Seven-words Poem "The Coronavirus Spring"

何威廉

Seven-words Poem

The Coronavirus Spring

By William He

The sycamores with gloom when the spring breeze hides,

With the lapse of time the world is leaving it's own scar.

Metropolis is fragile like a piece of glass at the moment,

The outlandish lockdown buzzing against the sullen cars.

Not only can the solicitude not go beyond the room walls,

Animals also swing to and fro in the vines on one's head.

The equinox is circling the life beyond the egoistic mind,

A mood of melancholy descending on plum blossom here.

七律

春日疫情

作者：何威廉

桐叶引声随冷暖，

山魈解语恼青坛。

眼前红绿信千巷，

车尾横斜困栅栏。

羁厄晴窗人色浅，

禳瘟漏夜梦魂寒。

春分误后清明误，

惆怅梅花落几般。

Notes:

“Scar": "Leave a Scar", the third track on Marilyn Manson's 2009 studio album The High End of Low. Writer: Marilyn Manson, Composers: Twiggy and Chris Vrenna. Lyric: "There's a crack in my soul, you thought was a smile, whatever doesn't kill you, is gonna leave a scar".

“Lockdown”: The Chinese city of Shenzhen, the nation's tech hub, went into a week-long lockdown intended to slow an outbreak of COVID-19, and sent the world's tech-dependent industries into a whirlwind of worry about the impact on supply chains.

"Equinox": The Spring Equinox, or Chunfen in Chinese, is the fourth solar term of the Chinese lunar calendar. The Equinox signals the equal length of the day and night time. After the equinox, the sun moves northwards, resulting in gradually longer day time in the Northern Hemisphere and longer night in the Southern Hemisphere.

何威廉

Not only can the solicitude not go beyond the room walls,
Animals also swing to and fro in the vines on one's head.