Sonnet 5 A Poem Broken By Sophy Chen

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Sonnet 5  A Poem Broken 

By Sophy Chen 

 

 

In peace, stood in middle of high mountains 

A wooden house as it circled by four walls 

A full moon’s shinning at the back of house 

Swaying high above in the leaves of trees 

 

Tiny candles are twinkling in the house 

Sitting in yard a girl is counting stars 

Her mom is cooking in kitchen in hurry 

Night birds singing, insets dancing in grass 

 

Suddenly, in Northern sky a star appears 

With a shinning tail, and another appears 

And then the third one less than five minutes 

All quietly in the Northern sky disappears 

 

Catching such a nice poem, the girl enjoys 

But a plane has her poem broken over house 

 

2013-10-05 Guangzhou China  

 

[中国] 苏菲《荞麦花开》（苏菲诗歌原创）《世界诗人》季刊 78期

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[中国] 苏菲 《荞麦花开》（苏菲诗歌原创）混语版《世界诗人》季刊 78期

[China] Sophy Chen  Buckwheat Flowers Blooming （Sophy's Original Poetry) The World Poets Quarterly (Multilingual) Volume No.78

 

 

 

 [中国] 苏菲
                        荞麦花开

秋高气爽，仰头望去
一湾压倒式的梯田
彩蝶纷纷 ，荞麦花开的正浓
成群的蜜蜂在花间低吟

 

蜜蜂和彩蝶铸成的花海
自然赋予它无尽的芬芳

 

午后若想打个小盹，去花海吧
仰面躺下，小伙伴千呼万唤
也寻你不着，甜甜 的做神仙美梦

 

此时，时光如若重返
我便携了心底的诗行
在九月的清晨出发
回到花 海深处，彩蝶曼舞
蜜蜂低唱，沐浴荞麦芬芳

 

爸爸说现在退耕还林了
荞麦花开时节是无边的林海
一阵松涛脆响，一股松香 袭来
仰头望去，山尖上云雾缭绕

2013-2-27 中国广州

 

[China] Sophy Chen

                    Buckwheat Flowers Blooming

 

The autumn sky is clean and air is crisp. Looking upward
In a bay of overwhelming terraces
Butterflies are one after another, buckwheat flowers flourishing
And swarms of bees humming among the flowers

 

Bees and butterflies make the sea of flowers
Nature gives it the endless fragrance

 

If you want to take a nap in the afternoon, go to the flowers
Lie on your back, and let your small partners call you a great many times
Yet can not find you, then you just do your immortal sweet dreams

 

At the moment, if the time were back
I would take my poetry at the bottom of my heart
Start in an early morning of September
Go back to the depths of flowers, with butterflies flying
Bees humming and buckwheat fragrance bathing

 

My father says it’s been returning farmlands to forests
In the buckwheat flowers blooming season it’s a sea of boundless woodlands
After the soughing of the wind in the pine trees, a stream of rosin hit
Looking upward, on mountain tops it’s mist-shrouded

 

2013-2-27 Guangzhou, China

 

Translated by Poetess, Sophy Chen 2015-03-01

 

 

苏菲对美国著名汉学家/诗人/翻译家Denis Mair (梅丹理) 就苏菲诗歌《荞麦花开》评语的自我解读：

 

苏菲的这首诗《荞麦花开》看起来十分普通，也没什么深刻的思想。可是老外看待这首诗的视角却不一样。今天刚刚发到国外诗歌网站：poemhunter.com，没想到老外对此诗歌背后的文化内涵十分感兴趣。如果不是老外今天给予鼓励，苏菲真的不敢将此诗拿出来了。不过今年的广州女诗人朗诵会上苏菲英汉双语朗诵了这首诗，自我感觉还不算太差。各大视频网站播放率还可以。现将美国著名翻译家诗人：Denis Mair(梅丹理)先生和苏菲的简短对话性评语抄录如下：

Denis Mair(梅丹理)： 

Hooray for buckwheat- it is a good, wholesome food crop! When I travelled to Xichang, Sichuan in August I enjoyed buckwheat muffins. You are lucky to have seen and smelled its flowers. I only enjoy it as food, but I never saw it in flower.. .

