Going Out at Midnight Slightly Drunken

【七律】午夜微醺出门

 

午夜风微云月追，茫茫漠野众星垂。

故人万里隔秋水，寄客十年伤宿悲。

往事悠悠空自忆，清欢落落欲何为。

消愁可唱东坡阙，醒酒还须老杜诗。

 

Going Out at Midnight Slightly Drunken

 

Midnight. The wind is light.

A cloud is chasing the moon.

The moon is more interested in

playing hide-and-seek instead.

 

Under the moonlight, I can still

see the vastness of the desert.

The sky above, a starry dome.

Stars are falling toward the horizon.

 

The people in my mind are an ocean away.

A place my thoughts are tethered to.

After many years I still feel like a guest,

less or more, in America the Beautiful.

 

Memories come and go.

Some are warm, some are cold.

Are they just time's random whirlpool

or something I actively search for?

 

Walking alone in the night,

I feel translucently happy.

Do I just enjoy this solitude

or it's gotten hold of me?

 

If there is any sorrow, its better

dissolved by singing Su Shi's poetic songs.

To knock off my hangover, I'll

have to resort to Du Fu's poetry.

 

(© November 25, 2023, godog)

所有跟帖： 

• Emotional and sentimental, lovely! -waterfowl- ♂ (0 bytes) () 11/25/2023 postreply 13:28:21

• Thanks -godog- ♂ (0 bytes) () 11/27/2023 postreply 16:08:28

• "After many years I still feel like a guest" resonates. -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/25/2023 postreply 13:44:29

• My father said that all the time. Craving for 落叶归根。 -waterfowl- ♂ (0 bytes) () 11/25/2023 postreply 13:54:17

• Learning English is my way to get over that craving. -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/25/2023 postreply 14:23:51

• He just wanted to go back to our hometown 鼓浪屿。 -waterfowl- ♂ (0 bytes) () 11/25/2023 postreply 14:30:32

• I don't miss my hometown of shitizens and gunvernment :-) -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/25/2023 postreply 14:42:12

• Shaking hands -godog- ♂ (0 bytes) () 11/27/2023 postreply 16:09:05

• Hometown only exists in memory.. -卫宁- ♂ (0 bytes) () 11/25/2023 postreply 17:42:23

• Yes and good thing is that it's a memory we can revisit -godog- ♂ (0 bytes) () 11/27/2023 postreply 16:10:32

• 消愁可唱东坡阙，醒酒还须老杜诗。这句特别有共鸣。人生缘何不快乐，只因未读苏东坡。。 -盈盈一笑间- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/25/2023 postreply 19:10:06

• 握手 -godog- ♂ (0 bytes) () 11/27/2023 postreply 16:11:11

• Thepeople are an ocean away. A place my thought tethered to -暖冬cool夏- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/26/2023 postreply 10:11:30

• 特别喜欢这一句！这篇英文写得很感人！赞！ -暖冬cool夏- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/26/2023 postreply 10:13:20

• 谢谢鼓励，谢谢喜欢 -godog- ♂ (0 bytes) () 11/27/2023 postreply 16:08:10

• go兄好分享。中英文俱佳。 -唐宋韵- ♂ (0 bytes) () 11/26/2023 postreply 10:30:10

• “After many years I still feel like a guest”—really? I don't -唐宋韵- ♂ (0 bytes) () 11/26/2023 postreply 10:31:27

• When there were people reminding me that. You were lucky. -godog- ♂ (0 bytes) () 11/27/2023 postreply 16:06:50

• 谢谢鼓励 -godog- ♂ (0 bytes) () 11/27/2023 postreply 16:07:35

• 再读再赞！ -天玉之- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/27/2023 postreply 18:56:18