The Youth in Bloom

By Cheng Lie

One day l just saw the soft and bright of afternoon sunlight
it was like on the fields for thousands of years
the warm sunshine spread the slow time on them.

I used willows as guards, built fences and planted chrysanthemums
wished to get a stanza while I sit by
a bright and clean window.

When viewing beautiful flowers on sight, two silhouettes passed by
one is the declaration of fate,
the other just for moksha.

2019/ translated by Chen Zihong

芳华

程烈

那一日，斜辉映目
如千年古田
展开徐徐时光。

我以垂柳为界，修篱种菊
欲在窗棂疏朗下
取一纸断章。

望尽芳丛斑斓
忽一袭告白，
忽一袭解脱。

2019