【五周年征文】The layer

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【五周年征文】诗歌一首，根据Stanley Kunitz的诗歌 The layer 改编。
6 b0 i' k9 n$ e2 d. W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
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    The layers
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I have walked through many websites,
6 T/ o4 T+ }" Z" {) B% H+ Esome 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
9 s2 ^  f+ H! k9 Z( g' qexulting somewhat,
! s. l2 o  I  a- P; M7 r2 C: Z* {with my will intact to go
wherever I need to go,
/ ?, v1 H" b+ a/ ^$ aand 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
8 ]! i! r: w3 N, f% q, T5 _directed me:
Live in the layers
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Though I lack the art
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no doubt the next chaper
" Q1 D8 A- b1 u( c" Uin my book of transformations
is already written.
* k+ `# D# `6 e3 oI love to live with Edmontonchina Community.
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4 Y2 @; y3 p0 `0 ^& h+ yThe Layers
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I have walked through many lives,
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and I am not who I was,
, a) T0 c; u" Y7 L8 {+ m$ M; t! Ithough some principle of being
abides, from which I struggle
* |' t# v" y7 ~not to stray.
) R+ U3 Y2 R. V3 _When I look behind,
as I am compelled to look
. E; y5 w1 ^( ~, m" Wbefore I can gather strength
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% n0 ~" ?" x+ p4 ]. `% z1 B" _# ZI see the milestones dwindling
3 ^: R  B2 j. _3 @4 J# u* dtoward the horizon
and the slow fires trailing
from the abandoned camp-sites,
over which scavenger angels
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Oh, I have made myself a tribe
out of my true affections,
and my tribe is scattered!
How shall the heart be reconciled
, l5 l. ]7 m0 a1 F5 F0 v! U: ~to its feast of losses?
/ |$ C+ X/ u9 A) E+ I) g- [! ZIn a rising wind
the manic dust of my friends,
) w, M0 W( p+ T2 o/ _* \, r& L! x; uthose who fell along the way,
bitterly stings my face.
Yet I turn, I turn,
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with my will intact to go
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and every stone on the road
precious to me.
In my darkest night,
when the moon was covered
& L* B, \, B, Q, x" }and I roamed through wreckage,
a nimbus-clouded voice
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! G, _) d5 H, I' y7 F6 {. m"Live in the layers,
not on the litter."
4 N0 d, Q; f6 M+ o  R6 T9 bThough I lack the art
+ a6 l3 h. J. h/ x3 O8 lto decipher it,
no doubt the next chapter
$ w3 z; C% r  g; ?/ f5 tin my book of transformations
$ v6 ]) U, Z7 N9 Z, ~4 Y1 L$ {is already written.
& f* w* N6 }+ C+ T/ JI am not done with my changes.
—Stanley Kunitz
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" M4 }. ^3 V* N% h: f6 W& R  `[ 本帖最后由 betterbest 于 2009-3-31 13:31 编辑 ]

沧海月明

betterbest

谢谢版主，能给点花鼓励鼓励吗

小熊之家

你如果用杨氏英语写成，估计老杨就能看懂了，呵呵

小柔

这篇征文好强.

竟陵残雪

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

原帖由 小熊之家 于 2009-3-31 19:38 发表
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

沧海月明

原帖由 betterbest 于 2009-3-31 19:24 发表
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

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