Autumnal poems

Sentiments during an Autumn Storm

Misty rain often wets the steps drip drop,
A pond of dying lilies, the most withered and dry.
Autumn fades, winter comes, spring will follow,
Seasons pass, people age without a trace.  

Deep Autumn Feelings

Startled at the recurrence of first-heavenly seventh-earthly*,
At the corner of the sea, the autumn wind returns.
The pale moon appears bright and clean,
Everywhere the moonlight shines the same.
My hometown neighborhood a land of lakes,
Old country bereft and poor allover.
Gold Tall-building** cloud of war,
Spring Territory** cannon fire red.
Rivers mountains*** a hundred-thousand miles,
All under the same one light.

We had heard news from mainland China, but didn't know whether to believe it or not. Regardless, the rumors of war stirred up my emotions about my hometown.

*each year has one of ten heavenly and one of twelve earthly ordinals, making a full cycle of sixty. Labeling this year, we know it had been sixty years since (around 1954) of Taiwan's ceded to Japan (1895).
**The first characters of towns in Fujian province
***River-mountain means a territory, an area