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By the river I am looking for a gray horse(with an additional poem)

Li Yun

Its whole body should be gray, with octagonal hat and leggings

I only know this

The two pupils seem having gloss like fine coal, I only know the scorching and heavy eye language

Snort and roar rived the turbid wave, as if rock fell into the river

The hoof beats of running and leaping were so loud like waist drum

In the footprints, the fire out of the hit between rock and horseshoe

Proved the long light of the cave long ago, I only know, that a gray horse or a group of gray horses

Broke the lead-heavy curtain of sky by the shocking thunders

And awakened the dawn, the sky of that day also knew this


By the river laboriously I am looking for a gray horse

It is exactly the fire-stealer with gray coarse military uniform,

But now only the Yanhe River flows

Calling the horse, clapping the rock

Every time it is bloody and tearful

I could only do that

I and Yanhe River could only do that

Looking at the gentle wind, the swirling cloud

No pagoda could be higher than Baota Mountain's Pagoda

I don't know which pagoda could be higher than Baota Mountain's Pagoda

If a higher pagoda is going to be built

I would raise my hand to object it

In the name of a citizen


Baota Mountain is the memory, the symbol

Baota Mountain's pagoda has been the red imprint of several generations

No matter how high how great one boasts about himself

It would be much lower and humbler comparing with Baota Mountain

One could never be higher than Baota's height

Yes, Baota's altitude is not high

But no one could replace it

I don't know which pagoda could be higher than Baota Mountain's Pagoda

If a higher Pagoda is going to be built

Would people memory or revere it

Only the god knows

Luckily, from the inverted image

Which travels the upstream from the downstream of Yanhe River

Baota Mountain's Pagoda

Is still higher than that

So-called pagoda

Moonlight is always bright and clear


Li Yun: Male, member of Anhui Writers Association, chief editor of Poetry Monthly.