【五周年征文】The layer

betterbest

【五周年征文】诗歌一首，根据Stanley Kunitz的诗歌 The layer 改编。
  o$ D& N" r+ o8 ~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

I have walked through many websites,
some of them I like,
% |7 J  \2 I7 ]1 ^  Band some of them I do not like.
Oh, Lao Yang have made a tribe
# z8 ]6 Y! s4 v; |, b$ fout 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
. n) g5 e8 G" X3 f+ @+ }Precious to me.
In my darkest night,
when the moon was covered
and I roamed through websites,
$ K/ a  J, C: \/ d% Fa nimbus-clouded Lao Yang’ voice
directed me:
Live in the layers
not on the litter.
, m; C  v& d/ k' TThough I lack the art
( p7 a0 N8 _& L  P$ fto decipher it,
no doubt the next chaper
in my book of transformations
is already written.
6 D* R9 B: o6 oI love to live with Edmontonchina Community.

原文在此：
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The Layers
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; s  B. c4 I- _+ _" KI have walked through many lives,
1 v2 t; m- @7 ~some of them my own,
% ~4 F# W; e. |* ?& rand I am not who I was,
though some principle of being
: N0 {" `: H9 T! b& G: D9 ]2 ~abides, from which I struggle
not to stray.
When I look behind,
. }2 G. R/ q1 N5 ~as I am compelled to look
before I can gather strength
2 l2 {( U$ V( h9 }6 Oto proceed on my journey,
I see the milestones dwindling
9 X' O# Z) D; ztoward the horizon
+ K. z3 t" e6 F9 {3 _; S: b/ ]+ h4 sand the slow fires trailing
  d5 z* s0 G" B5 l6 X9 Gfrom the abandoned camp-sites,
over which scavenger angels
wheel on heavy wings.
4 J9 `; C7 s( oOh, I have made myself a tribe
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and my tribe is scattered!
How shall the heart be reconciled
to its feast of losses?
5 v$ |3 w! b5 wIn a rising wind
the manic dust of my friends,
those who fell along the way,
) R1 F! k1 u; c3 g( Cbitterly stings my face.
Yet I turn, I turn,
exulting somewhat,
with my will intact to go
; s" q: c6 ?4 H( G8 \+ lwhereever I need to go,
and every stone on the road
precious to me.
In my darkest night,
( I1 ?- e' C8 S8 Fwhen the moon was covered
and I roamed through wreckage,
a nimbus-clouded voice
directed me:
7 {# i- [6 q0 K0 z% G. B"Live in the layers,
not on the litter."
Though I lack the art
to decipher it,
2 r6 l5 }* q6 l* ~: q1 G1 @no doubt the next chapter
in my book of transformations
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4 i! W2 O& D6 Y7 ?I am not done with my changes.
—Stanley Kunitz

% s0 C! |2 J0 W% K% o5 {[ 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

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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
4 o  c! g: |  D' U$ z5 U谢谢版主，能给点花鼓励鼓励吗

. x9 L1 G: t* p! \# p' E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