Winter Chinese Poems | Examples
These Winter Chinese poems are examples of Chinese poems about Winter. These are the best examples of Chinese Winter poems written by international poets.
I sit
reading poems of Chinese sages
with their paintings of mountains and mist
from a thousand years ago.
Outside, snow falls like it did then,
and inside, I muse on it and the ways of the world
as they did too.
In between, the sights and sounds of today wash over me
like in a dream
in a place and as a person I am always
only just getting to know
never quite sure I can accept
or trust what they have to offer;
security and comfort,
while snow continues to fall
amid mountains cloaked in mist.
(1/4/2021, first published in my 5th book of poems and stories, EXTRACTING THE ESSENCE, 2021)
I left home in dreams of battlefield glory,
When Pea flower dot the golden brown cole
In the delicate bloom of late spring.
I cycled to the frontlines,
Wheels whispering of broken prophecies.
The great willow seemed to know me in roundabout,
So sent forth a shower of riverside catkin.
I return home as snowflakes whirl in a winter night,
Ice blurring my line of sight.
The children, unknowing
Run past and bow respectfully
As to any travelling elder, a companion in wooden stick.
They think me a stranger and speak of good wine,
Gone was the willow and cole flower,
In dreams now I only see fields of lusty green.
Who can understand my sorrow now?
I wash with frozen river water,
For there’s none the wiser,
None quite so forgiving.