Summer nights in May
Chen Zhengcai
I didn't expect you when I charged,
I didn't expect you when the military trumpet was excited,
The enemy retreated, leaning against the trenches,
Look at the stars of May,
I just thought of you, I thought of you.
In front of your rose-colored window,
It is the locust flowers that are thankful, the jujube flowers are fragrant,
When the durian is red,
I can't be like yesterday.
Singing games with you.
If I'm not a soldier,
I will be in the jujube forest where the river is blowing,
With you look at the glow of the sun kissing the red branches,
In Pushkin's melancholy and affectionate whisper,
Intoxicate your pure and intoxicating arrogance.
But, I'm a soldier.
I'm going to fight, I'm going to hold on,
You can't even always be in the tenderness.
Entrust your thoughts to the wind,
Please play with the curved strings of the red water bank,
Out of your insomnia window
Sing a song of blessing.
1984.5 Jinping
[Originally published in Chen Zhengcai's poetry collection "Climbing Branches and Flowers, Yellow Oak Trees green", the fourth series of "Family Affection and Love". "Climbing Branches and Flowers, Yellow Oak Tree Green" was published by Beijing Unity Publishing House in March 2021. 】
["Climbing Branches and Flowers, Yellow Oak Tree Green" is composed of 4 series of "Southern Xinjiang Rongma", "Hometown Is Still Faint", "Rivers and Mountains Dream", and "Family Affection and Love". The poet takes his own magical and unique experience and profound and original thinking as the background, and indulges in his sincere love for the border pass, hometown, motherland, relatives and friends, and the red tradition. The connotation is wonderful and magnificent and real and touching, the style is magnificent and affectionate, and the text is fresh and timeless and poetic. Full of righteousness, overflowing with true feelings, singing and crying, it is worth reading. 】
Chen Zhengcai: Male, originally from Ba County, Chongqing, born in Xishui, Guizhou. He started his career in 1977. He joined the army in early March 1979 and successively served as a soldier reporter, a propaganda officer of the border defense regiment, a military sub-district, and a provincial military district, an editor of Border Defense Literature, a deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the Provincial Military District, a deputy director of the Political Department of a military sub-district, a political commissar of the Municipal People's Armed Forces Department, and a member of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee. Rank of Colonel. In 2004, he changed careers and served as deputy director of the office of the department, director of the publicity center of the department and chairman of the provincial forestry federation, editor-in-chief of Yunnan Forestry Magazine, and director of the Yunnan reporter station of China Green Times. He is retired. Novellas, poems, essays, reportage, literary criticism and other works have been scattered in newspapers and periodicals. There are awards, reviews, and collections. Published a collection of poems, "Climbing Branches and Flowers Red, Yellow Oak Tree Green". Member of the 7th Yunnan Provincial Federation of Literary and Art Circles. He is a member of Yunnan Writers Association. Judge of the First Border Defense Military Literature Award in Yunnan Province. He was selected into the Dictionary of Contemporary Chinese Young Writers and the Dictionary of Chinese Poets in the New Era.