花非花
花非花，雾非雾。
夜半来，天明去。
来如春梦几多时，
去似朝云[1]无觅处。
《花非花》是白居易写的一首朦胧诗，诗中人物似花似雾，如梦如云。通篇都用比喻，但是只用喻体（用作比喻之物），不见喻本（所喻之人或物），所以就朦胧了。这首诗由作者编入“感伤”之部，放在悼亡之作《真娘墓》和《简简吟》之后。《真娘墓》中有“真娘死时犹少年”“难留连，易销歇；塞北花，江南雪”等三七言诗句，《简简吟》中有“彩云易散琉璃脆”之句，所以《花非花》也很可能是悼亡之作。
注释：
[1]朝云：典故出自《高唐赋》，化用“朝云暮雨”，比喻男女情爱。
A Flower in the Haze
In bloom, she’s not a flower;
Hazy, she’s not a haze.
She comes at midnight hour;
She goes with starry rays.
She comes like vernal dreams that cannot stay;
She goes like morning clouds that melt away.
《花非花》是唐代诗人白居易创作的一首杂言古诗（也可看作是一首词）。此诗表达了对人生如梦幻泡影，如雾亦如电的感慨，表现出一种对于生活中存在过，而又消逝了的美好的人与物的追念、惋惜之情。全诗由一连串的比喻构成，描述隐晦而又真实，朦胧中又有节律整饬与错综之美，是情诗中的佳作。同时，全诗语意双关，雾、春梦、朝云这几个意象都是朦胧缥缈的，意象之间又有意省略了衔接，显现出较大的跳跃性，文字空灵精练，使人咀嚼不尽。后人曾将此诗谱为曲子，广为流传。
“A Flower in the Haze” is an ancient poem in miscellaneous languages (it can also be regarded as a lyric) written by Bai Juyi, a poet of the Tang Dynasty. The poem expresses the feeling that life is like a dream and a bubble, like fog and lightning, and expresses a feeling of remembrance and regret for the beautiful people and things that have existed in life but have faded away. The poem is composed of a series of metaphors, the descriptions are obscure but real, and there is a rhythmic and intricate beauty in the haze, which is a masterpiece among love poems. At the same time, the whole poem is a double entendre, with the imagery of fog, spring dreams and morning clouds being hazy and indistinct, and the articulation between the imagery is intentionally omitted, showing a large leap, and the words are airy and refined, making people chew on them. The poem was composed as a tune by later generations and has been widely circulated.
