Poems by Zhimo

Author: Xu Zhimo
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Publish Date: 1983-08-01
Features: Excerpt: That is an island, with green grass, fresh flowers, beautiful beasts and flying birds; quickly board this light boat and go to that ideal realm—love, joy, freedom————Farewell to the human world, forever! Thank heaven! My heart trembles once again. Thank heaven! My heart trembles once again. This blue sky, the green sea, and the clear sunlight have dispelled the traces of joylessness during the rainy season, and have also released the webs and knots in my heart, like the crisp dew of a Datura flower, forgetting confusion in the realm of the ethereal and free:———Confusion, confusion! I don’t know where it came from, but it imprisons the natural expression of my soul, a terrifying nightmare, the boundless cruelty of the endless night, the desperate longing for awakening, only intensifying the numbness of the soul! How many days, evenings, and mornings have mocked my life like a silkworm cocoon that produces nothing? And how many moons, star clusters, clear clouds, and the heights of mountains and the brilliance of flowing water have been wasted! Wasted by the earnest calls of nature, unable to awaken this drunken stupor and stubbornness!