清明

清明祭先人

 

落英纷纷迎清明

细雨朦朦待食寒

芳草萋萋不忍踏

怨曲声声无心吟

杜鹃啼血半山红

悲歌饮泪欲断魂

异国无处哀思寄

但闻枝头黄鹂鸣

 

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]

久扣月亮门,不见人如故...

[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：

真高兴你也在文学城里有房子。你能写英文诗，真佩服！

这里是我的。

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

你唱的穆桂英，我本来写了几句，发在我博克里，可看了看觉得怪惭愧的。就没敢掺和你们：
http://blog.wenxuecity.com/blogview.php?date=200604&postID=7309

会经常来看你。

子丹