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

芳華

程烈

那一日，斜輝映目
如千年古田
展開徐徐時(shí)光。

我以垂柳為界，修籬種菊
欲在窗欞疏朗下
取一紙斷章。

望盡芳叢斑斕
忽一襲告白，
忽一襲解脫。

2019