rainy twilight, a beauty
in the eye of a lonely beholder,
is getting dimmer and dimmer,
eventually swallows the entire desert.
Mesmerized, he falls into dreams
with the scent of some old mud
that they stepped on in another time.
(© October 15, 2023, godog)