Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Poetry 2017 | Page 98

The Wonderful Place in the Past, Shanghai
Immaculate Heart of Mary College, Lin, Cheuk Yiu - 13
O Shanghai, O Shanghai !
Long has it been the mighty metropolis,
the hub of trading and commerce of the Far East,
The Ten Foreign Market and the paradise of adventurers,
Was explode into a gigantic grave by the ruthless bombing in wars,
Was hopelessly wrecked and reduced into rubble,
vulnerable to all the attacks of invaders.
O poor Shanghai, O poor Shanghai !
Who treasured your beauty in the past?
With the fluky development of agriculture and textile,
You finally regained your pure and steadfast beauty.
O my dear Shanghai, O my dear Shanghai!
Old City of Shanghai, symbolic place in history,
Was once a small place for the innocent civilians,
With the exuberant oversea trading business,
Shanghai was then promoted as a province.
The stupendous shopping malls in Shanghai,
the symbols of neoteric and commerce,
Yu Yuan Garden, an old garden dating back to Ming Dynasty,
was one of the famous tourist spots,
but under the baptism of cruel wars,
its beauty was gone!
O my dear Shanghai, O my dear Shanghai!
The Bund, the beach in Shanghai,
was the frontier drawn by foreign countries,
with buildings with Roman and European styles,
lining along the splendid beach,
O my dear Shanghai! O my beautiful Shanghai!
O my dear Shanghai, O my dear Shanghai!
It was once a hopeless place and grave for war victims,
But now strengthened, revived and developed,
one of the important and influential cities in the world,
Congratulations! Shanghai! Congratulations!
O my dear Shanghai! O my industrious Shanghai!