The Movement From the Rice Fields
If you have never seen it,
How could you hear the song here;
If you have recited the poem "To Commiserate Farmers,
There will be more understandings shining in the night sky;
The movement composed with sweats rippled along the rice ear waves
The hot July or August suns were grilling the ground
As flames flipping their notes all around.
Farming folk songs were sung loudly from the straw hats,
Combined with the rumbles of the threshers,
Meanwhile golden grains piled mountainous heights.
Look! The moon and stars came along with
The sun hanging on.
From dawn to dusk, they were embracing the tanned back.
When didn’t they play the live keys
For the sound hopes in the waters and soils?
Listen! Can it be regarded as resonant songs?
With thy eyes taking a photograph of
The golden farm of rice,
And patting at our stomach,
A movement for the rice fields, shouldn’t we compose?
Note: The poem "To Commiserate Farmers" is a well-known poem written by Li Shen, a famous Chinese poet in Tang Dynasty, which shows the poet’s sympathy on the poor farmers’ working and living.
Copyright © Runping Chen | Year Posted 2018
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