If I'm boiling water,
You are tea.
Then your scent is gloomy.
Must rely on my tasteless
Let your dry and soft.
Spread out inside me.
Let my infiltration stretch your face
I must be hot, even boiling.
Compatible with each other
We have to hide.
Struggle and entangle in the water
Yizhancha kungfu
We just decided to be a color.
No matter how big the ups and downs, you can't control them.
You'll take your time eventually.
(Oh, gently)
Autumn, gathered in my deepest place.
At that time, your most bitter tears.
Will be my sweetest sip of tea.
Love poem of tea: it is an allegorical love poem, which expresses love by chanting things. Poets compare themselves to boiling water, and lovers to tea. The process of making tea is the process of love between water and tea, and it is also the process of tenderness between two lovers.
In the poem, love is dependent and compatible, lingering and bitter with sweet love. As long as readers carefully taste a product, it is not difficult to understand the taste. What is worth noting is the way this poem is written.
The first thing is to be good at discovering the essential connection between two unrelated things. For example, the grass is associated with the lover's green skirt, the plum blossom is associated with noble quality, and the safflower of kapok sighs with love. Just like this poem, the combination of tea and water is linked with the combination of love. This kind of observation and discovery often goes against our familiar life experience, which requires us to change the conventional way of thinking, so as to jump out of the shackles of things, find the organic connection point with the soul in various subtle relationships, and produce a leap in creation.
Of course, observation and discovery alone are not enough, but also the input of "I" (not only emotional input, but also formal input). Take Love Poems of Tea as an example. The poet does not simply describe my relationship with tea, but puts himself in things, materializes himself into water, and then personifies tea and water. In this way, I am in the water, and the water is me. The dialogue between water and tea is not only a dialogue between poets and lovers, but also a dialogue between poetry and readers, which builds the spread of poetry on a multi-level relationship and expands the internal expressive force of poetry.
This poem has many subtleties, such as allegorical skills and the use of musical metaphors. But fundamentally, it focuses on the above two points: discovery and investment.
(Selected from Selected Love Poems in Taiwan Province Province edited by Chen Shi)