Long-lost villages: brick and tile factory, baby, responsible place, bird's nest

Long-lost villages (group poems)

Shen

Brick and tile factory

A dilapidated scene

Unable to outline

Those obscene photos

Childhood memory

A factory that has long been riddled with holes.

Tear it to pieces and scatter it all over the floor

Crush the weight of each particle of dust

The mud bucket has long been cracked.

On every cracked adobe

Keep clear

Our childhood feet

That's volunteering for a brick factory.

Legacy left behind

The scolding of adults

Is the best reward

Impression under naked disc

highest

Full of pride.

Stepped tile mud

Carrying the artistic dream of childhood.

Give full play to your imagination.

Carve with heart

Carve with time

In the bright fire hall

Disillusioned hope

It takes time to wait.

Wait, wait, wait

We will grow up.

Baby, baby.

That's his name.

Growing up.

Like his conspicuous teeth.

It hasn't changed in years.

It's just rusted for some years.

Zawa spent most of his life in the village.

Farthest from the provincial capital

Still sick.

That serious illness

Let him feel for the first time.

The strangeness of this city

Neon tubes on the eaves

Is the best testimony.

And, of course, the hairpin on his daughter-in-law's forehead.

He bought it in the city and gave it to her as collateral.

Gifts are not necessarily expensive.

But this is the most important thing in life.

Love is that simple.

The baby gave birth to several babies.

Live a monotonous life with my daughter-in-law

No waves.

That his forehead

There are no wrinkles so far.

The face is cleaner than the day in the village.

responsibly

The responsibility of landing in the parents' era.

It's been abandoned a lot.

You can't blame your parents.

Because they are too old to farm.

I can't blame my grandson.

Because they have left their hometown.

Contradictory anxiety.

Covered with green bristlegrass

No one cares about good weather and rain anymore.

No one cares about seasonal changes anymore.

Occasionally meet in a dream

Memories are saturated with green everywhere.

Once poetry and distance

Become a reality and embarrassment.

Moldy in autumn

Slowly decay and disappear

Most of the responsibility has been transferred.

It has become an alternative rural landscape.

The freshness of the soil is still pervasive.

It just doesn't smell like cow dung.

There is no smell of fireworks.

There seems to be something missing.

Bird’s Nest

If it weren't for my father's insistence

The yard in my hometown has long since died.

Father said this is a home again.

I'd better keep it

Leave an idea

Those broken walls covered with grass

There is some grievance.

Like an abandoned child

Painful.

Looking forward to the spring breeze after many years.

Put the accumulated glory of ancestors

And engraved on the zhaobi.

The bird's nest in the tree is a little withered.

Probably because no one feeds it.

Moved out early.

An empty nest is more like an empty rice basket.

There is no value in existence.

Let the wind and rain erode

Birds foraging outside

Maybe thinking about coming back

After all, drought and flood are guaranteed here.

Actually, I want to.

Brief introduction of poet

Shen: a native of Kaiyang, Guizhou Province, now works for Gui 'an New District Power Distribution Co., Ltd., and is a member of Guizhou Prose Poetry Society. He has published nearly 100 literary works in newspapers and periodicals all over the country.