In the Spring, Another Side of the Wind      

This spring doesn’t  belong to anyone

This spring only belongs to itself

I have seen the clouds rolling at the horizon

Yet haven’t heard the thunder that I have long expected

The spring heart has already been bright

Though I haven’t stepped out of my home for quite a few days

The time-space dimensions have been infinitely explained

Nobody hopes that he would be the chosen one

People get in and out

With temperature, name, address, telephone number and ID number

Stare at the original privacy points of eating, drinking and excreting

And turn the romantic wind, flower, snow and moon into fuel, rice, cooking oil and salt. There is some kind of solitude and terror

In everyone’s heart there is a hard core

The invisible virus is peeping all beauties

Alienation and indifference are imposing

After having experienced many things, we begin to believe in gods

Of the heaven, the earth, fire and thunder

Should we be soft rather than steady?

We can neither avoid the question nor answer it directly

However, the whole city calms down

Including the gray zones of the rural-urban continuum

We hear the voice in the radio that has been lost for tens of years

Where the sunshine can reach

A kind of red gene is saluting to the distance

The spring is always bright

While people growing in the spring have to be worn

What is important is to bear, insist and wait

And to endure and survive by the side of life

Finally we leave the February behind

“The most difficult to deal with is the spring coldness”

（Tr. by Bei Ta）

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Zhao Jianhua, member of the Chinese Writers Association, member of the National Committee of the Inner Mongolia Writers Association, vice chairman of the Baotou Literary Volunteers Association, vice chairman of the Baotou Poetry Society, academician of the Baotou CPPCC Literature and Art Academy, a first-level writer, the first signed writer of the Inner Mongolia Writers Association. Poet living in Baotou Vocational and Technical College. Executive editor of "Yoyou Poetry Magazine". Won the first prize of national metallurgical literature, the fourth and ninth "Suolongga" literary awards of Inner Mongolia, the "Five One Project Award" of Inner Mongolia, and was awarded the title of "Shuangxin of Virtue and Art" in Inner Mongolia. He was invited to Israel, Malaysia, Peru, Czech Republic, Mongolia, India and other countries to participate in the World Poets Conference and Romania International Poetry Festival, and won the 36th World Poet Conference Annual Chinese Poetry Creation Award held in Prague, Czech Republic. Some poems were translated and introduced abroad. Published 9 collections of personal poems.

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