Sung: Su Shih (also Known as Su Tung-p’o)
The cold-food observance poem-note in Huang-chou（黄州）
Since i have come to the city Huang zhou yet
Through three cold observances so far and
Each year been with holding the dying spring back but
in vain. This year it occurs with spring rain a-pelting through two months
As if in fag-end of autumn. Dryly lie on bed, behind my door
sadly hearing the rains pouring down Malus spectabilis
and shattering down their petals Off and left the peduncles
Starkly naked in muddies. That is Like a stealer arriving at my land as
a midnight shady-visitor After while left
with hands full of those pink beauty-petals;
and as that a teenager regained health but with his white-haired
Spring waters are rising so high and yet want in my doorway,
my mind-unfolding bathing-hut as a leaf of a boat is floating upon cloudy-fogged waters。Cooking simple menu in the kitchen empty
burning the wet reeds in the broken-oven;
and with the eye-watering smoke, I have seen
a crow holds a paper in its beak, showing its bitterness of want.
Oh, today’s the new cold food observance I nearly forget.
Even behind king’s nine-doors there would be nine locks tightened
But ten thousand miles away is always my ancestor’s graveyard
So think about a sing-song sung by the man Ruan-chi(阮籍)
just yet for my heart “ no-way to go”—no-way
for blowing dead-fire from cold ashes to revive anyway
The cold-food observance poem-note
in Huang-chou(黃州)
Since I have come to the city Huang-chou(黃州)yet
Through three cold-food observances so far and,
The cold-food observance poem-note
in Huang-chou(黃州)
Since I have come to the city Huang-chou(黃州)yet
Through three cold-food observances so far and,
The cold-food observance poem-note
in Huang-chou(黃州)
Since I have come to the city Huang-chou(黃州)yet
Through three cold-food observances so far and,
The cold-food observance poem-note
in Huang-chou(黃州)
Since I have come to the city Huang-chou(黃州)yet
Through three cold-food observances so far and,
The cold-food observance poem-note
in Huang-chou(黃州)
Since I have come to the city Huang-chou(黃州)yet
Through three cold-food observances so far and,each year been with trying to hold the dying spring back but
