See the world in a sand and heaven in a flower.
-short poems by China poets in my eyes.
Wenli
"See the world in a grain of sand and heaven in a flower" is the first sentence I thought after reading the works of dozens of poets in China Poets. The inaugural issue of China Poets featured more than 100 excellent short poems by dozens of outstanding poets from ten provinces, which can be described as a spiritual feast for us during a busy day. When we hold this book full of ink, it must be the best enjoyment in our leisure time! These short poems are like the vast world we found in a grain of sand and the beautiful paradise we found in a flower.
Recently, different publications have launched short poems collection activities, and the number of lines of poems is generally controlled within 20 lines, and some even limited to nine lines, which is euphemistically called "nine-line poems". Many poets also practice and write Jiugongge poems as a hobby, and have written many excellent works. There is also a special forum for micro-poetry, which gathers a large number of outstanding poets and vows to carry micro-poetry through to the end! This time, China poets are selected within ten lines, at least two lines and at most ten lines. Every poet writes poems with the natural flow of his own emotions. The first poem has a bright spot, and it can't help but be amazing after reading it.
Yang Tuo's poem Spring in the Country is the shortest poem in this essay, with only two lines, which is the least number of lines in this work. Seeing this short poem suddenly reminds me of Gu Cheng's generation: the night gave me black eyes/but I found light with it. Two short poems, with a wide range of topics, reveal a huge theme. In the unity of opposites, the charm of symbols is fully displayed. The poem is concise and lively, but only two sentences express the aspirations of a generation of young people to explore the truth and be full of confidence in winning. Like Gu Cheng, the poet Yang Tuo put forward a proposition from the big picture and put pen to paper from the small one. The content of "Spring in the Country" is too broad, people and things can easily enter poetry, but the poet has fixed the spring in the country in a quiet picture in the field, only using figurative rhetoric to make this picture more tangible, intentional and affectionate in front of every reader. Speaking of the countryside, what remains in our memory are more insects singing in the roadside grass, stars exposed in the sky, the moon that once hung motionless on the treetops with us, and people and things that we will never forget. We know that spring will not happen overnight, so we cherish the spring day in our arms and cherish every dawn, every green leaf, every grass, every bird and every flying feather in spring together. However, compared with the characters written by the poet Yang Tuo, these "chess pieces" scattered on the edge of the "field" chessboard are so bright that people unconsciously think of the saying that "a year's plan lies in spring", but we are more sighing from the heart, and they, some farmers, are practicing it in obscurity! This poem is simple and natural, blending feelings into the landscape. It seems that inadvertently dyed a rich artistic conception. The poem is short and profound, concise, with shallow but rich feelings.
Ma Yongbo's poem Original Sin in the Morning brings us back to the story of Adam and Eve in Genesis. The first grandparents of mankind listened to the temptation of the devil in heaven and reached out to pick the fruit from the tree. Since then, the gate of heaven has been closed, and evil has entered the world, so human beings have the theory of "original sin". But in real life, different people have their own different understandings of "original sin", and what the poet brings us in his poems is probably more care and thinking about life, and the planet that is slowly becoming transparent outside the window will definitely make each of us more and more clear and clean. Tang's poem "acquiescence" uses repeated techniques to point out the topic and uses the sea to find fish to write about human's hard pursuit of ideals. There is a huge gap between the vast sea and a fish, and it is very difficult to realize the ideal. In the noisy living environment, people have to find an ideal way out in the wandering spiritual home, so as to fight against the "barren" spiritual dilemma and seek the truth of life. But just "wanting to give" or "acquiescing" is not enough. The most important thing is the actual actions that human beings pay. Therefore, "thunder in the body" is rolling in, not just "sighing", but what we hear is more from the inner strength. The poet Chuanmei's short poem "Bodhi Tree" is more of an indelible desire in people's hearts. If you don't believe me, please look at a fire burning quietly in the wilderness. Can't the fire of desire start a prairie fire in our hearts?
