Looking at flowers

By the river alone walking looking for flowers by Du Pu

The Huang's Number Four aunt's house has paths full of flowers.
Thousands of--ten-thousands of--weights bent low.
Circling around, playful butterflies on and on dance.
Freely there, gentle larks tweet tweet sing.


Palace Garden Cherry Blossom Viewing Party 

This big party, looking at the cherry blossoms, wealth and luxury display.
Green eyes, golden hair, laughter and talking noise.
These old trees like a forest are still here,
The flowers on the branches are not from last year.

Sometime in the 1980s, the Japanese prime minister invited many foreign dignitaries to the Palace Garden to look at the cherry blossoms.