A couple of poems by Zheng Xiaoqiong.

The Hawthorn Tree (Zheng Xiaoqiong)

This silent lamp, colliding black with another black

Damp. The fresh wind bends through

It wants light, it wants the seductive scent of grass

It wants the rover to gawk, to dazzle, to hold the hand of age

Walking through the square, the hillock, those shadows sprouting

Growing into hawthorns, the plains of the north

They send me my name in snow, in the barren whiteness

bringing the sound of salt as the wind bends by

running over my body from the square and its body from the hillock

We meet in darker memories Shame

We keep it old and graceful on paper

Inside, filled with shame, we

Present heaven and hell on paper

Our shame comes from being silent for too long and too deep

Our shame comes from being silent for too long and too deep<

We forgive our fragile souls in pain

We make nets on paper, hanging fish and wooden beams

Hard justice like a fishbone, stuck in our throats

The trees that we can't speak of, mercury-like

Sullen and towering darkness, which seems like a sharp edge

Times to ask for sorrow and joy with a slight reddish hue, which with me

has a A covenant of faith between life and death that hangs over my heart

It harvests my old, ripe worldliness and childishness

Left with a stainless love, a compassionate heart

Flowering between the black ink that is heavier than the blood

Hatred and sin carried in the nothingness of white paper

We are silent for too long, and our wide foreheads

Growing wrinkled and obsessed with the flesh and blood of the <

Timidity and cowardice, false screams

Fear spreads all over myself and this age

The worldliness of our dwarfism puts the kanji to shame

In the darkness, the truth forbids to be spoken

The inner confusion, what kind of bird is it

What kind of tumultuous soul should it adapt to? Soul

Ah, don't say the word to me, it makes me

Resentful of fate, shut up, fate

After years of silence, I can't find it anymore

I'm just a hollow man, already living in shame

Isn't it enough! Still accustomed to the masked

raising of hands and words, but also I have to leave behind

youth and anger, I owe a debt full of shame to my ancestors, who exchanged their blood and their lives for the motherland with their great love

but nourish me, a parasite

I touch the edge of the countryside and the city, and in the face of the remnants of

love, our Silence will be the shame that cannot be erased

I look into the clouds, the higher

overlook, the unrusted fall and iron

I am in, the widespread voiceless

crowd, the pain and anger in the silence

The tyrannical stone and iron, the words

and the fall, the thought transformation or

Physical destruction, it's armies or tanks

it's insomnia on paper, it's fines and violence

it's poverty and occupational disease ...... collapsing

power, bloodied butterflies perched on the flowers of wounds

last year it was already 10,000 trees of sadness and wind

this year a tree of melancholic hearts in the The wind turns them over

They reappear in the stone ask, this hard

and changeable heart, amongst others into the summer

Clarifies the starry nights and prophecies, the red

world elusive, in need of blood, the power

The ultra-short skirts, the faces of the second wives, her plump

hips hinting at a crisis of some sort, the moon in the rock

with acacia, you rescue a

painful and weary heart with plain and bright rhetoric

or philosophy from India, the etymology of which was originally

a vulgar political lie,, delayed fantasies

with weeping, deep in the spring, and in the winter

the heart of the matter is heavy, and there is left the blood of the summer

pressing down on our You read in the mountains

The landscape of death or life is interpreted by the water of the Duy Liu River

I have arranged many thoughts like the roadside trees on Zhang Yang Road

The past opened its fist, and God is still alive and optimistic

We bear the sorrows that he brings with our poems

The heart is indebted to the earth because of its timidity and weakness

I can't pay it back, nor can we escape it.

We can't pay it, we can't escape it, shame won't be forgiven

Just punish our destiny with self-hatred

This futile writing was originally more fragile than I am, it's like

a heavy stone weighing down, the inner restlessness

with the clamor, the whispering people, the wobbling faces of the bureaucrats

We still have to beg for food with our words and settle down

We still have to beg for food with our words, settle down

When we are ready, we are ready to wait for it. /p>

Waiting for it, to burn out our flesh and souls

Its melancholy is similar year after year, and we make words to remember things