This spring couplet (春聯) was written as a present to my parents for Chinese New Year. The two lines read:
春來芳草依舊綠 — Spring comes, tender grasses return to green
時到梅花自然紅 — Season arrives, plum blossoms naturally redden
The two lines are written in 對仗 (parallelism in Chinese poetry), where each word in each line mirrors its counterpart in the other line: spring/season, comes/arrives, tender grasses/plum blossoms, returns/naturally becomes, green/red.
