Poetry from the elementary students of the Xiaohe Poetry Society in Hunan Province, compiled by teacher Liu Xingli

Young elementary school students in China holding up a sign outside on a track.

Poetry from Su Yun

1.攀桥花

你可知攀桥面对乌漆铁栅

你可知宿处不为天然泥崖

不留意鸟歌高不过喇叭

只在乎泥印密不过白花

你吻过泥板灰墙

告别他的掩夹

你拥上尖埃旧梁

还要展却枝丫

近看天色多日沉霞

不比前月胭华

近闻人声多言愁话

不比前时笑洽

指点轮辙辗过绒花

指点红灯笛鸣吹沙

你可见暗色言语人车深压

等待淡化

等待你描尘抹泥的白花

Creeping Bridge Flowers

Do you know you face ink-black iron bars

Do you know your bed’s not natural clay and stars

Heedless that birdsong fades beneath urban calls

Caring only that mud prints out bloom petals’ falls

You’ve kissed earthen boards and ashen walls goodbye

Released their sheltering hold with a sigh

You’ve embraced ancient beams dusted with time

Yet still unfold branches in their prime

Nearby skies hold sunset’s fading grace

Less fair than last month’s rosy face

Nearby voices whisper sorrow’s trace

Less sweet than former joy’s embrace

Watch wheel tracks crush velvet blooms below

Watch red lights and whistles stir dust’s flow

See you not how dark words, crowds, and cars oppress

Waiting to fade away

Waiting for your white flowers to cleanse time’s clay

Su Yun, whose works have been published in more than ten countries and who won the 2024 Guido Gozzano Apple Orchard Award in Italy.

 

Poetry from Qiyue

2.这些年

在雾中,天空被倾斜

这悔恨

无法命名的十年

这朦胧,这默

不能挑剔的十年

叹息或者叹讶

这凌乱,这夜

层叠着反复的这些年

这无序,这恋

我并不能找出遗忘的理由

月色正好,足够颠沛流离

These Years

Through the haze, the sky slants  

—this nameless ache—  

A decade dissolved in mist  

This muted world, this silence  

A decade too vast to judge  

Breath caught between sigh and marvel  

This tangle of shadows, this night  

Stacked like paper—all these layered years  

Disorder dressed as longing  

No reason justifies forgetting  

The moon pours its silver  

luminous enough to bear our wandering  

**Qiyue** (pen name), formerly known as **Yaoye**  

Born post-2000 | Member of Chongqing Fengdu County Writers Association  

Graduate:  

– Intermediate Poetry Class (7th term), Wangyue Yaji Public Welfare Poetry Academy

Poetry from Ding Yuze

3.水山

文/丁宇泽(7岁)

水山跟火山一样

又高又大

也能爆发

The Water Mountain

By Ding Yuze (7 years old)

The water mountain is just like a volcano,

Tall and huge.

And it can also erupt.

Poetry from Bai Ziwei

4.花朵

文/白子薇(10岁)

花朵有很多种

我最爱桃花

它在我家乡

桃花可以帮我看家乡

Flowers

By Bai Ziwei (10 years old)

There are many kinds of flowers.

I love peach blossoms the most.

They are in my hometown.

Peach blossoms can help me keep an eye on my hometown.

Poetry from Luo Yuxing

5.只是一颗糖

文/罗宇兴(9岁)

一颗糖的含义,是什么?

是一颗纯真的心,望着那飘扬的红旗。

一颗糖的含义,是什么?

是一位医生在抢救病人时,医生失去的生命。

Just a Piece of Candy

By Luo Yuxing (9 years old)

What is the meaning of a piece of candy?

It is a pure heart, gazing at the fluttering red flag.

What is the meaning of a piece of candy?

It is the life that a doctor loses while rescuing a patient.

Poetry from Xiao Shiqi

6.世界

文/肖世琦(10岁)

整个世界都是优美的

和平的

平等的

我喜欢这个世界

The World

By Xiao Shiqi (10 years old)

The whole world is beautiful,

Peaceful,

And equal.

I love this world

Poetry from Li Lvtao

7.牺牲

文/李吕涛(10岁)

军人最大的光荣是牺牲

他们不怕牺牲

只怕——

辜负了人民群众

Sacrifice

By Li Lvtao (10 years old)

The greatest honor for a soldier is to make the ultimate sacrifice.

They are not afraid of sacrificing their lives.

What they are afraid of is only ——

Letting down the people.

湖南小荷诗社,由一群乡村小学生组成,指导老师刘杏丽。

Xiaohe Poetry Society in Hunan Province is composed of a group of rural primary school students, and the instructor is Liu Xingli.

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