發錶於: 2010-09-03 23:40:57 發錶主題: A Mermaid's Tune 美人鱼之歌,E1/1,2,待续
A Mermaid's Tune
Episode 1.
1/ A Mist in the 2-D World
Please forgive a mermaid’s foolish tune
That passing through the morning dew
Who soon be turned into a mist in sky
By the rays the sun shall lie
And forget the disturbance the mini-bee stirred
As the flower was in deep dream without alert
She’s merely a mist or two
Worth zero to grasp
Drifts in the 2-dimention world
No deeper than nothing, as I was told.
A tropical fish in rain
Sobbing her sorrow in pain
Yesterday’s today
Tomorrow’s the same
Murky, the name of the water
Darkness, surround her like the sweet-wrapper
For a long time she’s been in half-coma
The supplies for life ----the mixture
Brewed with all the escapers
----the Pandora’s lost treasures, good ones and evils
And you, my dear, the very thing I mind
The best thing I left behind
Yet still in the Box
As innocent as ever
As pure as still water
Never should I dip a dirty finger in it.
My only hope, you, live in another world
As in our previous lives, once I
Was in the wedding-dresss, standing by
The railway, you whistled by
In the train of no-return and away, forever
Like the fish and the shore
Only lives in each other’s sight for sure
Yet the reality the sea, keeps us
On the bay of our own lives, you see
Only, I could, hear your heart beating, as you could
Hear mine’s pumping, in the soft moonlight
When gently, the sea horses sing the romantic lines
not sure "who" is until I read the Chinese version. Would "that" or "which" work better? Is there a "will" needed before "soon"? _________________ the trouble with poetry is that it encourages the writing of more poetry -- Billy Collins