Avulsion Poems | Examples

Today Is Mid-Autumn Festival

Author: Runping Chen

Here is the noisy lodging house
Where I cannot compose a poem in reply to Dongpo’s Prelude to Water Melody
Because whoever can hardly
Bear the accumulated homesickness.
I sang loudly
In a melancholy.

In an avulsion, my voice
Sang to the top of my bent.
The tacit moon, 
crude and rash like that, 
Wouldn’t realize
Her radiance gave a burn to the man away home.

Would you like some moon cake, my friends?
No! I’d rather go outside
And have a bite of the moon.
Therein I might relish that taste.
I wanted to throw my mind up into the starry sky
And swim in the limpid moonlight.

The cool breeze raised the brows of the clouds.
My heart was even brighter than the Mid-autumn moon’s eye 
While however I opened my heart I couldn’t see my hometown
A both ancient and young sadness of parting,
Always classical 
And refreshing now and forever. 


Note:
Prelude to Water Melody is the Ci poem written by the famous poet Su Dongpo in the Mid-Autumn Festival of 1076 (the Song Dynasty). It takes moon, full and crescent, as the symbol to describe the reunions and separations, joys and sorrows of people’s life.