【Night Reading】There are thousands of knots in the heart, and the bottom of the pen is gushing with waves 丨 Yang Ping

I met Yang Zhichun a few years ago, but I read his poems in the 1980s. He was studying at The Gangjin Normal School and was a key member of the Midorishima Literary Society. Although we hadn't met at the time, I was quite familiar with his work, and after many years, when we met and talked, there was a feeling of knowing each other and hating each other.

Yang Zhichun is a person who cherishes love and righteousness. He was very devout and devoted to literary creation. For the revitalization and prosperity of his hometown literature, he united a group of literary friends in Baisha to run publications, make platforms, and organize various literary activities. To raise funds, donations are collected everywhere, sometimes out of their own pockets. I was very touched and admired by this spirit.

Yang Zhichun is a poet who is as tender as water and as warm as fire. In the Jiangjin poetry circle, he is not a newcomer, but a "veteran" who has written poetry for many years. Over the years, he has worked hard and created a considerable number of poems. This time, he selected his own poems into a collection and named it "Acacia Like Snow", which is not only a summary of his own creations over the years, but also a major harvest of our Jiangjin poetry circle.

The poetry collection "Acacia Like Snow" is divided into five parts: "Acacia Like Snow", "Spring, a Girl Who Smells Flowers", "Gardenia Blossoms", "Quietly Listening to the Rain Fall" and "Dreaming mountains and rivers", which include more than 230 poems by poets, who face the world in their own unique ways, dialogue with them, and explain and construct the world they understand. In the midst of a hearty reading, we gained a new enjoyment of poetry.

He wrote about the night: the heavens and the earth were powerless to resist the night / The past, and drunk a glass of wine into a mess; he wrote thoughts: Honey, you are not there / A cigarette burned the night / A bed was put to sleep during the day / The kitchen fireworks were gone / The house was empty; he wrote pain: What kind of pain / Worthy of midnight dreams / The sound of thousands of sounds / Tossing until dawn; he wrote time: time can be folded. Rodin said, "Art is ultimately emotion." "Touching people, no first affection." Lyricism is the essential feature of poetry, which is the expression of the heart and emotions. It can be said that the themes in "Lovesickness like Snow" are diverse, the emotions are rich, and love, family affection, nostalgia, etc. are full of them, which makes us feel that this collection of poems is heavy. Love is the eternal theme of mankind, and countless poets in ancient and modern China and abroad have sung the poems of love. Yang Zhichun is worthy of being an amorous boy, writing a lot of love poems, including many love poems in "Lovesickness Like Snow". At present, Jiangjin has three good writers of love poems. One is Shi Bao, one is RongZi, and the other is Yang Zhichun. The love poems written by the three of them have their own characteristics. Shi panders affectionately and warmly, Rong Zi is subtle and lingering, and Yang Zhichun is fresh and gentle.

Take a look at his love:

"October Love": Can't walk out of the black territory at night / The face can't swim through tears. Diao: I light a cigarette / You're in the fog / I drink a pot of wine / You're in my dreams. "I Say Love in a Hidden Way": I saw her choking / unable to say / Love / As my silence / love / unspeakable ... These poems, the feelings are naturally sincere, unpretentious, not pretentious. The poet has always strived for an authenticity and simplicity. I admire that he has not been disturbed by such a poetic school of thought for so many years, and has always adhered to his own creative path.

In the poetry collection "Acacia Like Snow", the language is used easily and skillfully. This is not unrelated to his years of writing practice, and it is also a manifestation of his writing reaching a high level. He can make a poem beautiful and dynamic: the autumn wind blows the leaves of the sunset / You raise your face in circles, wave your hands / Churn down the rain / Red scarf floats up. He can make a poem clean and transparent, transparent and fragrant: something washed in water / how clean, a flower blooms transparently / the aroma is also transparent. He can make a poem as heavy as lead: it puts itself in the rain like the blood in its body / A lone wolf, destined to bear the vicissitudes of the heart / In the middle of the night, I see it coming to the valley / Whine... / It angrily leads to a long neck.

There are many good poems in "Acacia Like Snow", and there are many good sentences. For example, "The Girl of the Tea Mountain": there is always a touch that is bright / Such as this lake / It holds all the silence / The moon bends again / It can't bend a wound / The moon is round / It is not full of thoughts / When the wind rises / All the windows / All open to their hearts... These sentences can be seen everywhere, and they are picked up from the head. We have to marvel at the poet's witty sentences and applaud them.

Some of Yang Zhichun's poems are full of life insights and philosophical thoughts, which make us feel heavy and painful at the same time, but also give us deep thinking and enlightenment. Such as "Old Time", "Walking Behind the Clouds", "A Bird Stands on the Tip of a Tree", "See You In Thirty Years" and so on. For example, "Old Time": Sometimes, we miss a thing / Imagine a thing / Don't pay attention to the way forward, don't know the way back / In vain, we don't know the years. "Walking Behind the Clouds": I see the flowing water rushing sand and stones to touch the sand / I see flowers withstanding the wind and rain and loving the wind and rain. Some of Yang Zhichun's poems do not stop at the sighs of life, he uses them as a way of self-examination or self-redemption, such as "A Big Dream in the World": Only because of a big dream / Born of a dream / Died because of a dream. "Ask for a piece of moonlight to atone for my sins": I saw a shadow / groaning on the street lamp / Outstretched palm, asking for a piece of moonlight / To atone for its sins... These verses, only after experiencing a kind of tribulation, will be so unforgettable. Yang Zhichun's perception and philosophy, self-examination and self-redemption make his poems radiate a rational brilliance.

Yang Zhichun is undoubtedly a poet with compassion. Reading his poems is like loving and hating with him, exploring life themes such as life and death, clutching, compassion, and forgiveness with him. With his poetry as a companion, the journey of life will not be lonely and lonely.