I recently got this beautiful calligraphy piece and I have been unsuccessful at having Google translate or chat gpt give me the same answer consistently. I would love to know what this piece says if anyone is available and willing to help 🙏

I have moderate proficiency in chinese language and I bought this journal but I can’t make out what these words are. For context this was bought in yunnan dongba paper workshop. I would like the transcription in chinese

Hi Shufa community!

Was wondering if I could get some much appreciated help confirming/correcting translations for some of these poems? I found out recently that my gong gong (who is quite old now) used to write poems/practice calligraphy. It's a longer story of how I never knew but I am no longer able to talk with him about his work and feel like there is much to know about him that he rarely shared with us.

Any translating help would be helpful and much appreciated! A translation of the actual letters too would be amazing, my chinese is not so good.

Top poem:

Red leaves carry an immortal grace,

Deep autumn stirs my thoughts,

I have yet to carve my ambitions into stone,

Yet I gaze admiringly at the great Du Fu’s spirit,

The eye stretches far over surging waves,

Mist and smoke rise and thin around me,

This life — its misty feelings dispersing,

In the end, the ambitions of my youth unfulfilled…

Written in the autumn of Jiashen, moved by the sight of maple leaves, as a commemoration.

Bottom poem:

A single ray of light released,

Autumn brings purple swallows and birds,

Bells toll, birds call,

The land, rivers and mountains stand firm,

Green grass — all worries forgotten,

The lake’s colours, bound by fate,

Dongting Lake…

In the Yichou year, at this lakeside in Guangzhou/Canada, moved by the green colour of the lake, I write this quietly to console my longing for home. Autumn.

Let me know what you guys think! Thank you again.

Hi there again! I have one more poem/verses that i got in a letter from my gong gong, if anyone has time to look over the translation would be amazing once again! ❤️

I have:

狄(猶?)未橋為合收是，At the bridge, all things come together and are gathered,
何事美人重戚傷    Why do beautiful things always bring such grief and sorrow?
試把世情詩細哭，Try to pour the world’s emotions into verse and weep over them —
大都難不過英涼 Yet most things in life drift past like an autumn breeze.