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| Original Title | 雨情民謡百篇 |
|---|---|
| Author | 野口 雨情 |
| Genre | Children's Literature |
| Author Type | Male Author |
| Summary | This collection weaves fleeting moments of rural life into a tapestry of raw emotion and quiet beauty. Through vivid snapshots of nature and human connection, it captures scarlet dragonflies perched on well buckets, laborers chanting under the sun’s glare, and moonlit fields where soil whispers secrets. Each poem pulses with longing—for distant homelands shrouded in shadow, for love as transient as cherry blossoms, and for bonds as fragile as wilting green onions. Voices echo across marshes and mountains: sparrows flit through bamboo groves, frogs croak beneath pondweed, and cormorants return to rocky shores at dusk. There are tears for unanswerable mysteries, laughter in call-and-response work songs, and the ache of seasons turning. From stormy nights to dawn’s first star, these verses breathe life into forgotten corners of existence, inviting readers to wander paths where fireflies yearn and rivers carry both sorrow and hope. A mosaic of heartbeats under open skies, this anthology is an ode to the ephemeral—and the eternal—in the ordinary. |
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