My Mother’s Spinning Wheel

My nursery rhymes

Highlighted mum’s local accent

Beat-up old spinning wheel

And dim light

Hard-working silhouette

Spinning wheel kept turning

Witnessing sunset and bright moon

Seeing golden rape seed flower

Experiencing winter wheat

Marking snow outside the window

Recording the passing horse galloping

And the alighting cotton velvet

Carrying her deep love

Reflecting rural warmth and poverty

Blurring her vision full of bitterness

Mom spun life and me

Leaving me childhood memories

Constantly stimulating and blazing

After long waiting

I went to the far south

Repaying the Silk Road

And recalling rural love and affection

Mum’s spinning wheel

Like an old phonograph

Composing Spinning Goddess Huang Daopo

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Ku Li (original name: Zhang Zhenglin), Member of Sichuan Writers Association, Chinese Poetry Association, one of the Chinese Poetry First Batch of Contracted Writers, has some works published in multiple domestic poetry networks, writers networks, newspapers, periodicals and magazines including Star Poetry Journal, Poetry Tide Journal, the Yangtze River Poetry Journal, Poetry Monthly, Poem China and Chinese Poets Newspaper and repeatedly won national poetry contest awards, included into annual poetry selections. He has been invited to Chinese Poetry Tour. He has published poem collections of Misunderstood Woman and Wind Blowing.

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