【五周年征文】The layer

betterbest · 发表于 2009-3-31 12:04

【五周年征文】诗歌一首，根据Stanley Kunitz的诗歌 The layer 改编。
写这个东西就是觉得好玩，现在没法征得Stanley Kunitz他老人家同意了，在此谢谢Stanley Kunitz

The layers

I have walked through many websites,
some of them I like,
and some of them I do not like.
Oh, Lao Yang have made a tribe
out of his true affections.
I go, I go
exulting somewhat,
with my will intact to go
wherever I need to go,
and every post on the Edmontonchina Community
Precious to me.
In my darkest night,
when the moon was covered
and I roamed through websites,
a nimbus-clouded Lao Yang’ voice
directed me:
Live in the layers
not on the litter.
Though I lack the art
to decipher it,
no doubt the next chaper
in my book of transformations
is already written.
I love to live with Edmontonchina Community.

原文在此：

The Layers

I have walked through many lives,
some of them my own,
and I am not who I was,
though some principle of being
abides, from which I struggle
not to stray.
When I look behind,
as I am compelled to look
before I can gather strength
to proceed on my journey,
I see the milestones dwindling
toward the horizon
and the slow fires trailing
from the abandoned camp-sites,
over which scavenger angels
wheel on heavy wings.
Oh, I have made myself a tribe
out of my true affections,
and my tribe is scattered!
How shall the heart be reconciled
to its feast of losses?
In a rising wind
the manic dust of my friends,
those who fell along the way,
bitterly stings my face.
Yet I turn, I turn,
exulting somewhat,
with my will intact to go
whereever I need to go,
and every stone on the road
precious to me.
In my darkest night,
when the moon was covered
and I roamed through wreckage,
a nimbus-clouded voice
directed me:
"Live in the layers,
not on the litter."
Though I lack the art
to decipher it,
no doubt the next chapter
in my book of transformations
is already written.
I am not done with my changes.
—Stanley Kunitz

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沧海月明 · 发表于 2009-3-31 16:26

betterbest · 发表于 2009-3-31 18:24

谢谢版主，能给点花鼓励鼓励吗

小熊之家 · 发表于 2009-3-31 18:38

你如果用杨氏英语写成，估计老杨就能看懂了，呵呵

小柔 · 发表于 2009-3-31 19:34

这篇征文好强.

竟陵残雪 · 发表于 2009-3-31 21:58

好诗，送花—— 一句也不认识，只知道有老杨，还有他的中文网~~~~~~~

朝阳 · 发表于 2009-4-1 10:14

原帖由 小熊之家 于 2009-3-31 19:38 发表
: |( s) p7 h" a7 W, h你如果用杨氏英语写成，估计老杨就能看懂了，呵呵

老杨已经精通除了杨氏英语的英语了。

红魔杖 · 发表于 2009-4-1 10:27

沧海月明 · 发表于 2009-4-1 20:47

原帖由 betterbest 于 2009-3-31 19:24 发表 ! K6 R2 W9 K9 T- |1 u9 D4 f8 }. i6 F
谢谢版主，能给点花鼓励鼓励吗

没问题，送花~~~要常来哟~~支持原创~~~

betterbest · 发表于 2009-4-1 23:34

谢谢斑竹，我一直想把它译成中文，但觉得自己的能力翻译不好

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