Thinking of My Brothers on the Double Ninth Day
poem/Wang Wei   trans./Tao Zhijian
 
Alone in strangers’ land a stranger be,
On fetes the more I miss my family.
Afar my brothers go on hilltops high,
All wearing cornels they miss only me. 

?Published in Poetry Hall: Chinese and English Bilingual Journal, Issue 8, July 2020


九月九日憶山東兄弟
唐代：王維
 
獨在異鄉為異客，每逢佳節倍思親。
遙知兄弟登高處，遍插茱萸少一人。