This is a try to use western music instrument to perform Beijing Opera style song. The lyrics are in Chinese characters with English translation below.
Johnson Gao
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Swallow's Love
Johnson Gao
Today is February 6, 2022, the sixth day of the first lunar month. I wrote this seven by eight word poem as a feedback to several poems written by a netizen last year for my "Melody of the Arrow and the Song".
A pair of swallow is building a nest under the eaves near the dis-repaired gutter.
They are flying around carried with mud and hay.
I asked swallows why you are prejudice to select that house,
Which looks like a broken temple?
(Swallow chirps back to me, although its philosophy is not deep, the artistic conception is high :)
Skyscrapers look splendid;
However, its glass is slippy and it catches fierce wind all around.
The shiny and magnificent halls are difficult to build a nest;
How could we waste spring time for nursing our chicks?