Read Gao Lingyun's prose poems
Author | Feng Enchang
Mr. Gao Lingyun is a female cadre, in a busy leadership position, still enthusiastic about literary creation, following the publication of the collection of nostalgic essays "Xishan Night Language", during the period of serving as the mayor and secretary of Liushan Town in this county, he insisted on amateur creation. In the eyes of many people, this is a difficult thing to do, but she has done a good job, incorporating culture into her work, holding exhibitions of literary works in the town station, publishing albums of works, and making the work of the center more active. She herself did not have time to write long works, so she took the time to write short poems, prose poems, small essays, and the Hainan Publishing House published the book "Looking at the Moon", nearly 200 pages. Most of the poems written are philosophy poems of life, experiencing the depth of life, the level of writing is very high, and people are deeply inspired after reading them. Writing this book also left a deep sense of life: "Looking at the moon is a poem, reading is like tasting tea, the heart is like fireworks, life is a journey."
"Looking at the Moon" is a collection of prose poems, and the last time I wrote a review, there was a one-sided understanding, thinking that it was all philosophical poetry. In fact, she said very clearly in the "Self-Introduction": "Even in the middle of the night, the moon is silent, and the impetuous heart gradually returns to peace." Therefore, lay out a blank piece of paper, or go into the network world, simply record a few daily trifles, and frankly express some feelings." When she says "non-literary and non-poetic", she is actually prose poetry. In July 1985, the National Prose and Poetry Society held an annual meeting in Harbin, I went to participate, met more than a hundred famous poets in the country, the great poet Ai Qing met, the meeting exchanged experience in writing prose poetry, President Ke Lan introduced the situation of writing prose poetry in the country, and recommended a part of the prose poems for me to be published in the national "Prose Poetry Newspaper". Therefore, I have some understanding of prose poetry, and in 1991, Shandong Literature and Art Publishing House published a monograph on prose poetry entitled "Colorful Nostalgia", and published "Selected Poems of Xiaoyuan" with half a page of selected prose poems.
Unexpectedly, in the Spring Festival of 2016, the poet Friend Gao Lingyun came to my house to present an extremely valuable gift, "Looking at the Moon". I was shocked when I first read it, and Gao Lingyun, who was busy day and night with a heavy responsibility, came out with a book so quickly, and it was a new genre of prose poetry. In her Self-Introduction, I found the answer: "Busyness and sweat, stress and hardship, fill every page of the calendar." The leisure of the past, including an obsession with books and words, is no longer in time. "When I was writing, I seemed to see a young woman, busy with a day's work, under the blue sky and bright moon, walking alone to the streets and fields, as if thinking about the smoke and clouds of life, picking up what she had realized, returning to the dormitory, recording it, and collecting a book in a year or two, her dream was actually realized, and she promised the vow of "work does not forget to create". This spirit of loving literary creation is a new turning point in life, another piece of hard work, bound to obtain another life achievement, destined for a person's old age is beautiful and happy.
The collection of poems "Looking at the Moon" contains 183 prose poems, which are divided into four parts: "Wangyue is a Poem", "Reading Like Tea", "Heart is Like Fireworks", and "Life is a Journey". Although the poem is short, the meaning is deep, and the weight is very heavy. As the opening paragraph says: "I am a grass on the shore of The Lake of Juryue Lake... I quietly looked up at the bright moon in the sky... Mingyue was speechless, but like an eternal confidant. At the beginning, I wrote my own concept of life, I am an ordinary person, I am a grass, she looks at the moon without words, but like an eternal confidant, I think "like" should be changed to "yes", because the bright moon is clean and innocent is unchanged, and looking at the moon is the same person as the moon.
Gao Lingyun's prose poems. There are new life discoveries, very thoughtful, and she is also one of the pioneers of writing prose poetry in my county. The philosophy of the poem is not mentioned this time, focus on lyricism. Her prose poems are short, but the first one is full of passion, each sentence has a deep meaning, and the one that expresses the theme of "Looking at the Moon" is well written:
full moon
Looking at the Moon is a beautiful dance
Looking at the Moon is a melodious song
Looking at the Moon is a poem that is depressed
Looking at the moon is a word for a flat and flat person
Looking at the moon is a drunken drink
Looking at the moon is a bittersweet acacia
Gao Lingyun's writing of prose poems is a good beginning for young poets in my county, don't think that three words and two words are easy to write, but make some practical efforts and do some profound discussions. Gao Lingyun's prose poems still put a lot of effort, without the experience of doing leadership, without the true feelings of life, and could not write such a high level of prose poems. I hope she goes to the next level and writes better and better.
2022.4.11
Feng Enchang was born in 1937 in Linqu, Shandong. He once served as the deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the county party committee and the chairman of the Literary Association, a member of the Chinese Writers Association, a member of the Chinese Folk Artists Association, a director of the Shandong Prose Literature Association, a standing director of the China Vernacular Poets Association, a famous poet and writer of the National Pastoral School, a representative of the "Rural Small Courtyard School", and was known as the god of Oriental poetry. His works have won many awards at home and abroad, and have won the honorary title of lifetime achievement of the highest award of folk literature in the Asia-Pacific region, "Golden Flying Eagle Award", and have been named the title of world cultural celebrity and national first-class artist, the inheritor of the legend of Feng Weimin, and has published 23 literary monographs, "Sugar Gourd" and "Hometown Cicada Song", which have been selected to read textbooks in full-time middle schools nationwide.