One chinese quatrain


Poetry 2021-01-05

My first serious try on writing 絕句zyut6geoi3, a classical form of Chinese quatrain (and its translation in English).

懷玉谿生凝聽冬月江林樹雀狂啼 （又題：作者是社甫）

百鳥朝移冥復返
千禽眾唱獨猶噥
孤雛直入天星火
旭日終沾俗焰紅

Jyutping (Cantonese equivalent of Pinyin)
百baak3 鳥niu5 朝ziu1 移ji4 冥ming4 復fuk6 返faan2
千cin1 禽kam4 眾zung3 唱ceong3 獨duk6 猶jau4 噥nung4
孤gu1 雛co1 直zik6 入jap6 天tin1 星sing1 火fo2
旭juk1 日jat6 終zung1 沾zim1 俗zuk6 焰jim6 紅hung4
In Memory of Yuxisheng --- Listening to Wild Tree Bird Twitters by a River in Novemeber (Translation)
(Alternate: This Poet is She Fu)

In dawn a hundred birds shift, in dusk they return.
In sync a thousand warblers chirp, but still one whispers.
Falling into the halo of the sky-star, the lone nestling shall burn.
That body heavenly will be tainted, by the sanguine of mortal glisters.

P.S. Yuxisheng is also known as (Li Shangyin).
P.S.2 She Fu is a common mistaken name for Du Fu due to 社Shè's similarity in form with 杜Dù.