Listen to this articleFeelings on Watching the Moon
Bai Juyi
The times are hard: a year of famine has emptied the fields,
My brothers live abroad- scattered west and east.
Now fields and gardens are scarcely seen after the fighting,
Family members wander, scattered on the road.
Attached to shadows, like geese ten thousand li apart,
Or roots uplifted into September’s autumn air.
We look together at the bright moon, and then the tears should fall,
This night, our wish for home can make five places one.
《自河南经乱关内阻饥兄弟离散各在一处因望月有感聊书所怀寄上浮梁大兄於潜七兄乌江十五兄兼示符离及下邽弟妹》
时难年饥世业空
弟兄羁旅各西东
田园寥落干戈后
骨肉流离道路中
吊影分为千里雁
辞根散作九秋蓬
共看明月应垂泪
一夜乡心五处同
