Words...

[dibyendra]

This Life

Watching this life, burning too fast
to meet its end, like a burning string,
melting the wax of the candle.
Life seems like a playback of movies,
created by the God, projected on the silver screen.
What if we exist, but only inside the maze of dreams,
and what if the death is a plan of the God
just to wake the beings from their dreams?

[dibyendra]

Lost in the bedlam, where there are no saviour.
Every step I make, the quicksand pulls me in.
The fragmented pieces of life sink helplessly in despair.
Soon, this flickering light will also extinguish.
This life seems like a smoke, and it is slowly disappearing.

[dibyendra]

The flames of fire are the claws
that devour the painless body.
Nothing remains in the end,
just the ashes, that drift astray...

[dibyendra]

Everyone has bittersweet stories inside --
the unspoken stories of their own life.
Only few of them are revealed,
while many other stories remain buried inside
-- forever concealed.

There are unexpressed feelings inside everyone,
which rush inside, provoking different emotions.
Only some express them in their own voice,
while many other hesitatingly masquerade.

Everyone has torments inside,
which howl breaking the inner silence.
Only some let them out as a gesture on their face,
while many other tolerate not to reveal their weakness.

Everyone has bizarre questions, intriguing on their mind.
Inside, there are answers, maybe camouflaged.
Only some reach inside and let them out,
while many other remain bewildered, all their life.

There is a territory of tranquility inside everyone,
although obscured, possibly by the turmoil within.
Only some wise persons battle and conquer it easily,
while many naive persons fall into a pit of misery.

Everyone has an animal inside --
the roaring untamed being,
always trying to get itself free.
Only some admit openly,
while many other fake as if it doesn't exist!

[Pendragon]

This Life

Watching this life, burning too fast
to meet its end, like a burning string,
melting the wax of the candle.
Life seems like a playback of movies,
created by the God, projected on the silver screen.
What if we exist, but only inside the maze of dreams,
and what if the death is a plan of the God
just to wake the beings from their dreams?

I found this one to be very stimulating...

[dibyendra]

I found this one to be very stimulating...

Thanks Pen! Glad to hear that you found it stimulating.

Here is another one with the similar title, which I had written last year:

This Life - 1

This life is all about rising and falling,
running through the terrains
of surreal moments, and clinging
on hopes and fears to face
the vicissitudes that leave traces,
and just like the scars, that creeps,
screams, revisit one's dreams,
and sometimes mesmerize
to gesticulate toward the labyrinth
of enigmatic and freakish dreams.

[wangyiwoai]

【Bopomofo】
cheng shang gui shi wan ，ting qian su chu wei 。yue ming wu ye shu ，shuang hua you feng zhi 。
ti se ji hou yan ，fei di dong chi chui 。hua tang ying wu niao ，leng nuan bu xiang zhi 。

【English】
City on the return when the late, pre-trial accommodation at risk. Yue-Ming No Stella, frost wind sticks slip.
Shibuya laryngopharynx hunger cry, flying low-frozen vertical fin. Art Hall parrot birds, well-being is not knowing each other.


