【七律】歲末印象（二）

【七律】歲末印象（二）

 

多情遭遇略相同，冷暖零丁一歲中。

人海茫茫尋一粟，前緣一一逐雙鴻。

維城再訪人安在，槐國重回夢已空。

每望嬋娟情未了，兩分千裏一屏通。

 

自注：

（1） 維城，指維洛那，羅密歐與朱麗葉居住的城市。

（2） 槐國，指大槐安國，南柯一夢故事裏淳於棼夢中所去的國度。

 

Impression, End of Year (Poem 2)

 

 

Love seekers, be aware, love sucks,

I mean, sometimes. Figure it out

one way or the other. Without it,

though, you'll experience warmth

and coldness in loneliness that

might eat you alive in a year.

 

Why not go out to find that special

drop in the vast sea of people,

even if it might be a wild goose chase.

 

Romeo and Julia did in Verona.

They succeeded in vain.

They failed in triumph.

All this might have happened in

someone's dream under a giant locust tree

whose hollow is as empty as the dream.

 

Every time I look at the moon,

I can see love will linger,

and on that silver screen

separated lovers can see each other,

specially at the end of the year.

 

(© December 30, 2023, godog)