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非马 · 发表于: 星期六十二月 01, 2007 2:03 pm 发表主题: 天葬诗 (双语)

天葬诗

气喘吁吁
他们把一个快腐烂了的
诗体
抬上天葬台
还来不及用斧砍刀切
它便自行崩溃肢解

涂上香油
他们把那些原本华丽铿锵的
词片与字块
高高向天抛起
让死亡使者去接引超度

蹲坐在不远处的枯枝上
一群兀鹰紧敛著翅膀
任那些没有血肉的东西漫天飞舞
它们只来个相应不瞅不睬

上过几次当以后
它们都已学了乖

SKY BURIAL OF A POEM

huffing and puffing
they carried the corpse
of a poem
onto the sky-burial site
without the touch of an ax or a knife
it fell to pieces by itself

embalmed with aromatic oil
they tossed, high into the sky,
words and phrases
that were once beautiful and in good rhyme
hoping the Emissary of Death
would catch and take them
to heaven

without even casting a glance
the vultures, with their wings folded
just perched on the dead branches nearby
they had been taken in too many times
by such tasteless stuff
devoid of flesh and blood

Sky burial is a Tibetan custom of disposing a corpse by cutting it into
pieces which are then scattered for the circling vultures.

Lake · 发表于: 星期六十二月 01, 2007 9:42 pm 发表主题:

I maybe way off, but this poem sounds to me like an allusion to a recent debate over what a good poem is.

Regards,

Lake

星子 · 发表于: 星期六十二月 01, 2007 10:38 pm 发表主题:

The nature has its way to survive, so does a good poem.

A poet is great not only by his poems but also by his attitude.

For that, I respect you.
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非马 · 发表于: 星期六十二月 01, 2007 11:23 pm 发表主题:

Thank you, Lake and 星子.
I wrote this poem in Chinese awhile back, but just translated it into English recently.

一般人对熟悉的东西总是比较放心,甚至有恋旧的情结,所以我能了解有些读者甚至诗人对新事物的拒斥心理.但我相信传统的语言与形式已不足以表达复杂多变的现代生活, 不管你使用原本是多么华丽的词句,或押多顺耳铿锵的韵. 试验再试验,创新又创新,只有这样,我们也许才有可能写出一两首好诗, 冲击感动一两个开阔的心灵.

Lake · 发表于: 星期日十二月 02, 2007 12:52 am 发表主题:

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长篙 · 发表于: 星期四十二月 06, 2007 10:21 pm 发表主题:

突破总是响在耳边...
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忘掉写诗,你才开始真正写诗;詩無定法,隨性而安

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fanfan · 发表于: 星期四十二月 27, 2007 10:53 pm 发表主题:

A play on words 尸体 and 诗体.

非马 · 发表于: 星期四一月 03, 2008 12:12 pm 发表主题:

谢谢诸位有趣的讨论。祝新年愉快！