<p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:20px;">Sudden Light (8 Others Follow)</span></p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"> by Yang Zhiming </p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;">Before I realized more than sixty </span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;">years have slipped away.</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;">To keep the river of years from flowing I helplessly have no way.</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;">?Now as I am slowly getting older and </span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;">older day by day,</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> I resignedly have to own more and </span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;">more yesterdays day after day.</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> I can not stop the old man of the </span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;">time whispering every day:</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;">Remember you have fewer and fewer</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;">tomorrows from today.</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;">Facing the slowly setting sun I also helplessly have nothing to say.</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;">How I wish I could meet Wu Yong</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;">and ?ask him to show me the way.</span></p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:20px;"> 偶感（外8首）</span></p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> 楊芝明</span></p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> 一晃不覺花甲過，</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> 無力阻止歲月河。</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> 日復(fù)一日鬢染霜，</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> 昨日昨日復(fù)其多。</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> 奈何時光耳邊語：</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> 明日明日余幾何。</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> 殘陽冉冉我無語，</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> 渴遇吳用指點我。</span></p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> 13/01/2023于北京</span></p> <p class="ql-block"> <span style="font-size:20px;">癸卯兔年憶一九九三</span></p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"> 楊芝明</p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> </span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> 一九九三是何年？</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> 燃情歲月嘉華年。</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> 二〇二三奔古稀，</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> 莊蝶曉夢三十年。</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> 卅載河?xùn)|似昨年，</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> 卅載河西傷流年。</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> 古今多少英雄淚，</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> 泣訴人不再少年。</span></p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> 29/01/2023</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> 農(nóng)歷癸卯兔年正月初八于北京</span></p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:20px;"> Looking Back Upon 1993 at</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:20px;"> Lunar Guimao Year of the Rabbit</span></p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"> by Yang Zhiming</p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;">?What year was 1993?</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;">That time I was living and working </span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;">feeling no tiresome.</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;">2023 is seeing me going on the way </span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;">to 70 years old.</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;">?Before I realized the 30 years have</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;">?slipped away like a dream.</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;">I'm feeling everything in the past 30 </span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;">?years is as fresh as yesterday.</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;">Actually I have made me a young </span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;">man </span>an old man in the 30 years' time.</p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;">Countless past and present heroes </span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;">and heroines shed tears.</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;">They shout they can do everything</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> but cannot call back their youth time.</span></p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> 30/01/2023</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> Lunar guimao year of the Rabbit </span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> zhengyue chujiu (正月初九) in Beijing</span></p> <p class="ql-block"> <span style="font-size:20px;">十年</span></p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> 楊芝明 </span></p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> 二〇二三猛回頭，</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> 遠(yuǎn)離江湖已十年。</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> 背井離鄉(xiāng)當(dāng)北漂，</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> 助兒攜幼度愉年。</span></p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> 02/02/2023于北京</span></p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> </span><span style="font-size:20px;">Ten Years</span></p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:20px;"> </span>by Yang Zhiming</p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block">Just entering 2023 turn round with </p><p class="ql-block">a swift sighing how time flies !</p><p class="ql-block">I've been away from the competing</p><p class="ql-block">bread winning career for ten years.</p><p class="ql-block">Having left my home town and folks</p><p class="ql-block">for Beijing as an old BEIPIAO.</p><p class="ql-block">To help my son bringing up his young</p><p class="ql-block">daughter spending remaining years.</p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"> ——03/02/2023 Translated from</p><p class="ql-block"> my own Chinese poem 《十年》</p> <p class="ql-block"> <span style="font-size:20px;">少與老</span></p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> 楊芝明</span></p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> 人人年少盼變老，</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> 眼見老者多逍遙。</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> 誤把年少當(dāng)煩惱，</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> 到老方知羨年少。</span></p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> </span><span style="font-size:20px;">Young vs. Old</span></p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"> by Yang Zhiming</p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;">?How everyone at young age wishes </span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;">to grow old quickly.</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;">They see old people almost do </span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;">nothing but live leisurely.</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;">They look upon their young age as a </span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;">burden mistakenly.</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;">When really old they wish they could</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;">grow young again strongly.</span></p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> 05/02/2023于北京(Beijing)</span></p> <p class="ql-block"> <span style="font-size:20px;">偶感</span></p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:20px;"> </span><span style="font-size:18px;">楊芝明</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> </span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> 自憐天地一沙鷗，</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> 滄海一粟幾度秋。</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> 泱泱華夏五千載，</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> 滾滾長江向東流。