{"id":217,"date":"2013-03-27T14:55:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T18:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vajrayanabuddhism.wordpress.com\/?p=217"},"modified":"2013-03-27T14:55:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-27T18:55:00","slug":"old-poem-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vbatoronto.org\/en\/2013\/03\/27\/old-poem-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Cedars piercing the Sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vbatoronto.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/bullocks_oriole.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-243 alignleft\" alt=\"Male Bullock's Oriole at Atascadero Lake\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vbatoronto.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/bullocks_oriole.jpg?w=300\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>For fun, a colleague and I translated a poem Master Tam wrote in 1976 (published in <em>Mingpao <\/em><em>Monthly<\/em> in April 1976), in memory of Emily Dickinson for the 90th anniversary of her passing. The left column is his original poem, the right column is our experiment. Enjoy.<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"168\">\u5169\u682a\u523a\u5929\u7684\u9ebb\u6817<br \/>\n\u5982\u796d\u71ed<br \/>\n\u5e7d\u5e7d\u4f9b\u5217\u5eca\u524d\u2500\u2500<br \/>\n\u4f60\u81ea\u5df1\u7684\u796d\u58c7<br \/>\n\u591c\u8272\u5982\u58d3<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"274\">Two Cedars piercing the Sky<br \/>\nLike candles, a faint light<br \/>\nAt the end of the hallway\u2014<br \/>\nNight falls on<br \/>\nYour altar.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"168\">\u5a11\u5a46\u7684\u9aee\u9afb\u66fe\u51dd\u521d\u9732<br \/>\n\u7d20\u8863\u62d6\u66f3\u65bc\u8ff4\u5eca\u76e1\u8655<br \/>\n\u5f77\u82e5\u5206\u958b\u6e3e\u6c8c<br \/>\n\u4f55\u5176\u51b7\u5bde\u7684\uff0c\u7b2c\u4e00\u7dab<br \/>\n\u5b64\u5149<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"274\">Morning dew on Saha\u2019s tresses<br \/>\nWhite silk sweeps winding halls<br \/>\nCutting through early chaos<br \/>\nBitter first rays<br \/>\nLonely light.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"168\">\u679d\u4e0a\u7684\u9ec3\u9e1d\u4e0d\u5531\u65bc\u679d\u4e0a<br \/>\n\u4f60\u8aaa<br \/>\n\u6545\u7121\u9700\u6708\u8272<br \/>\n\u75d5\u8de1\u4f60\u4e8c\u842c\u500b\u6e05\u6de1\u7684\u65e5\u811a<br \/>\n\u66f4\u7121\u9700\u5893\u8a8c<br \/>\n\u4e5f\u7121\u9700\u7701\u8a8d<br \/>\n\u7576\u65e5\u5f98\u5f8a\u65bc\u8349\u5f91\u7684<br \/>\n\u978b\u5e6b\u8207\u5fc3\u8df3\uff0c\u4ee5\u53ca<br \/>\n\u62c2\u8d70\u6700\u5f8c\u4e00\u500b\u4e94\u6708\u7684\u5357\u98a8<br \/>\n\u6500\u904e\u6d41\u8679\u7684\u624b<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"274\">It is not of the oriole who sings<br \/>\nThe tune in the tree.<br \/>\nYou say the moon<br \/>\nFollows soft not the sun\u2019s 20,000 footprints.<br \/>\nNo reason for epitaph or<br \/>\nTo flee from shoe flaps<br \/>\nAnd heart beats that once stroked<br \/>\nThe fields, and roughing<br \/>\nThe south winds of May was<br \/>\nThe hand that climbed the rainbow.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"168\">\u5018\u8aaa\u6b64\u5730\u66fe\u6709\u8b2b\u4ed9\u5c0f\u99d0<br \/>\n\u98a8\u904e\u8655<br \/>\n\u7576\u5982\u9e7f\u5973\u6b65\u6b65\u8e29\u51fa\u84ee\u82b1<br \/>\n\u6b64\u5730\u5373\u662f\u84ee\u82b1\u570b\u5ea6<br \/>\n\u4eba\u82e5\u7247\u96f2\u5f9e\u6b64\u98db\u8d8a<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"274\">Say a banished immortal briefly lighted here<br \/>\nAnd like wind it passed<br \/>\nIf the deer girl took lotus steps<br \/>\nThis is the land of lotuses<br \/>\nLike clouds we drift from here.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For fun, a colleague and I translated a poem Master Tam wrote in 1976 (published in Mingpao Monthly in April 1976), in memory of Emily Dickinson for the 90th anniversary of her passing. 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