Lingyun's Poems

"Lingyun Poems" is a collection of personal poems, including more than 1,300 poems written by the author between 2011 and 2014, covering various genres such as ancient poetry, lyrics, free verse, prose poetry and folk songs. The author was born in a farm family and joined the army as a young man. After he retired from the army, he worked various jobs to make a living and never stopped writing. "Lingyun Poetry" is both a pen name and a creative ambition - living at the bottom but having a high heart, using poetry to carry thousands of inner words. The whole collection has a wide range of themes: life sentiments describe the hardships of work and the ups and downs of life; military sentiments record the passion and loyalty of the military camp; homesickness tells the story of the wanderer's deep longing for his hometown and family; landscape travel notes depict the majesty and variety of the mountains and rivers of the motherland; poems about objects express the ideal of personality with bamboos, plums, eagles and cows; history It chants and comments on ancient and modern figures, and uses the past to learn from the present. Particularly valuable is the collection of 26 Tujia people's wedding songs and gate-blocking songs, which leave a living text for the folk wedding custom culture that is on the verge of being lost. There are also love poems, social criticism, philosophical insights, etc. The wide range of themes is quite rare in contemporary personal poetry collections. The art is informal, putting the expression of ideas first, the language is simple and sincere, and the emotions are magnanimous and strong, forming a unique style of "ancient style as the core and vernacular as the expression". The value of this collection of poems lies not only in literature, but also in the imprint of the times it records: the spiritual world of a grassroots struggler who persists in his ideals despite material scarcity, all living beings in the transformation period of Chinese society, and the precious memories of the traditional culture of ethnic minorities. "There are many threads in life, and the trickling streams merge into a river." More than 1,300 poems are more than 1,300 trickling streams, which merge into a river of poetry belonging to ordinary people.