秋日田园杂兴 (8)
新筑场泥镜面平
家家打稻趁霜晴
笑歌声里轻雷动
一夜连枷响到明
Autumn (8) translated by SL Kong; calligraphy by T.C. Lai
On the newly paved yard smooth as a mirror
All families thresh the harvest grains in frosty fine weather
Singing and laughing the joy rambles like gentle thunder
The rhythmic frail beats go on until dawn without hinder
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In Praise of Autumn
A season you are
Not like any other
Golden leaves lingering on trees
Ready to mix with other colours to please
Wonders in your cloudless sky eternally shine
Bounty melons fruits and corn witness farmers’ pride
Where sheep and cattle graze meadows are left bare
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Visiting West Lake in Spring 
Lone Hill north looks on the Jia Pavilion east
Beneath low clouds the lake water brims at ease
On the sun-warmed trees orioles compete to trill
With mud in beak to where goes the swallow
Seeing so many flowers my eyes are dazzled
On the short grass soft banks horse hooves show
How can I stroll the east bank enough I love so
Under green willow shades the White Sand Dyke glows
Tune: Eternal Pining 
As the BianRiver slowly flows
So is the Si River chattily goes
They reach the ancient dock at Gua Zhou
The distant hills in the south mark my sorrows
My longings continue to show
So do my complaints endlessly go
They will cease whence my love returns to me
Now I stand alone on moonlit balcony
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I watch at the park a girl of five or four
Hands outstretched she jumps repeatedly to catch a hanging ball
The autumn morning sun is shining ever so soft
It warms and encourages the girl to jump more and more
Sitting nearby her mother is concerned her daughter may fall
She calls her to stop the jumps once for all
Nearby an old man mutters as the mother tells the girl her fun was ample
‘Tis not the ball but the reaching the man continues with his mumbles
A Faithful Widow__Meng Jiao (751-814)
Plane trees of different genders grow old together
Mandarin ducks live and die in pairs a wonder
A faithful wife stands ready to die sacrificial
Life lost is accepted as natural
My heart is still as water in an old well
It has no possible ripples to tell
（其一）（其二） （其三）
On the Ci En Pagoda__Jing Shu 荊叔
To whom the hills and rills of the Han Dynasty now own
Great Emperor Chin’s tomb is deep with wild grass overgrown
Girding the central plateau plain a thousand li of mountains loom
Every inch of this terrain stands witness to human sorrow and moan
A Soldier’s Complaint__Lu Zhong Yong 柳中庸
I fought at GoldRiver and JadePass year after year
Each day I held my sword on my steed I fiercely reined
Three springs in a roll soldiers’ tombs are covered by snow
Mother River girds the Black Mount for miles its water yellow
Pipe Music at Surrender Town__Li Yi 李益
Sands on the foot of Mount Hui Le is white as snow
Above the Surrender Town the frosty moon hangs high
A pipe song lingers from where’re no one knows
Warriors lie homesick awake throughout the night
《Tune: Treading on Grass》 Thoughts in visiting the Glacier by Kong Shiu Loon
Grand is the Arctic scenery
Sky and ocean-land in harmony
Billion-year snow sitting stationary
On helicopter I marvel the intricate beauties of the icy territory
On the ground my breathing lets out cold mists not ordinary
What wonders can Nature’s hands create
Making immobile glacier its flows in wait
Alarmed are we to find fellow species extinct today
The cause is pollution induced global warming
Survival requires curtailment of desires for material wellbeing