清明

清明祭先人

 

落英紛紛迎清明

細雨朦朦待食寒

芳草萋萋不忍踏

怨曲聲聲無心吟

杜鵑啼血半山紅

悲歌飲淚欲斷魂

異國無處哀思寄

但聞枝頭黃鸝鳴

 

Qing Ming

-In Memory of Jay

 

On a bright clear spring day

We went to visit your new grave.

Candles lit, fruit and cakes offered.

Yellow spider web chrysanthemum

Decorated your newly erected monument.

Ph.D, mathematician, father, husband

Friend, forever carved in stone.

New grass grew on the spot

Where you lay,

Soft and tender to the touch

Fuzzy hair

On an infant's head.

The old man in the cemetery told us

Not to leave anything unnatural,

For deer and rabbits

Were friendly neighbors

Sharing the offerings.

We led the children

Ketou to you.

Your elders stood solemnly watching,

Too old to bend.

Eyes misty, we forced a smile

For the camera

To catch the moment

For your parents to see.

Were you there in the air

Sharing this moment with us

Watching the children play?

Don't think you would mind

Children enriching the soil

In the nearby bush.

They said you could smell

The scented candle and the flavor

Of sacrifice. Yet they

Did not want us to say

Good-bye, for fear

You would follow us home

And become a wandering soul.

 

So on this bright clear day

We left you there

When the day was still young.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[simplylove]

This's so nice and you can write poem in English! Keep going and have fun... people are watching~ :)))

[LingYuan]

久扣月亮門,不見人如故...

[林子丹]

You should post your poems in forums,such as this one:

http://web.wenxuecity.com/BBSList.php?SubID=culture

I don't have many visitors either as I haven't posted anything in wenxuecity recently. I posted most of articles before I opened my blog. It is OK.

Also, we have another way to contact, the QQH. I am going to send you one now.

[jjxx99]

Thanks, Zidan! It's really lonely here. No one know about it. I wonder how will people know that I have a little cabin in this woods?

[林子丹]

菊舍：

真高興你也在文學城裏有房子。你能寫英文詩，真佩服！

這裏是我的。

http://blog.wenxuecity.com/myblog.php?blogID=7121

你唱的穆桂英，我本來寫了幾句，發在我博克裏，可看了看覺得怪慚愧的。就沒敢摻和你們：
http://blog.wenxuecity.com/blogview.php?date=200604&postID=7309

會經常來看你。

子丹