Homesick Tom Sharp

We used to fish with slender bamboo poles, my childhood friends and I. I think of them every day, far away. Hundreds of springs feed the river. I left my parents and brothers and married far from home. * The river is fed by hundreds of springs. My first love married far away. I can’t forget her smile or her jade pendants. The river flows gently toward the east. I think I’ll take a wooden rowboat and drift forever with the current.

竹竿 诗经

籊籊竹竿，以钓于淇。 岂不尔思？远莫致之。 泉源在左，淇水在右。 女子有行，远兄弟父母。 淇水在右，泉源在左。 巧笑之瑳，佩玉之傩。 淇水滺滺，桧楫松舟。 驾言出游，以写我忧。