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1.
Ode to plum
When departing, last spring had wind and rain as it's escort.
On returning, the new spring is welcomed by snowflakes flying in cold.
Clad with layers of ice, the cliffs rise sheer and high,
Where amazingly a plum blossom is so bright.
Bright
She is always contented to be the harbinger of spring.
Till the moutains are covered with flowers sweet and fair,
She is cheering with them in the early year's fresh air.
2.
On Plum Blossom
Windy rain had sent spring away
Flying snow has welcomed spring back
Leagues of ice freeze high cliffs
Yet pretty are yon blossoming branches
Though fair but not to rival spring
Seasonal harbinger is plum blossom
For when the hundred flowers flame the hills
She smiles amongst the crowd
3.
Ode to the plum flower
Wind and rain take Spring back home,
flying snow welcomes Spring's come.
Cliffs, already hundred foot of hanging ice,
yonder, a flower springs out so fair.
Fair yet not vain to say "I am Spring",
but just to announce Spring is here.
When all the flowers are blooming and blossoming,
she will stand amidst all and smile mere.
4.
Ode to the Plum Blossom
Wind and rain escorted Spring's departure,
Flying snow welcome Spring's return.
On the ice-clad rock rising high and sheer
A flower blossom sweet and fair.
Sweet and fair, she craves not Spring for herself alone,
To be the harbinger of Spring she is content.
When the mountain flowers are in full bloom
She will smile mingling in their midst.
5.
Ode to the Plum Blossom
to the tune of Pu Suan Zi
On reading Lu You's Ode to the Plum Blossom, I countered it with the following lines.
Wind and rain escorted Spring's departure,
Flying snow welcomes Spring's return.
On the ice-clad rock rising high and sheer
A flower blooms sweet and fair.
Sweet and fair, she craves not Spring for herself alone,
To be the harbinger of Spring she is content.
When the mountain flowers are in full bloom
She will smile mingling in their midst.
6.
Ode to the Plum Blossom
to the tune of Song of Divination
After reading Lu You's "Ode to the Plum Blossom," I composed the following to the same tune yet opposite to Lu You's in theme.
Wind and rain escorted Spring to go,
Now spring returns welcomed by flying snow.
High on the cliffs are icicles hundred-foot long, there,
A flower springs up so fair.
So fair she is, yet, not so vain
As to dominate Spring but to say it comes again.
One day when all flowers bloom in different styles,
She stands amid them all and smiles.
