Where is Spring?

Where is Spring

   

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Down the  south of the Five Ridges

Trees and flowers knows no winter

blooming on all year round 

In the south of the Yangtze River

Plums begin to blossom at New Year  

Breezes blow mild like willow mist

Rain drizzles sweet to the green rapes

But Spring, stops to turn back at that point

It  never seems to favor the North

The so - called chilly spring,

Is actually the die-hard winter,

 

January is a world of snow and ice

February sends whip of winds, sword-like frost

March reveals a land of decayed grass

April, I came out in heavy clothing

To try the soil at the root of wild herbs

And turning to the way the wind blows, loathing

Why you spring tide never crosses Yumen Pass

 

 

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Almost overnight

Grass turns green,

and the apricot trees white with blossoms 

No sooner than the trees budding yellowish hue

sakula fall and cover the sidewalks like snow  

Then the summer overtakes spring

Like a overwhelming crush

Gone, too soon to regret

 

 

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Those clad in winter clothes

Waiting for Spring on the whether forecast

How could they ever get to know where is Spring

 

Let me tell you:

Spring is in the bare branches and twigs

Where hid the buds of new leaves and flowers

Last autumn,the buds of cherries and magnolias

And the grass underneath the earth

Never say die against the whip of wind and sword of frost

 

Those staying in air-conditioned house

Those hustling and bustling as routiners

Those caring not where the next meal comes

Those living to eat and eating to live

How could they ever be desperate for warmth

How could they yearn, and almost couldn’t wait

How could they even care When and where

Is Spring

 

If you are not goats huddling in den fed on straw all winter

If you are not a crow with few dry berries in your nest

If you are not a seed dropped beneath earth

Facing the harsh question of to be or not to be

Either to sprout into life, or frozen and decay

If you are not a flower doomed to flower once for all

If you have never held close to noone but yourself

in the depth of night,cold to heart

How could you ever help, at the thought of Spring

Just like thinking of Love

tears welling up your eyes

 

All the hibernation  

All the endurance

All the despair and wishes

All living creatures

Even vegetables,insects

All human beings,

Live to love

And love to live

In Spring

 

 

 

 

春天在哪里 

        

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江南二月已是桃红柳绿，

风儿吹面不寒，

雨也氤氲生烟。

岭南，从来没有冬天，

树常绿着，花常开着

阳光，止步在北回归线。

 

只有在北方，

一月，雪地冰天，

二月，风刀霜剑，

三月，仍是衰草连天，

四月啊，人间四月天，

我瑟缩捂在冬衣里

在芨芨草苦菜根边

揣摩着土地的温度

伸手  试探风来的方向

为何  春风不度玉门关

 

 

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忽如一夜之间

草色绿了，杏花白了

还没等树梢抹上鹅黄

樱花就落了满地碎玉

之后就是夏天

海潮一样掩过

逝若惊鸿的暗恋

甚至来不及遗憾

 

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瑟缩捂在冬衣里的时候

只从天气预报里等待春天的人

哪里知道，春天在哪里？

 

让我告诉你，春天——

在叶落乌啼的秃枝上

去冬就潜伏着今春的叶蕾

樱花的苞牙，纯洁的玉兰

早在去年秋天就孕育了

泥土下面的小草

从来就没有枯死

一任地上的风刀霜剑

 

那些住在冬暖夏凉的空调房的人

那些行色匆匆不关山水的人

那些不谋稻粱不愁衣食的人

那些不知心忧不知何求的人

哪里苦盼过

    寻觅过

在乎过

    春天在哪里

 

如果你不是挤卧在圈里一冬嚼着干草

如果你栖在寒巢没有几颗干缩的浆果

如果你不是泥土里的种子

命里要么发芽，要么腐烂

如果你不是一生只待怒放一次的野花

如果你没有在长夜

抱紧双肩挨过孤寒

怎么会一想到春天

就像想到爱情

眼中满含泪水

 

所有的韬光养晦

所有的忍饥耐寒

所有的企盼

所有的生灵

草木昆虫一秋

人活一生一世

都是为了爱啊，

在春天！