Cold

On a snowy stormy night

1. 
Cold night rain snow blowing blustery eve
Happen upon a sorrowful person who cannot dream
The past is water, long flowed by
How can you bear tracing back your old feelings?

2. 
A person's feelings actually deceive one's self
Young spring's short stay is hard to grasp
In the blink of an eye time leaps away
Cannot know when you'll again return to old dreams

- young spring is a metaphor for youth 


Year's end

This year end has come,
Outside person so far away.
Head board gold already gone,
Case bottom sword now gray.
Rain drizzling very cold spring,
Way long road muddy loam.
When'll land have order, peace?
Ragged clothes yet think: home.  

- outside person is the one at war or at work or a student, anyone who has left home
- head board is where Chinese traditionally kept money (like 'under the mattress')
- the usual saying is: when your clothes are nice, you think of going home