新  大  陆  诗  双  月 刊
2000年12月第61期

中诗
英译
	郑炜明诗选译Cheng Wai Ming's poems
		Translated from the Chinese by Jianqing Zheng

　Sketch 素　描

Sky blue
Water blue
Sand also blue

Sunset is perfectly round
A yolklike mirage

Two puppies
Trot and pause
Yelp and wag

A weary sampan moors
Waiting for loneliness to approach

　Cigarettes 
	香烟三首

1.
A wisp of lost passion rises,
Then

Floats away. In the sky

2.
Loved you once,
For your slender waist
And snow-white skin,
For your charming strong fragrance
And emotional ups and downs,

Even for your pale sadness curling upward
And blush of fire quietly burning
After I kissed you gently.

3.
Oh, even our sighs
Are similar:

A wisp of paleness,
A spark of fire,
A breath of anxiety,
All gone with time
To an unknown place
Beyond the sky.

　Symbol of the Tombstone 
	墓碑的象徵

Return all emotions
To the earth.

Then
A piece of lasting indifference
Receives all expressions.

　Life 　人　生

A long river
Is waiting for
Swimmers
To swim across

Yet not everyone can swim
The river thus has banks
　Life's Modification  人生变调序曲

A man on stage
Must have a face
That is not his.

　Mutual 相

The original name for heart
Must be glass

Yesterday in a cafe
The moment we saw each other
We should have heard
The breaking sound of glass

　Today, Grandpa Will Share Out the Pork
	今天，太公要分猪肉

Today,
Grandpa
Will
Share out the pork.
One chunk for you,
One for him,
One for her,
One for everyone.
You all get a share? Very good, very good.
As I said before, Grandpa is always fair.
Ok, everyone is happy now, all of you are happy.
Oh, you're such a good kid.
I forget to give you a share, but you never complain.
Oh, you're smart, should know
That eating much pork will change your figure.
To keep fit and beautiful,
It's better not to eat pork.

　Thin 薄

The world is thin
Paper thin
Human relationship thin

Thin human relationship
Is heavily and
Thickly
Written on the
Thin paper

Human relationship
Is thin
Paper
Thin
The world
Very
Thin

But thin bills are not very thin

Which are
thickly and
Heavily
Paved on
Thin human relationship

So
thin human relationship
Isn't thin anymore
Thin bills
No longer thin

The world
Also
No
Longer
thin

　Wall 墙

Bricks
Red bricks
Are laid
Into
A wall
To separate the world
Into
Inside and
Outside

Inside is red
Outside is red too
But someone just
Wants to whitewash
Both sides
And apply
Other
Colors

　Philosophy──History
	哲学──历史

A circle
Resembles the sun
Very great

A parabola
Resembles the wave
Very great

A straight line
Resembles a sword
Very great

A point
Just a point
Is not very great