“Traveling Thoughts” is a seven-character poem written by Cui Tu in the Tang Dynasty. The poem describes the ruthlessness of falling flowers and flowing water, what the poet saw when he went to Chu, the fact that there was no reply to the letters he sent back to his hometown from a foreign land, the white hair on the temples of the traveler, and the poet’s feeling of not wanting to go home but missing home.
《旅怀》是唐代崔涂的七律诗。诗中写：落花和流水的无情，诗人前往楚地时候的所见，在外乡寄回家乡的书信没有回音，旅人的两鬓长出白发，诗人自己不想回家又想家的心情。
《旅怀》 崔涂
水流花谢两无情，送尽东风过楚城。
蝴蝶梦中家万里，子规枝上月三更。
故园书动经年绝，华发春唯满镜生。
自是不归归便得，五湖烟景有谁争？
Thoughts for Home
Cui Tu
Water flows and flowers fade mercilessly alike,
And I send East Wind beyond Chucheng.
In a fond dream, I see my home thousands of miles afar,
Yet when I wake up was a cuckoo in my sight on a twig and the moon at midnight.
Not a letter from home for years,
And time turns my hair grey on temples.
Home I return not. If I do,
Could not the magnificent scene of Five Lakes be mine?
