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I traveled all over the villages to find you- 10 Selected Chinese and Foreign Poems (35)

I traveled all over the villages to find you- 10 Selected Chinese and Foreign Poems (35)

Echo

Akhmatova (USSR)

The road to the past has long since disappeared, in fact, today

What else do I need to explore the remnants of the past?

What's over there? It's a slate stained with blood,

It is the railing door that enters the tomb,

Or the echo that still refuses to be silent,

Even though I begged again and again, it just wouldn't listen...

This echo is the same as the thought in my heart,

I refuse to be quiet.

Translated by Dai Xiao

I have traveled all the villages looking for you

José Martí (Cuba)

I have traveled all the villages looking for you,

Has been finding the end of the world where the white clouds flutter,

To find your shadow,

I picked a lot of irises in the valley.

The flowers spoke to me sadly:

"How much pain have you brought with you!"

Why do you have to collect blue flowers,

She had chosen the yellow bouquet. ”

What's going on? I've traveled all over the world,

Yesterday finally found you,

But my beating heart,

But suddenly it didn't belong to me!

Translated by Ulan Khan

night

Martinsson (Sweden)

Lean over and look! There are stars in the well.

Brilliant Venus

It shimmers quietly among the reflected sheep's tooth leaves.

It was a night of green earth.

The stars are showing their faces, how clear!

It seems to appear from a window on the earth.

Translated by Li Kasa

Young girl

Pound (USA)

The tree grows into the palm of my hand,

Leaves rise up on my arm,

Tree on my chest

Long downwards,

Branches grew like arms out of me.

You are the tree,

You are moss,

You are the violet blowing in the breeze,

You're a child —so tall,

All this is regarded as foolishness by the world.

Translated by Zhao Yiheng

Yangtai

Vittorio Serena (Italy)

Suddenly, twilight shrouded

You didn't know it then

Where is the other side of the lake?

There was only a low whisper

Skimming over our lives

Under that dangling balcony

That night

Under the flash of a torpedo boat

We're all for one

There is no such thing as saying anything

And fearful

After the torpedo boat spied on us

Turned around and left again

Translated by Qian Hongjia

I traveled all over the villages to find you- 10 Selected Chinese and Foreign Poems (35)

My heart is on the plateau

Pence (UK)

My heart is in the plateau, my heart is not here,

My heart is in the plateau, forcing the deer.

Chasing wild deer, stalking roe deer;

My heart is on the plateau, no matter where I go,

Goodbye, highlands, goodbye, northern countries,

The hometown of heroes, the venerable homeland,

No matter where I go, where I go,

I will always love the hills of the plateau.

Farewell, towering snowy mountains,

Farewell, the streams and valleys under the mountain,

Farewell, the forest and the woods of the branches,

Farewell, the roar of the rapid rivers and torrents,

My heart is in the plateau, my heart is not here,

My heart is in the highlands, chasing deer,

Chasing wild deer, stalking roe deer,

My heart is on the plateau, no matter where I go.

Translated by Yuan Kejia

listen

Capelan (Finland)

listen

In silence

No Silence:

fingernail

wall.

Translated by Kitajima

Walk the road at night

Hesse (Germany)

At night I walk on the road of dust,

The high wall casts a slanting shadow,

I saw it through the vines

Sprinkle the moonlight on the creek and the road.

Songs that have been sung before,

And I whispered again,

Countless shadows

Staggered on the road.

The voices of previous years echoed in the ears again,

exposure to wind, snow and sun,

Summer nights and blue lightning,

Storms and the fatigue of the journey.

Tanned skin,

Suck enough in this abundant world,

I felt myself being dragged forward,

Until my path fell into the darkness.

Translated by Hu Qiding

The last love letter

Zhang Zhihao

Write a love letter to the heartless

I wish him a good death too

May he finally win loneliness, old age and regret

These belonged to him in the first place

Booty, through a long journey through time

Delivered late at night

He will put on a fluffy nightgown and pull on his slippers

Come downstairs, quiet snow

Stamped postman

The moon proved that he was indeed out of his hands

I took the pen and signed it in the lower right corner of the paper

The name of a winner

With his rebellious handwriting

Night helped me calm down

Rusisi

When night falls, everything is dark.

It's like there's nothing in front of you.

It's like everything is over, everything is not your own.

Even this body is not its own.

Why light a lamp?

Let us see what we shouldn't see.

Night is my comfort and grace.

Night helped me to calm down and enjoy rest.

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