Stepping Into The Old Age Poem by Luo Zhihai

步入老邁

何曾想到，紅顏已褪風流衰減
此刻歸來，白髮初生壯志未酬
霧隱山蒼，道境塵心超然過往
煙藏水淼，萍蹤浪跡隨俗沉浮
　　
注：第一四句羅志海作，第二三句貓頭鷹作。


Stepping Into The Old Age

Never thought that the beauty has faded
the romance is fading
Come back at this moment
white hair is born
have my wish frustrated

The fog conceals and the mountains are green
the mind of Tao is detached from the past
The smoke hides and the water is vast
follow the crowd without personal principles
floating about free as duckweed

Note: first and fourth sentences by Luo Zhihai.
Second and third sentences by Maotouying.

12/16/2019格律體新詩 ● 十二絕 羅志海譯
Metric New Poetry ● Twelve Words of Quatrain
Translation by Luo Zhihai
第9208首對聯體詩
The 9,208th Two Pairs of Couplets