1 "Hometown"
Written by Yu Yu
Leisure
疼
I don't know where to go when I'm busy
In the first Rakshasa Sea Poetry Contest with the same title, this poem stood out and won the first place. About this poem of Youyou, a literary friend asked me at that time, and I understood it like this: When we are idle and meditating, we always think of the past, our hometown, our childhood, and our mother, and we often feel a heart-wrenching pain, and when we are tired of work, busy with socializing, and running around for life, we will temporarily forget this pain!
2 "Hometown"
Text/Shi Yun
The hometown is so small
It's so small that it can only be served
Two words
This poem by Shi Yun, a reporter from Yunnan Province's "Qujing Daily", won a 100,000 grand prize, which can be described as "one word and ten thousand gold". Although some netizens think: "This can't be considered poetry". However, the poem is "short and full of connotation, giving people room for imagination" is widely recognized. What is the blank space of the "two words"? childhood, mother, river, cooking smoke, mountain or lover...... You can fill in the blanks!
To express the grand theme of "hometown" in miniature poems, you must grasp the pain points and summarize them highly. Both of these poems are excellently performed, one is 10 words and the other is 13 words, but they can be concise and rich, and the aftertaste is endless.
Nostalgia is a big concept, the key point is hometown, empty and specific, no one can say clearly, so the best way is to give it to the reader, let them combine their own feelings and experiences, to deduce, to understand.
The two poems have their own merits, the former wins with love, and the latter wins with reason. Whichever poem you prefer, you get a perfect score.
Author: Hua Ling, formerly known as Liang Chenghao, male, Han nationality, born in 1974, from Wolong District, Nanyang City, Henan Province. He is a contemporary Chinese avant-garde poet, a cutting-edge writer, and a columnist of the Reading Sleep Poetry Society. He is now a local village doctor. The first collection of poems, Love Songs and Lamentations, was successfully published in Henan Zhongzhou Ancient Books Publishing House in April 2015, and won the silver medal of the third New Poet Award held by the Chinese Poetry Society in Beijing in June of that year, and the bronze medal of the second Red Sorghum PEN Club in Qingdao in August. The second collection of poems, "Beauty Snake", is also being planned for publication.