【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。
$ |3 y4 w# {# m4 w0 @/ ]2 b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,
( o: k/ h, q1 m+ D2 V/ N1 g- Hsome of them I like,
4 k2 a8 ?. g9 o& Nand some of them I do not like.
/ x% F0 A2 L# B- MOh, Lao Yang have made a tribe
1 w' v5 x, o9 H) Mout of his true affections.
I go, I go
) b" Y8 t' R8 [% Q' }% e9 R6 Pexulting somewhat,
with my will intact to go
wherever I need to go,
and every post on the Edmontonchina Community
% h* r! [+ `' p3 g+ pPrecious to me.
In my darkest night,
when the moon was covered
% u4 k" _# ^# l0 c6 Sand I roamed through websites,
a nimbus-clouded Lao Yang’ voice
directed me:
Live in the layers
: a. d, v; C. u, K7 D6 @not on the litter.
- H$ S* J, D/ A1 y9 ]Though I lack the art
3 @% q# ^- {0 O1 l8 U4 G' z" N( P% d, cto decipher it,
no doubt the next chaper
in my book of transformations
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I love to live with Edmontonchina Community.

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The Layers

$ U+ P! v& H. V+ cI have walked through many lives,
some of them my own,
9 }2 c8 V+ ?; mand I am not who I was,
$ k0 C  f* a1 R  E2 X4 ]- Xthough some principle of being
: w" Y! j) i( u) c4 `3 rabides, from which I struggle
not to stray.
When I look behind,
+ h$ X. K8 |& H* d0 `" o6 l: Tas I am compelled to look
before I can gather strength
: U9 H5 r1 [' a' o5 gto proceed on my journey,
2 a; n& ?( T5 _( i, u7 KI see the milestones dwindling
toward the horizon
and the slow fires trailing
from the abandoned camp-sites,
/ I, M* A  |; _& Y! Xover which scavenger angels
wheel on heavy wings.
Oh, I have made myself a tribe
4 s* `' M# z; ?! ?3 d; lout of my true affections,
and my tribe is scattered!
# U  y- K6 J! g) \How shall the heart be reconciled
8 b9 T, J) p; }. `; x' x' ~3 Dto its feast of losses?
! ~  w- g% A5 Z& Q/ s4 N0 IIn a rising wind
the manic dust of my friends,
those who fell along the way,
bitterly stings my face.
Yet I turn, I turn,
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4 K. w$ n  f( A% v1 hwith my will intact to go
. q( a/ g/ B) r0 Y- Vwhereever I need to go,
and every stone on the road
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In my darkest night,
when the moon was covered
and I roamed through wreckage,
a nimbus-clouded voice
directed me:
"Live in the layers,
% k3 G0 z- |  s2 g* u0 R3 Gnot on the litter."
" W4 L( W* U5 N0 h2 s& b7 TThough I lack the art
to decipher it,
# S) u3 x8 d3 n/ }! V+ `no doubt the next chapter
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is already written.
I am not done with my changes.
—Stanley Kunitz
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: `! \: q7 A4 l[ 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

2 |! R/ y( R. N- r( t) a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
; B& E' `* @* ^/ I) T谢谢版主，能给点花鼓励鼓励吗

8 L; R9 _- ~- f4 N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