English, the translation was not very good
【汉语】

乌夜啼

白居易

城上归时晚，庭前宿处危。月明无叶树，霜滑有风枝。
啼涩饥喉咽，飞低冻翅垂。画堂鹦鹉鸟，冷暖不相知

Profiles:
Po Chu-i (772 ~ 846) was born in Tang Daizong large calendar for seven years, and died in six years, Hui-chang Wu-Tsung. Word Lotte, late, No. Xiangshan Jushi, Han, Henan Xinzheng people, is China's prestigious literary history and far-reaching influence of the Tang Dynasty poets and writers, the "poetry Magic" and "Poetry King," said his poetry in the China, Japan and North Korea state-wide implications, and Yuan Zhen co-sponsored the "New Yuefu Movement", the Bank called "meta-white." Po Chu-i native of Shanxi, Taiyuan, their great-grandfather moved to the next Gui (sound guī) (Wei River in Shaanxi this year north-south), whose grandfather moved to another white-huang Xinzheng, Henan. Ta-li Tang Daizong first month in seven years, 20 (AD 772 2 28), Po Chu-west in the dongguo Xinzheng HongNing crystal crafts factory (now dongguo Temple) was born. Po Chu-long residence in Luoyang, in his later years, Xiangshan, number "Xiangshan lay." Takemune Huichang six years (AD 846) in August, Bai Ju-yi died in Luoyang, Luoyang Xiangshan buried at the age of 75 years of age. After his death, the Tang Emperor Xuanzong LI Chen poems mourning He said: "infix Yu Lian-sixties, who taught Ming Lu for Shixian? Clouds not using Ming Ju Yi, good luck words Lotte inaction. Boy Xie Yin," Chang Hen "Qu Hu children can sing the "Pipa" chapter. the article is full pedestrian ears, once Siqing a sorrowful. "forward" Pak Changqing series "71 volumes.
Po Chu-Prince in his later years rose to the rank Shaofu, Posthumous "culture", World Bank, said Bai Fu, white wengong. In the literature advocates a new verse movement, advocated "the article from time to time together as a book, song and poetry together for things to make," wrote a lot of sighs when the world, reflecting the people's weal and woe of the poem, influential on later, is China's literature in the history of a very important poet. Hanlin yuan and time served as bachelor, left Chancery doctor, due to offend elite, dismissing it as Jiangzhou Sima, in his later years a good Buddhist. A lot of his life writing poetry, to satirize the most famous poems, language easy to understand, known as the "old woman who can answer it." Narrative poem "Pipa", "Everlasting Regret" and other extremely famous.
Deng Chaudat said: "It is because white Lotte's poem old woman who can answer it, before setting his poetry's position in the hearts of the people."
Po Chu-i's poem circulated widely at the time of subjects, from the palace down to the people, everywhere, its fame is also widely known in Xinjiang and North Korea and Japan. Chenin enormous influence on later literature, the late Tang Pi Rixiu, Albert Wu Song Lu and Qing Dynasty, Huang Zun-xian, etc., are subject to Po Chu-i's poem inspiration. Po Chu-poetry in Japan, the greatest impact, he is Japan's most favorite of the Tang Dynasty poet, classical novels in Japan, often see references to his poetry can be said that the hearts of the Japanese Bai Ju-yi is the Chinese Tang Dynasty Poems Person of the Year.
Liu Yuxi in his later years with friendly, said Liu Bai, advocating the lyrics of the role played by the United States barbed allegory. Its most distinctive words to the wind Geming Li's strong suits, as the later poet revered.
Bai Ju-yi's major works are: "Everlasting Regret" "Pipa", "fu was farewell to the ancient indigenous grass" "Spring Lake Qiantang OK" "Mu Jiang Yin" "Yi Jiangnan" "Great Monastery Peach Blossom," "drunk with Li Yi-yuan 11 9 "" Straight executive secretariat "" Yearning "," title Yueyang, "" watching Kariya Mai "" Palace of the word "" asked Liu 19 "" buy flowers, "" self-resistance of Henan off by the chaotic discrete-hungry brothers in one place for each Wang "
Po Chu-early enthusiastic save the world, emphasizing the political function of poetry, and seeks to popular, the "New Folk Songs and Ballads", "Qin Yin," A total of 60, and are done, "the only song Shengmin disease", "sentence must make rules", and Du Fu "three clerks" and "three other" with the well-known of epic poetry. A long narrative poem "Song of Everlasting Sorrow", "Pipa" represents the crowning achievement of his art. Middle-aged by a setback in official circles, "a long official career since then do not mind, things from now on I do not say", but still wrote a lot of good poetry, has done a lot of good for the people of Hangzhou West Lake has Retention commemorate his Shiratsutsumi . Always focussed on landscapes in his later years, also wrote a number of small words. Zeng Liu Yuxi's poem that goes: "The Old Song Lyric Writing jun break to listen, to listen to the new term" willow leaves "," This shows he had a number of new words from the degree. The "Claustrophobia" one, rather hazy beauty.