Chapter 1 Selected Poems of Chen Jingrong
evening sky after the rain,
Quiet as the shawl on the shoulders of a praying woman;
The blueness of leaves is a flowing sea,
The hot body bathes there.
We sheltered from the rain under the locust tree,
Sitting and watching the clouds after the rain,
Watch the evening recede, watch the night march,
Look at the first star in the treetops.
something sleeps in time,
With imaginary sorrow?
What often flies away from the years,
What else is flying quietly?
Hand in hand, heart to heart,
The brook silently listens to us;
When a frog hops in the grass,
I seem to see the earth blinking.
1946
singer full of voice
Concentrate on a momentary tremor
dancer for a pose
The breath of a lifetime
The clouds in the sky, the ocean on the ground
before the big storm comes
with eerie silence
The fusion of passions of all mankind
waiting in agony
a common dawn
1947
I often stop at
a passing wind
i tend to get lost in
a bell by chance
cloudless blue sky
also caused me to feel sad
I drink the same blueberry
from a grass or a pine
waiting ship
wings to be shaken
Arrows, on the strings of confusion
buried your gallop
fire night
There is a shadow of fleeing
in front of familiar things
suddenly feel strange
the universe and us
categorically divided
1946
Pearl in the clam, it has an expectation
It knows that the highest happiness is
Giving, not burying bitterly
Many days of sunshine, many nights of moonlight
There are also occasional storms and huge waves
It has already accepted all this
In its growth, becomes its
all.in the clamshell
it listens to footsteps from all directions
Some hurried, some hesitated
those footsteps
passed by, it tightened its grip
light, not shining at the right time
However it has an expectation
It knows which direction the bead seeker is coming from
With what sincerity and longing
come to it; then it will reveal
The secret gauze, solemnly to life
Unfold and plunge into a whole new world.
1948
When the weeds are quietly turning green,
A message is whispered across the universe—
What lurks in the shadows?
what fire, what light,
What trembling hands?
Oh don't ask; don't ask the way
How strange, don't remember behind your back
How many vipers of memory squirm,
Joy and sorrow, hope and disappointment...
Stepping over the crumbling walls,
Let the dead century dream sleep deeply.
When the weeds are quietly turning green,
A message is whispered across the universe—
The frame of time can't stop us,
Didn't the desolate ancient times already exist
Ever had that first light of light?
Brutal civilization, with hypocrisy and intrigue,
To torture primitive humanity, let us first
is ourselves, every metamorphosis
Each has a different start and finish.
When the weeds are quietly turning green,
A message is whispered across the universe—
An infinite number of lines emanating from a single point.
A point, a small origin,
It leads to infinitely larger circles.
Oh, can't let cunning lies
cheat us!let's go
In every morning that forsakes the night.
1948
The fire dies in the ashes,
Whose finger knocked off Lengmeng?
There was still a peck at the little door.
Listen to the sound of the clock and answer, let’s be a train for now,
I have a long journey under my pillow
long solitude.
Come in, you ghost of the night,
You may be a cat, a beetle,
Come and knock on my lonely door every night.
All gone: the peck on the door,
The wind on the roof.I love the landscape in this dream;
Who, tap again in my dream...
if you come;
on a lukewarm night,
come softly,
knock on my lonely door and window;
if you come,
without saying a word,
on your trembling shoulders,
Lean against a white wall.
From my pensive chair I shall
stand up quietly
find it in the pages
a withered flower
Put it on your skirt.
I will give you a silence too,
a deepest gaze;
And when you walk away again,
I shall weep—
because of happiness,
Not sad.
You have a gurgling river
Pour life into lifeless soil,
How much light, shadow, sound, color,
Finally condensed,
You knocked away the dream soul of the millennium;
Let the images each have a seat:
The gentleness of a beautiful woman, the strength of a tiger,
The silent complaint between the brows of the victims,
The wisdom of the prophet
Ripples all around.
Sometimes everything follows you in one pose
stop suddenly;
under your axe,
Space shrinks, time hesitates,
And you will always keep the original simplicity.
1947
Yes, we should close our eyes,
Do not ask what is not allowed to ask right and wrong;
We know our job is to endure
In the end; we have to be willing
give up everything we have,
Together with a pile of bones after being hacked.
When the ruthless sword and ax try to cut
all the grass roots that will sprout,
Poor man, you are still infatuated
Want to irrigate the cursed freedom!
The earth is best at hiding dirt,
But can't tolerate a stubborn seed,
Though the truth pleads bitterly.
You rage, argue, gnash your teeth—
That's what you deserve, and you've got to live through it all:
The violent wind and rain, the cruel sun...
1948
"You never get tired of looking at two things, only Jingting Mountain" - Li Bai
goofy
no wings
voyage
no sail
Outside the small courtyard
an ancient locust tree
day and night
Jingting Mountain
but there is sea water
day and night
turned up in the heart
raging waves
invisible sea
it has no shore
no matter morning or evening
same deep
same blue
same sea
same mountain
you have your arrogance
i have my dark blue
In the bustling port,
ships and ships
carrying different groups of people,
sail separately;
People pass by indifferently on the street,
Indifferently kicking up the dust,
Let the voices merge into a clamor,
people come and go,
Clinging to their own destiny.
But on the stormy sea,
Ships and ships beckon kindly,
when they meet by chance;
And desolate mountains or isolated islands,
people's ears anxiously
Waiting for strange words.
1945
Just the ordinary in the ordinary,
Like a blue sky without iridescence,
How much is hidden in that deep silence,
It will forever deeply cover all phenomena of the universe.
From the beginning of Hongmeng to our century of wind and cloud,
(Hey, don’t mention it!) History can’t turn over piles of sludge;
Want to learn from the primitive giants, with a plow and hoe,
Dig deep into the heart of this civilization.
When all the veneer peels off,
Truth will be heard crying in secret.
Storms and storms, for a brief hour,
Donate everything to clear the clouds.
1947
How many cold winters and long nights,
The unknown spring is locked in the rock,
The wind of the wilderness, whirling
Clouds, congealed into blood and flesh,
Waiting, waiting on and on...
What is calling you finally
Arise, leap out of the firm silence,
Fanned the long-buried flame?
all voices trembling
Quiet, all listening intently—
Life, your first and last language.
Primal enthusiasm stops here
Sigh, thirsty lips are here for the first time
close together; when the desire to grow
Through the rain, through the fog, with the sun
Woke up, the wind did not dare to disturb, and the clouds also avoided.
O majestic creation of the universe, would have
Not with reserve, but with love.
1948