</span></p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> </span><span style="font-size:20px;">Sudden Light</span></p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:20px;"> </span><span style="font-size:18px;">by Yang Zhiming</span></p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;">?I'm nothing but a lonely sandgull or a</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;">drop in the seas.</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;">My life is as short as a drop in the</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;">sun becoming into vapours.</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;">Great great China has gone through </span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;">five thousand years.</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;">The rolling rolling Yangtze River </span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;">eastward majestically flows.</span></p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> 11/02/2023于北京(Beijing)</span></p> <p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:20px;"> 有所念</span></p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> 楊芝明</span></p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> 人人無不有所念，</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> 所念豈止戀人間。</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> 人生過往皆會想，</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> 南望思君又一年。</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> 二〇一三終賦閑，</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> 北漂三千六百天。</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> 多少夢縈在故里，</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> 與君觴酌話無邊。</span></p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> 寫于2023年</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> 西方情人節(jié)于北京</span></p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> About Miss You</span></p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> by Yang Zhiming</span></p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block">No matter who he or she is he or she has somebody to miss.</p><p class="ql-block">Miss you is no patent for two falling in love and calling each other dear.</p><p class="ql-block">In our life almost everyone we met will possibly come to our minds.</p><p class="ql-block">Looking to the south I have missed you day and night for another year.</p><p class="ql-block">In 2013 I retired from bread winning </p><p class="ql-block">after working for more than 30 years.</p><p class="ql-block">Now I have been an old BEIPIAO for more than 3600 days in Beijing here.</p><p class="ql-block">Many a time I have dreamed l was still living in my familiar hometown.</p><p class="ql-block">You and me chatting far into the night and drinking wine and beer.</p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"> ——Written on Valentine's Day </p><p class="ql-block"> of 2023 in Beijing</p> <p class="ql-block"> <span style="font-size:20px;">解鄉(xiāng)愁</span></p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> 楊芝明</span></p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> 北漂鄉(xiāng)愁難釋懷，</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> 科技文明為吾開。</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> 縱有關(guān)山八萬里，</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> 無騎紅塵滾滾來。</span></p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> 05/03/2023于北京</span></p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:20px;"> Home-food Sickness Relieved</span></p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> by Yang Zhiming</span></p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;">I've been suffering from home-food sickness since coming to the capital as an old BEIPIAO.</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;">The modern civilization of science and technology can help me solve all my puzzling problems.</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;">?Though eighty thousand li between the imperial city and my hometown I don't have to worry now.</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;">Trucks or trains or planes will carry what I want to me instead of horse-carrying in ancient times.</span></p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> 05/03/2023 in Beijing</span></p> <p class="ql-block"> <span style="font-size:20px;">鄉(xiāng)愁</span></p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> 楊芝明</span></p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> 十年老北漂，</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> 鄉(xiāng)愁夢縈繞。</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> 何以解鄉(xiāng)愁？</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> 唯有臘豬腳。</span></p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> 12/03/2023于北京</span></p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> </span><span style="font-size:20px;">Homesickness</span></p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> by Yang Zhiming</span></p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;">I have been as an old BEIPIAO for ten years.</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;">So often </span>I wish my homesick dreams would come true.</p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;">What can relieve my homesickness and lure my cheers?</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;">Nothing but a home preserved pork leg will do.</span></p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> 12/03/2023 in Beijing</span></p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;">附：家門兄長楊昌育唱和《鄉(xiāng)愁》：</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> 幫你加長！</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> 離鄉(xiāng)十載作北漂，遙望南疆夢縈繞。</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> 要問何以解鄉(xiāng)愁？酸菜豆米臘豬腳！</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;">?楊芝明：加酸菜豆米更鄉(xiāng)土，鄉(xiāng)愁更</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> 濃。</span></p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;">注：楊昌育乃我家門兄長，我們同歲，</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> 從小他來我往，同在董干中學(xué)讀</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> 書，我倆不是同胞共母，勝似同胞</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> 共母?；謴?fù)高考，我考起文山師范</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> 中專英語班，他考起昆明師院，也</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> 是英語專業(yè)。我倆還同在麻栗坡縣</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> 一中工作多年，后來，他去麻栗坡</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> 縣民族中學(xué)當(dāng)校長。再后來，他去</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> 了文山州一中。2005年，我應(yīng)聘到</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> 文山市第一中學(xué)。</span></p> <p class="ql-block"> <span style="font-size:20px;">奔七后的幸福</span></p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> 楊芝明</span></p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> 人生過往似偶然，</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> 其實必然不逆轉(zhuǎn)。</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> 只要明朝醒安在，</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> 翁嫗幸福粗茶飯。</span></p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> 20/03/2023于北京</span></p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;">? Happiness When Approaching 70</span></p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> by Yang Zhiming</span></p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;">In our life what happened to us in the past seemed to be accidental.</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;">But as a matter of fact all those were inevitable and irreversible.</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;">As long as we can wake up tomorrow morning and feel comfortable，</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;">Coarse tea and rice can be considered as happiness for us old couple.</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> </span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> 21/03/2023 in Beijing</span></p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;">?后記：我不知道還有一個“國際幸福</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> 日”，我寫下這首詩后兩天，在</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> 網(wǎng)上看到3月22日是“國際幸福</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:18px;"> 日”。</span></p>