Twilight on An Autumn Day (Poem)

Twilight on An Autumn Day

 

1

 

The Sun set in a hurry.

Was he hastening to a weekend party?

 

A school of big birds searching in colorful clouds.

For what? Infinite and eternal beauty?

It's a wild goose chase.

 

That couple by the river almost found it.

After they returned home through a moonlit passage, the willow branches also trying to fish it out of autumn water, in vain.

 

2

 

Cooler days have turned grasses yellow.

Falling leaves sing a chorus only the fall can understand.

 

The nostalgia of a traveler grows stronger by the day, especially when he is intoxicated by twilight.

It's a sickness he can't be cured of as long as he is on the road.

 

There might be a cure though if he could somehow use the scythe of the moon to cut the threads bonding him and his hometown, and then ride the sail of the moon to go far away, never look back.

 

But why did he leave his birthplace in the first place?

Was it because something escaped from his life and he tried to track it down, country by country, town by town?

 

Here is a similar situation.

Ever since a fish unintentionally kissed a duckweed and left, the duckweed has been trying to chase it down, river by river, pond by pond, to no avail.

 

【五律】清秋暮色

 

 

风鼓催残阳，雁群彩云里。

岁凉夏草黄，叶落秋声起。

游子独思乡，浮萍空逐鲤。

银钩一帆飏，细柳钓秋水。

 

（写完发现把每联的前后两句交换就是一首押阳韵的五律，只需小改几个出律的字）

 

鹅群彩云里，风鼓送残阳。

叶落秋声起，天凉夏草黄。

浮萍空逐鲤，游子独思乡。

细柳钓秋水，银钩一叶飏。

 

(© September 13, 2023, godog)

所有跟帖： 

• 把每联的前后两句交换就是另一首五律！欣赏学习～～ -盈盈一笑间- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/13/2023 postreply 09:15:29

• 五律同版英文，读起来流畅自如，双赞！ -盈盈一笑间- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/13/2023 postreply 09:19:23

• 谢谢盈盈鼓励 -godog- ♂ (0 bytes) () 09/13/2023 postreply 20:00:46