薑荷

停筆多日，思考，衡量。終究，還是回歸自由自在揮灑，想寫甚麼就寫甚麼，練習曲世界裡，跳躍奔馳。

這次，先試著練練中文，幾分彆扭，之後補填英文版。

薑荷 薑荷 江河奈我如何

靜觀 靜賞 靜遨遊

乘風 乘雲 乘天地

時時刻刻 渡野

分分秒秒 度日

霽月夜歸  回家回巢回自由

朝陽飲露  一吸一吐一盼望

薑荷 薑荷  點滴終聚江河

Lady Ginger Lily, to which torrent are you going?

Silently you contemplate and you escape,

in the winds, in the clouds, in the universe,

hour after hour, across the wilderness

tick, tick, tick, around the clock-----

Homeward, running in the moonlight,

Heavenward, breathing under the sunshine,

Lady Ginger Lily, your droplets stream into a river. 

白千層

我的2013練習曲，寫得東倒西歪，塗在紙上文字，蛇行亂撞，總算替腦袋瓜裡的雜蕪開一條路！瞧，這白千層不也是彎彎曲曲爬成自個兒的獨特風格?慣於宅在家裡、埋守書堆、躲在工作背後，卻因為跌了一大跤，摔傷後爬起，學會自己走路，學會走自己的路，白千層上的螺旋(screws)，也彷彿說著----Sorry, I screwed up.----但是，繼續行，走著走著，一股勁，爬上樹頭。

Ancient Helix, please tell me how you screw

up towards, not a goal, but the beatitude?

Please reveal the short-cut to cut through

prettily your hard-to-fathom spiral altitude?

Varyingly you bestir yourself forward,

left and right never do you want to stop;

with the meandering paths you go heavenward,

twists and turns, but your goal is on the top.

Despite seniority, an air of respectability

is sustained by crawling but sure action.

Nothing is more admirable than your durability--

perseverance is thus breeding your own fashion.

Humorously are you telling us the royal road,

not far away, but a forever new try after each node...      

老螺旋啊! 請你告訴我

如何節節敗退後  繼續勇往直前?

請你教教我 是不是有捷徑

穿越你難以測度的高深莫測?

一成不變 你打起精神向前行

或左或右  永不止息

蜿蜿蜒蜒 履行天路歷程

彎彎曲曲  堅持最高原則

老了  力道猶存

緩 慢 穩 勁

可敬可佩的韌度

屹立不搖  自創一格

你幽默指出帝王之路
不遠    在-----每次打結後重來

穗花‧流水

穗花‧流水

練習曲，英文構思，中文是轉譯。近日因讀英文十四行詩成癮，自動承襲此風。就是練習，越描越花，字句總在不經意跳出，每一行詩，都印證奇異恩典。第一號練習曲寫的就是穗花棋盤腳樹，再添一曲商籟，流水聲中高歌。

How can I capture your fleeting prime time

upon a crooning stream where you live?

How can the sparkling water your dream rhyme

write to celebrate what you generously give?

Your heyday, neither a temporal mark nor a space dot,

decks the immortal time-space, devotedly.

Your spirited show animates such a night spot,

Elegantly punctuating the brooks, connotedly.

Never do you reach the zenith of prosperity

for you utterly give away your endowment

                               　　　　　　  felicitously to beholders and to popularity

bounteously enlighten a brave new environment.

An irredeemable regret to repeatedly lament

the past golden age and let go this unique moment.

怎樣把握人生黃金時光

瞬間即逝  流水年華?

潺潺小溪如何歌頌你的夢想

如何稱讚你大方氣度?

最豐收的日子 不是時間點 也不是空間一點

卻虔誠地為不朽佈置時空

你精神鑠鑠 打動每一個夜空

悄悄地 幫著流水打節奏

其實你從未達生涯頂點

因為你日日拋盡千金萬銀

贈與欣賞你的眾生芸芸

啟迪我們這個魯莽無知的世代

悲莫悲 何必感傷逝去的美好時光

愁莫愁 勿再錯失千載難逢的此時此刻

美人樹

Is anyone able to challenge John Keats' 
Ode on a Grecian Urn, which tersely concludes
"Beauty is truth, truth beauty"--a theme eats
all our originality and more poetry eludes?
Beauty beyond true trees, invisibly obvious
beholders are looking after from Academy to Garden
loitering on the street, visibly mysterious
perceiving burgeoning leaved legend--since ancient to modern
Truth, Magician of beauty, silently defends
nothing but Life and Death, evidently inevitable
mesmerizing followers with always excessive demands
blindingly revealing pretty pages, plainly unreadable...
If beauty without truth or truth without beauty, nothing is possible,
the unheard melody--with beauty and truth--is forever accessible.


誰能挑戰約翰‧濟慈的大作

《希臘古甕頌》---一首詩漂亮總結

"美即是真 真即是美"---一語既出

再也沒有更有創意的詩作能超越

美   遠遠超越真實之樹   不可見卻明顯

觀  照   追   尋 踏遍學院與花園

漫步街頭 可見卻神秘

洞悉 傳奇片片 從亙古至今
真理 美的魔術師 默默地雄辯滔滔

生死之外 別無他求 無可避免

迷惑追尋者 總是過度予取予求

頓悟的章節 卻又不忍卒讀

美若無真 真若無美 事事皆非
聽不見得旋律---美與真融合----俯拾即是