【五律】大漠秋晚
鹊噪叶飘飘，山高野寂寥。
魂栖生命树，人度寞石桥。
诉冻钟声近，怀人雁影遥。
试寻檐下燕，已往赵家巢。
Late Autumn in the Desert
Magpies made a fuss when leaves were falling.
You didn't foresee this, fortune tellers?
Still your cawing made the desert field quieter,
while the tall mountain looked on silently.
At season's turning, my soul lives
inside the tree of life that had
its lush moments and its dull moments.
Together we strode across that lifeless bridge.
Nearby a bell is ringing "dong, dong, dong…"
as if saying "frozen, frozen, frozen…" in Chinese.
In the far away sky, geese are forming
the letter 'humanity' in Chinese.
I look for the swallows living under my eaves,
but they are all gone. Maybe they have found
another house to build nests and live with
people who don't speak a foreign language.
(© November 20, 2023, godog)
