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Youth and Poetry
By Su Yun
 Plant a Girl in Spring Su Moyan, 10 years old Gongye Road Primary School, Gaocheng District, Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province Plant a girl in spring The spring breeze gently wakes her up Green grass dyes her hair Soft willows comb her tresses Little bees hurry over with water pots To feed her the sweetest drink She puts on a colorful dress Wears dewdrop silver earrings And has a costume party with butterflies …… She blooms The whole world knows Autumn Classroom Xue Runnan, 9 years old Guanzhuang Primary School, Jiashizhuang Town, Gaocheng District, Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province Leaves fall quietly The autumn classroom starts its term Teacher Autumn Wind teaches them To dance, sing, and play games In their own postures They welcome the next spring A Snail Knocks on the Flower's Door Xu Mingze, 9 years old Guanzhuang Primary School, Jiashizhuang Town, Gaocheng District, Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province A snail knocks on the flower's door The flower opens its petals The snail says with a smile "The rain wet my little bottom Can I take shelter from the rain at your place?" Giraffe Yang Haoqi, 9 years old Guanzhuang Primary School, Jiashizhuang Town, Gaocheng District, Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province The giraffe is my good helper I can't reach the apples The giraffe helps me Can't reach the beautiful leaves The giraffe helps me But the giraffe can't reach the sky How can I help it? The Snowflake's Disguise Han Xinyou, 9 years old Guanzhuang Primary School, Jiashizhuang Town, Gaocheng District, Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province Little snowflakes mutter to themselves in the air "Having been a snowflake for so long It's so boring" So It falls on the pear tree Disguised as white pear blossoms If Humans Could Hibernate Xue Linze, 9 years old Guanzhuang Primary School, Jiashizhuang Town, Gaocheng District, Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province If humans could hibernate Little animals would all come out Watch movies Eat popcorn Be bosses Drive cars …… In spring People wake up As if nothing happened Doing their own things No one knows The animals' secret The Stars' Class Xue Chang, 9 years old Guanzhuang Primary School, Jiashizhuang Town, Gaocheng District, Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province The sun sets The moon rises The stars start their class Teacher Moon is as gentle as a mother Teaching little stars to practice shining bright The wind claps its big hands Applauding for them Little Tree Xue Yaxuan, 9 years old Guanzhuang Primary School, Jiashizhuang Town, Gaocheng District, Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province My family planted a tree Once I kicked a football And hit the tree The little tree cried Its leaves fell rustling down I walked to the little tree Imitating grandma's way Blowing on its wound The little tree smiled Its leaves rustled happily If I Were a Flower Guo Yaman, 9 years old Guanzhuang Primary School, Jiashizhuang Town, Gaocheng District, Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province If I were a flower I would stay open 24 hours for the bee family Let them eat their fill during the day And have midnight snacks at night Dragon Boat Festival Zongzi Xue Tianle, 9 years old Guanzhuang Primary School, Jiashizhuang Town, Gaocheng District, Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province Mom wrapped one by one Triangular houses I took a gentle bite And the house collapsed Sleeping Li Yijia, 9 years old Guanzhuang Primary School, Jiashizhuang Town, Gaocheng District, Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province Nighttime Can't fall asleep Little eyes Turn and turn Searching for sunlight Little Flowers by the Road Xue Zimo, 9 years old Guanzhuang Primary School, Jiashizhuang Town, Gaocheng District, Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province By the roadside Little flowers bloom Along the way You will see Little lamps one by one Lighting up the night Lighting up the spring Spool of Thread I rummaged through an old trunk and found a spool of thread Thus evading the furtive rain That intruded through the roof And the mud that betrayed the wooden beams and collapsed Untarnished, unbroken This thread, after decades Stitched a group of men and women from infants into adults On several crops of cotton, embroidered tigers turned into mandarin ducks It was a cherished spool of thread, indeed I hold the soft wooden core's handle How should I arrange these dozens or hundreds of inches of cotton fibers? Stick a needle into her as an ornament? Or tear her off and wind her around a new elm core? Undecided But I'll never let her sew cotton-padded clothes or cloth pieces again Nor let her embroider tigers or mandarin ducks Find her long-lost husband ——the smoke-blackened oil lamp And bury them together Su Yun, 17 years old, is a member of the Chinese Poetry Society and a young poet. His works have been published in more than ten countries. He has published two poetry collections in China, namely Inspiration from All Things and Wisdom and Philosophy, and one in India titled WITH ECSTASY OF MUSINGS IN TRANQUILITY. He has won the Guido Gozzano Orchard Award in Italy, the Special Award for Foreign Writers in the City of Pomezia, and was praised by the organizing committee as the "Craftsman of Chinese Lyric Poetry". He has also received the "Cuttlefish Bone" Best International Writer Award for those under 25. *Note: All these poems have obtained the approval of their teachers, who personally submitted them to me. Additionally, consent has also been given by the teenagers themselves and their parents. |
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