After reading "Tianjing" written by the poet Han Jiang, it is difficult to breathe. That zipper not only pulls up the skirt of the cliff, but also feels tightly around our throats! The whole poem ends with a question, which is getting shorter and shorter and meaningful. Wei Yuan's poem Tree makes a quiet and beautiful woman stand solemnly in front of you and me. Although we can't hear the pretty figure and the tangled and affectionate language, whose heart is the soft whispering? After reading it, we felt full of sadness and sadness. Why is there such artistic charm? Because "those who are good at seeing the scenery will never describe it and embellish it a little", while "those who are good at expressing their feelings will show it and hide it" (Lu Shiyong's General Theory of Poetry and Mirror). This poem is unique in Taoist scenery and emotion. The poet set the scene with emotion, and set the scene with scenery, so that the scene was integrated into one, and he wrote the true feelings, which were sincere and touching. However, Percy's "Rising Snow" makes us accustomed to falling snowflakes rising, rising, rising again, crying pale and cracking words outside. The unexpected feeling brought by this unique snowflake did not make us feel illusory, but immersed in the misunderstood sky with the poet. We can only feel that the words are sometimes pale and weak, and our hearts are exhausted by normal communication. All this is creating the image of Ruixue. Bian Mei played the flute "Spring is Back", but he intercepted two small scenes in life and brought spring to us at once. Isn't it a portrayal of our mood when the green leaves on the old stump are like birds' mouths waiting for a chirping morning? The Anthurium in the spring water heating is not only a clear wave, but also a trigger to fiddle with our love! The author uses skillful language control ability, the language is natural, straightforward and simple, and the words have far-reaching meaning, so that the beautiful scenery of spring is fixed in the hearts of every reader.
Lizi's Night describes the reasons why flowers laugh and cry through a kind of animal thinking, which is actually a kind of thinking and questioning about the world by human beings and a kind of sadness that is difficult to grasp life. This poem expresses feelings and interests in chanting things, from people to things, and achieves the realm of unity of things and me. Lizi has been writing diligently. The name of a book of poems she has just published is Midnight Shiyu. From the name of The Book of Songs, we can also see the poet's sincere love for the night and the joy of writing in the dark. Although there are so many loneliness and melancholy in his works, I am happy because of writing, and I always think so. Therefore, in my eyes, I live in a plain and graceful poem. She is like the daughter of the night, fiddling with the strings of poetry with slender fingers, and those textured notes fly to the sky. Li Xiaoquan's Black Flower lets us meet a running black flower so close in the dark. Its melancholy, loneliness and nobility are all due to its unique black color. The poet carefully described this running flower with an emotional pen, so that we can't think of evil, cruelty, greed and desire because of its color. Black is not gorgeous, but it is this that makes it elegant and noble, leaving people with infinite reverie and a trace of beautiful sadness. Maybe black can't become as colorful as other flowers, but it will become more charming because of The Light of My Shadow. With keen observation, the poet captures some things that are easy to be ignored in life, and uses popular and concise language to imagine clever comparative descriptions. Not much pen and ink, no intention of rendering, but received a miraculous effect, people have to admire the poet's different state of mind from ordinary people.
There are many excellent short poems, such as Linping on Taiping Island, the subway around Taiping Island, the railway around Taiping Island, the symptoms of three meters deep, the Qingming of the ancient road and the west wind in Xie Rui, Zhang's that he is willing to do, and Chu Wuji's before the cock crows. Simon Leung's My Epitaph, Azhuo Wulin's I am the first wild horse in our village, Liu's Temptation, a flock of sheep laughing at spring, Shenyang is a crow-filled city, Chen Zhong's Masquerade, Ghost Wolf's Dream under the Pomegranate Tree and so on all have their own characteristics, or
Mr. Mu Ren, the advocate of short poems, said: "The separation of short poems from short poems reflects the development trend of people's research on things from extensive to fine, which is conducive to promoting the creation and research of new poems." "Miniature poetry is not a compression of long poems, but an independent and complete poem text, which is short and hidden, small and big. It is like a pavilion in the Grand View Garden, attracting tourists' attention with its unique structure and shape. Once the pavilion loses its sense of wholeness and integrity, it will be broken into bricks and tiles. Even if it is beautiful and exquisite, it will not be able to lift the reader's aesthetic appetite. " Mr. Mu Ren truly expressed the true meaning of short poems, and I think it is appropriate to use this sentence to evaluate short poems within ten lines in this issue of The China Poet. When the poet is only satisfied with displaying images without commenting, these images have some relative independence and flexibility of thinking (poet's). When readers look at them from a brand-new and higher angle, they will find many profound meanings contained in the images, which are not necessarily realized by the author. It is precisely because the screenwriter pays attention to strong lyricism, expands imagination, manages a high degree of generality, does not take the condensed language lightly, and lets the inner musical beauty flow naturally that this poetry activity has achieved a complete success. Thanks for this poetry activity, let me face poetry again, read the poet's every heartbeat between the lines, listen to the poet's every breath, feel the poet's feelings, write happily, read happily, and let each of us live poetically because of the company of poetry!
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