Wind and Flowers
风 花
海 棠 桃 李 雨 中 空
更 着 清 明 两 日 风。
风 似 病 癲 无 藉 在
花 如 中 酒 不 惺 松。
身 如 楚 峤 远 更 远
家 寄 秦 淮 东 复 东。
道 是 残 红 何 足 惜
后 来 并 恐 没 残 红。
Feng Hua
Hai tang tao li yu zhong kong
Geng zhao qing ming liang ri feng.
Feng si bing dian wu jie zai
Hua ru zhong jiu bu xing song.
Shen xing chu jiao yuan geng yuan
Jia ji qin huai dong fu dong.
Dao shi can hong he zu xi
Hou lai bing kong mei can hong.
Wind and Flowers
Peach, birch leaf pear, and plum trees barren, rain-filled skies
After two days of wind at Qing Ming everything is clean and clear.
Seasonal winds move about like a crazed and epileptic person
Flowers like some wine, pine trees also not sober.
Chu mountain peaks in the distance, my life full of travels
Living further east from the Qin Huai River.
Along footpaths, red flower parts and petals full of regret
Afterwards, the small patches of red and I will disappear.
Commentary
Being a former palace person, Yang has to slide through the mud to arrive in his place of exile.
Qing Ming: Observance in early April of ancestors by cleaning and caring for their gravesites.