Buckwheat Flowers Blooming 荞麦花开 Poem by Sophy Chen

Sophy Chen

Sophy Chen

Lueyang County, Hanzhong City, Shaanxi Province of China.

Buckwheat Flowers Blooming 荞麦花开

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[China] Sophy Chen

Buckwheat Flowers Blooming

The autumn sky is clean and air is crisp. Looking upward
In a bay of overwhelming terraces
Butterflies are one after another, buckwheat flowers flourishing
And swarms of bees humming among the flowers

Bees and butterflies make the sea of flowers
Nature gives it the endless fragrance

If you want to take a nap in the afternoon, go to the flowers
Lie on your back, and let your small partners call you a great many times
Yet can not find you, then you just do your immortal sweet dreams

At the moment, if the time were back
I would take my poetry at the bottom of my heart
Start in an early morning of September
Go back to the depths of flowers, with butterflies flying
Bees humming and buckwheat fragrance bathing

My father says it’s been returning farmlands to forests
In the buckwheat flowers blooming season it’s a sea of boundless woodlands
After the soughing of the wind in the pine trees, a stream of rosin hit
Looking upward, on mountain tops it’s mist-shrouded

2013-2-27 Guangzhou, China

Translated by Poetess, Sophy Chen 2015-03-01


[中国] 苏菲
荞麦花开


秋高气爽,仰头望去
一湾压倒式的梯田
彩蝶纷纷,荞麦花开的正浓
成群的蜜蜂在花间低吟

蜜蜂和彩蝶铸成的花海
自然赋予它无尽的芬芳

午后若想打个小盹,去花海吧
仰面躺下,小伙伴千呼万唤
也寻你不着,甜甜的做神仙美梦

此时,时光如若重返
我便携了心底的诗行
在九月的清晨出发
回到花海深处,彩蝶曼舞
蜜蜂低唱,沐浴荞麦芬芳

爸爸说现在退耕还林了
荞麦花开时节是无边的林海
一阵松涛脆响,一股松香袭来
仰头望去,山尖上云雾缭绕

2013-2-27 中国广州

Buckwheat Flowers Blooming 荞麦花开
Saturday, April 25, 2015
Topic(s) of this poem: nature
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
this ia my childhood story
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Yiliasi King 23 March 2016

When I read your poem, there's a picture that buckwheat flowers was blooming. Vivid memories came flooding back that my mum told me when she was young, she had a really hard time living in Shaanxi province.At that time, the best food was buckwheat.I'm really appreciated we live a better life now. really nice poem, best wishes.

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Sophy Chen 23 March 2016

Thanks Yiliasi, What i wrote was in my childhood, but now days we cannot meet this flower in countryside because most pieces of lands are planted trees now. Thanks for your apprecaite.

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Dutendra Chamling 21 October 2015

When someone read this poem, s/he feels that Buckwheat Flowers are Blooming, It's really wonderful poem.

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Sophy Chen 18 November 2015

thanks Dutendra, i will keep writng! Sophy

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Denis Mair 12 September 2015

Hooray for buckwheat- it is a good, wholesome food crop! When I travelled to Xichang, Sichuan in August I enjoyed buckwheat muffins. You are lucky to have seen and smelled its flowers. I only enjoy it as food, but I never saw it in flower.. .

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Sophy Chen 12 September 2015

My great poet and translator Denis Mair, It's really a good, wholesome food crop, but it grows in deep mountains. My hometown is located in big mountains. When i was a little girl i could enjoy its beautiful flowers in every fall and had its food in noodles. My mother can cook it so well. If one day we met in China i can cook it for you and it's tasted so well and also good for health.

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Lueyang County, Hanzhong City, Shaanxi Province of China.
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