laitimes

Tan Jie: Persimmons are red| selected poems

Tan Jie: Persimmons are red| selected poems

Tan Jie, real name Tan Liangjie, born in 1967, his ancestral home is Chongqing, and he has lived in Fuzhou for a long time. He is a member of the Fujian Writers Association and the Chinese Poetry Society. He is the author of the poetry collection "Xing yin dadi" and "Persimmon red", and his works have been scattered in major paper media and public accounts such as "Shilin", "Selected Poems", "Fujian Literature", "Hebei Literature", "Quanzhou Literature" and so on.

The persimmons are red

Tan Jie

Draw the moonlight from the pot

In every pot

There is a cicada living in both

When the time comes

Knowing, knowingly singing

Most of the time

The pot is empty, waiting for you

Add little by little to the pot

Your white moonlight

The night kept spilling out of the pot

A pot of old Pu'er color

In front of the window, two shadows

You have a cup

I have a drink

2020.7.3

————————————————————

That old house

Sign your name

Press the big red seal

This time, there was the sadness of renunciation

When a later time

When present in places where they once lived

I didn't have the keys, later

I was just a guest

Only tap the doorbell

Hello, I'm so-and-so

I am so-and-so, a worldly passerby

Sometimes inside the door

Sometimes outside the door

Just so-and-so, so-and-so

The key, held in God's hand

2020.8.5

——————————————————

Tan Jie: Persimmons are red| selected poems

Photo by Gu Bei

We all live in a garden

Peanut is the name of a cat

We cooperate tacitly

Sometimes I write poems and it looks at quietly

Sometimes it learns bird song

I listened quietly and then wrote a poem

Read it to listen

We were all intoxicated

The plum trees began to dry up

The grapefruit turned yellow and fell off on its own

Ziwei is half leafless, half

And a little flower

The grass in front of the court is the most lush

I stand in the middle of them

Half ripe, half flowering

2020.9.17

———————————————————

I felt it

His body was red from head to toe

There was fire in the eyes

If you pass by me

Then pluck one

Pick the softest one

I'm already on fire

In front of you

I'm cooked

I was abducted by Jin Qiu

A soft persimmon

2020.9.22

daydream

The night is like a silenced instrument

I remember someone playing Mozart's Requiem

But I couldn't hear it, and there was the occasional sound of running water

It popped out of my left ear and suffocated me to death

I'm still alive, just pretending to be asleep

Let what you see during the day and what you have never seen enter into a dream

Several beautiful women, entered the room

Lit candles and ate cake, but they didn't

Sing a happy birthday song

Someone was patching up the lost tooth, more than one

They put glass glue on a few of the leaky ones

That would take thirty years

My white hair darkened with the night

Daydream, followed by the stars shining

2020.10.15

Tan Jie: Persimmons are red| selected poems

There is no day that cannot be covered

Wake up early every morning

The melons and fruits on the plate are not the old ones

The color is getting darker

Wood was taking a deep breath

There is an occasional clicking sound

They scream as the seasons change

Spiders make webs everywhere

Not only intercept moths and insects

Also intercepted my way

Against the wall

Touch the things that pass in front of my eyes

The body is emaciated

In front of a full-length mirror

One person can cover another person

His shyness

Can't stop the vast snow overhead

2020.11.4

Scare a train and run fast

Stretch yourself long

Like a train

The wind was blowing through the buildings

I shook violently

I don't know when this building swallowed me

Whether it will shake

Spit out a long train

Spit out so many people

When I became human

See so many people downstairs

Hand holding the camera

It's still shaking

2020.11.23

Tan Jie: Persimmons are red| selected poems

Thirty years old dormitory

Back to room 509

The original lock could not be found

The painted door is missing

The memory is covered by the door of the cheap industrial plate

The aisles are carpeted

The terrazzo staircase was replaced by marble

When I miss it fondly

Outline of the old dormitory

When I walked in

Still seen by me

The way we lived when we were teenagers

At that time, the building was so big

Bigger than our ideals, go out for many years

Only to leave it behind

Back here, this building is so small

Too small to bear

Run fast hairline

It's like countless snowfalls

Nor can it cover the years of old age

At the corner of the stairs on the ground floor

A girl once handed me a love letter

Thirty years later, I don't remember what she looked like

Every sentence of the love letter is vivid in the ear

A sentence "The sparrows of Dongting Lake, no matter how big the wind and waves, there are also times to stop"

Today, I stopped all the storms

That sparrow

You flew away

2020.11.27

————————————————

Sunlight shines into the body

On my face

The sun was so warm

I hid in silence

It's because

I was afraid to burn, from the scorching heat

Summer is coming

From the dry autumn

Coming from the cold winter

Weak body

The pain has just stopped

Let the sun shine through my body

My burning

Proceeding silently in a bush of flowers

2021.1.30

Tan Jie: Persimmons are red| selected poems

A drizzle falls gently

You're not around

The open book did not dare to close easily

They wait for you to come back

I'm also waiting

The bells of the middle of the night

From the silence

Tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock...

The sound is always worrying

Hope it

Slow down, slow down a little more

Let me hear you clearly in the distance

Your heart

Beating in tune with my heart

Day and night, hustle and bustle

It is on top of tiny floating dust

2021.3.21

Chasing the sun

Before that, I kept chasing

At that time, I didn't think to chase the sun

Because it is weak

It is very satisfying to have light

Now, I'm a little old

It became weak

I started chasing the sun

Begin not to be satisfied with the light

Don't care

The sun and moon are hanging high

I just want to be high in the sky

Overlooking the world

Interpret the vicissitudes of the past again

2021.4.30

Tan Jie: Persimmons are red| selected poems

"Persimmons Are Red", by Tan Jie, published by Straits Literature and Art Publishing House in January 2022

Read on