Bai Juyi: Years Of Famine -- Family Fields Bare, Hard Times Ne'er Cease, And My Brothers And I Are Scattered West And East.白居易 時難年荒世業空，弟兄羈旅各西東。 Poem by Frank Yue

WANG YUE YOU GAN:
Looking at The Moon with Emotions
-- by Bai Juyi (772-846)
-- Translated by Frank C Yue

Years of famine -- family fields bare, hard times ne'er cease,
And my brothers and I are scattered west and east.
After the fighting, green fields and gardens are few.
Dispers'd, my brothers hit the roads each day anew --
Like the hundred-miles-apart geese shadows remote,
Uprooted, in th' ninety-day Autumn air we float.
Together, tears should fall as we watch the bright Moon tonight --
Be united as one from five homesick spots, we might!


【望月有感】 唐 • 白居易

時難年荒世業空， 弟兄羈旅各西東。
田園寥落干戈後， 骨肉流離道路中。
弔影分為千里雁， 辭根散作九秋蓬。
共看明月應垂淚， 一夜鄉心五處同。