童心

July 11, 2018 元曦 Yuan Xi

處世何必入戲深

各了因緣各歸根

但存一點童心在

野鳥閒花處處春

夜來偶題

July 11, 2018 元曦 Yuan Xi

碧海茫茫夜氣深

故園小別又千春

迴風花翻瓊枝雪

沖煙鶴唳雲吐吞

俯看世事幾陵谷

中有宛爾一幻身

天心人境兩蕭瑟

月照足下步生塵

夜讀

July 10, 2018 元曦 Yuan Xi

乾坤有大道

天下歌至公

及至小康世

不復見大同

子嘆大道隱

長嗟形影煢

天公獨不言

幾人會其衷

萬世有定數

陰陽道在中

夜察天象變

取讀白虎通

夜來偶題 A Casual Poem in the Night

June 1, 2018 元曦 Yuan Xi

紅塵有盡夢已稀

月下征人夜聽笛

兩鬢風蕭身萬里

一襲冷照霜滿衣

想來青山依舊在

歸去著我謝公屐

Lost within the confines of the secular world

My dreams are few and far between

Listening to the flute under the moon

Like a soldier on expedition

Accompanied by the desolate wind

Ten thousand miles away

Shrouded in the cold moonlight

My clothing white as snow

The green mountains must remain the same

When upon my return, I shall go hiking

Wearing pegged clogs like Master Xie*

* Master Xie refers to Xie Lingyun (385-433), one of the foremost Chinese poets of the Southern and Northern Dynasties and a famous practitioner of the Six Dynasties era poetry. Xie’s landscape poems are based on physical and intimate contact with the subject at hand. He toured the magnificent landscapes of Zhejiang with admirable enthusiasm, even designing a type of wooden clog with removable pegs for hiking up and down the mountains. When hiking upward, the pegs were placed underneath the rear part of the clog; when coming downward, the pegs were removed to the front to balance the height difference. People later called this type of clog "Master Xie's Clog".

Translated by Jennifer Zeng

記一夢、子夜偶題