Sudden Light (8 Others Follow) / 偶感（外8首）

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Sudden Light (8 Others Follow)

by Yang Zhiming

Before I realized more than sixty

years have slipped away.

To keep the river of years from flowing I helplessly have no way.

Now as I am slowly getting older and

older day by day,

I resignedly have to own more and

more yesterdays day after day.

I can not stop the old man of the

time whispering every day:

Remember you have fewer and fewer

tomorrows from today.

Facing the slowly setting sun I also helplessly have nothing to say.

How I wish I could meet Wu Yong

and ask him to show me the way.

偶感（外8首）

杨芝明

一晃不觉花甲过，

无力阻止岁月河。

日复一日鬓染霜，

昨日昨日复其多。

奈何时光耳边语：

明日明日余几何。

残阳冉冉我无语，

渴遇吴用指点我。

13/01/2023于北京

癸卯兔年忆一九九三

杨芝明

一九九三是何年？

燃情岁月嘉华年。

二〇二三奔古稀，

庄蝶晓梦三十年。

卅载河东似昨年，

卅载河西伤流年。

古今多少英雄泪，

泣诉人不再少年。

29/01/2023

农历癸卯兔年正月初八于北京

Looking Back Upon 1993 at

Lunar Guimao Year of the Rabbit

by Yang Zhiming

What year was 1993?

That time I was living and working

feeling no tiresome.

2023 is seeing me going on the way

to 70 years old.

Before I realized the 30 years have

slipped away like a dream.

I'm feeling everything in the past 30

years is as fresh as yesterday.

Actually I have made me a young

man an old man in the 30 years' time.

Countless past and present heroes

and heroines shed tears.

They shout they can do everything

but cannot call back their youth time.

30/01/2023

Lunar guimao year of the Rabbit

zhengyue chujiu (正月初九) in Beijing

十年

杨芝明

二〇二三猛回头，

远离江湖已十年。

背井离乡当北漂，

助儿携幼度愉年。

02/02/2023于北京

Ten Years

by Yang Zhiming

Just entering 2023 turn round with

a swift sighing how time flies !

I've been away from the competing

bread winning career for ten years.

Having left my home town and folks

for Beijing as an old BEIPIAO.

To help my son bringing up his young

daughter spending remaining years.

——03/02/2023 Translated from

my own Chinese poem 《十年》

少与老

杨芝明

人人年少盼变老，

眼见老者多逍遥。

误把年少当烦恼，

到老方知羡年少。

Young vs. Old

by Yang Zhiming

How everyone at young age wishes

to grow old quickly.

They see old people almost do

nothing but live leisurely.

They look upon their young age as a

burden mistakenly.

When really old they wish they could

grow young again strongly.

05/02/2023于北京(Beijing)

偶感

杨芝明

自怜天地一沙鸥，

沧海一粟几度秋。

泱泱华夏五千载，

滚滚长江向东流。

Sudden Light

by Yang Zhiming

I'm nothing but a lonely sandgull or a

drop in the seas.

My life is as short as a drop in the

sun becoming into vapours.

Great great China has gone through

five thousand years.

The rolling rolling Yangtze River

eastward majestically flows.

11/02/2023于北京(Beijing)

有所念

杨芝明

人人无不有所念，

所念岂止恋人间。

人生过往皆会想，

南望思君又一年。

二〇一三终赋闲，

北漂三千六百天。

多少梦萦在故里，

与君觞酌话无边。

写于2023年

西方情人节于北京

About Miss You

by Yang Zhiming

No matter who he or she is he or she has somebody to miss.

Miss you is no patent for two falling in love and calling each other dear.

In our life almost everyone we met will possibly come to our minds.

Looking to the south I have missed you day and night for another year.

In 2013 I retired from bread winning

after working for more than 30 years.

Now I have been an old BEIPIAO for more than 3600 days in Beijing here.

Many a time I have dreamed l was still living in my familiar hometown.

You and me chatting far into the night and drinking wine and beer.

——Written on Valentine's Day

of 2023 in Beijing

解乡愁

杨芝明

北漂乡愁难释怀，

科技文明为吾开。

纵有关山八万里，

无骑红尘滚滚来。

05/03/2023于北京

Home-food Sickness Relieved

by Yang Zhiming

I've been suffering from home-food sickness since coming to the capital as an old BEIPIAO.

The modern civilization of science and technology can help me solve all my puzzling problems.

Though eighty thousand li between the imperial city and my hometown I don't have to worry now.

Trucks or trains or planes will carry what I want to me instead of horse-carrying in ancient times.

05/03/2023 in Beijing

乡愁

杨芝明

十年老北漂，

乡愁梦萦绕。

何以解乡愁？

唯有腊猪脚。

12/03/2023于北京

Homesickness

by Yang Zhiming

I have been as an old BEIPIAO for ten years.

So often I wish my homesick dreams would come true.

What can relieve my homesickness and lure my cheers?

Nothing but a home preserved pork leg will do.

12/03/2023 in Beijing

附：家门兄长杨昌育唱和《乡愁》：

帮你加长！

离乡十载作北漂，遥望南疆梦萦绕。

要问何以解乡愁？酸菜豆米腊猪脚！

杨芝明：加酸菜豆米更乡土，乡愁更

浓。

注：杨昌育乃我家门兄长，我们同岁，

从小他来我往，同在董干中学读

书，我俩不是同胞共母，胜似同胞

共母。恢复高考，我考起文山师范

中专英语班，他考起昆明师院，也

是英语专业。我俩还同在麻栗坡县

一中工作多年，后来，他去麻栗坡

县民族中学当校长。再后来，他去

了文山州一中。2005年，我应聘到

文山市第一中学。

奔七后的幸福

杨芝明

人生过往似偶然，

其实必然不逆转。

只要明朝醒安在，

翁妪幸福粗茶饭。

20/03/2023于北京

 Happiness When Approaching 70

by Yang Zhiming

In our life what happened to us in the past seemed to be accidental.

But as a matter of fact all those were inevitable and irreversible.

As long as we can wake up tomorrow morning and feel comfortable，

Coarse tea and rice can be considered as happiness for us old couple.

21/03/2023 in Beijing

后记：我不知道还有一个“国际幸福

日”，我写下这首诗后两天，在

网上看到3月22日是“国际幸福

日”。