Bai Juyi's Flower Poems and Their Translation

Flowers are not flowers.

Bai Juyi

Flowers are not flowers, fog is not fog, come at midnight and go at dawn.

When did a short and beautiful spring dream come? When they leave, they are like clouds in the morning.

[translation]

It is a flower, but it is not a flower; It's fog, yes, but it's not fog. In the middle of the night, it came quietly from the darkness, and at dawn, it floated away in the morning light.

It comes, like a spring dream, intoxicating, but it can accompany you for a few hours? It's gone, like a fascinating cloud, in a blink of an eye, I don't know where to go.