About the past

Evening Boredom

Leisure time with no plans to ward off a bit of sorrow.
Just picked up a book of poetry and read several.
In front of the lamp, hard for a single shadow to laugh.
Don't think about the past so not to crease your brow.

[This is the second of her series written for the poetry club.]

jun (handsome/pretty in appearance; brilliant mind) - died in March 1993 at the age of 83, inferred born in 1910.

Yishanbao

We came to this beautiful place by happenstance.
Accompanying us, such nice mountains and waters.
High peaks and dense forest covered in light fog,
Winding streams, loping bridges, locked up by twilight smoke.
Brilliant architecture makes the buildings pretty.
Refined hotelier well-read and sophisticated.
Talk about what happened forty years ago,
Pointing out the very jade-colored hot spring.

I went with my colleagues, it was better than we expected. We stayed in a hotel. The owner and his family are all well-educated and graduates of famous schools. It's unique to have interaction with the hoteliers.

The hotel was built into the mountain.

Forty years ago, Governor Cen, who had received Taiwan from the Japanese, visited this place and this owner remembered him. They talked about the past forty year's events. The owner told them Governor Cen especially liked the hot springs, iron-laden.