沧洲老树生几秋,干如墨龙根紫虬。
雨水摧激势突兀,夭矫出饮沧江流。
危不见持颠不扶,萧萧生意令人愁。
岂无耕夫与过客,暂时憇尔行则休。
西风八月海水飞,枯槎昔曾凌斗牛。
恐尔漂零未终极,挂帆欲去仍回头。
沧洲老树生几秋,干如墨龙根紫虬。
雨水摧激势突兀,夭矫出饮沧江流。
危不见持颠不扶,萧萧生意令人愁。
岂无耕夫与过客,暂时憇尔行则休。
西风八月海水飞,枯槎昔曾凌斗牛。
恐尔漂零未终极,挂帆欲去仍回头。
水边沙洲上的老树生长了多少个秋天?树干如墨色的龙,树根像紫色的虬龙盘曲。
雨水冲刷摧折,使它姿态突兀耸立,屈曲着身子仿佛要探出饮用沧江的流水。
危难时不见有人扶持,倾倒时不见有人搀扶,这萧索的生机令人忧愁。
难道没有农夫和过路的人吗?也只是暂时在你这里歇息,然后便离开。
八月西风起时海水翻腾,这枯木的残枝昔日曾高及斗牛星宿。
我担心你漂泊的命运还未终结,挂起船帆想要离去,却仍忍不住回头张望。
How many autumns has this old tree by the isle stood? / Its trunk like an ink dragon, roots purple, coiled in wood.
Beaten by rain, its posture juts abrupt and stark, / Writhing out to drink from the river, dark.
In peril, none to hold; toppled, none to aid, / Its lonely, withering life leaves one dismayed.
Are there no ploughmen or wayfarers who pass by, / To rest awhile beneath, then onward fly?
The west wind in eighth month makes sea waters soar, / This withered trunk once touched the Dipper's floor.
I fear your drifting has not reached its final state; / I set my sail to leave, yet turn back, contemplate.
古树形态是时间周期留下的自然印记
描绘沧洲老树虬根盘曲的古老姿态,蕴含时光沧桑
本诗为七言古诗,押平声韵。
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