(9/12/2015 6:59:00 AM)

 

Denis Mair(梅丹理)：
荞麦万岁 —— 荞麦是一种很好，很健康的粮食作物！今年，八月份，去四川，西昌旅游的时候，我喜欢荞吃麦松饼。你很幸运，见过荞麦花儿，还闻过荞麦花的味儿。可我只吃过荞麦面，却从来没有见过荞麦花儿。。。。。。
(9/12/2015 6:59:00 早晨)
 

 

Sophy Chen(苏菲）：

My great poet and translator Denis Mair,

It's really a good, wholesome food crop, but it grows in deep mountains. My hometown is located in big mountains. When i was a little girl i could enjoy its beautiful flowers in every fall and had its food in noodles. My mother can cook it so well. If one day we met in China i can cook it for you and it's tasted so well and also good for health.

9/12/2015 6:59:00 AM)

 

Sophy Chen(苏菲）：
我伟大的诗人、翻译家梅丹理：

荞麦的确是，一种很好，很健康的粮食作物，可它生长在大山深处。我家乡在深山里。还是小女孩的时候，每年秋天，都可以观赏到美丽的荞麦花，吃到荞麦面节节。妈妈做的好吃极了。如果，我们有机会在中国遇见，我会亲手做给你吃，我做的味道不错，也利于健康。
（9/12/2015 6:59:00 早晨）
 

 
Denis Mair(梅丹理)：

This August I went to Luojishan Township (螺髻山镇) near Xichang in Sichuan, where I had lunch at a Farmers' Courtyard Restaurant. I thought I'd see buckwheat growing nearby, but we STiLL weren't high enough to see it. Now I know your roots are REALLY in the mountains.That's a nice picture of buckwheat. I look forward to trying buckwheat noodles.

(9/12/2015 8:11:00 AM)

 

Denis Mair(梅丹理)：

今年8月我去螺髻山镇。此镇靠近四川，西昌。我们在一家农家乐吃晚餐。我本想去看看附近的荞麦花，但大家兴趣不高，就没看成。现在，我明白了，你真正植根于大山深处。这首诗展现了一副美好的荞麦图景。我期待吃到荞麦面条。
（9/12/2015 8:11:00 早晨）
 

 
Sophy Chen(苏菲）：

Dear Denis,

Thanks for words!
I'm sure when you see buckwheat flowers in deep mountains you will write a nice poem and will never forget its beauty. In China, ordinary farmers do not plant it because it can not be planted in fertile soil and it needs to be planted at top of mountains nearly. Based on my experince in China I think you can not see its flowers in the countryside towns.

Sophy from China

(9/12/2015 8:43:00 AM)

 

Sophy Chen(苏菲）：
亲爱的梅丹理：

谢谢你的评语！

我敢肯定，当你看到绽放在大山深处的，荞麦花的时候，你一定能写出一首绝美的诗，也永远不会忘记它的美。中国农民一般不种荞麦，因为荞麦不适合种植在肥沃的土壤里，一般几乎要种植在半山腰上。根据我的中国经验，我认为你在那个镇上附近看不到荞麦花。
苏菲，来自中国
（9/12/2015 8:43:00 早晨）

（苏菲Sophy Chen英译汉）

 

苏菲英语十四行诗 之四 Sonnet 4 We Met on a Cross Road

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苏菲英语十四行诗  之四  Sophy Chen's English Sonnet

 

Sonnet 4

We Met on a Cross Road

— To Ruijie

By Sophy Chen

 

 

I've searched you on web by all your key words

Thousands of times I failed with great sadness 

By accident you appeared in my dream

Last night we met on our way to classroom

 

But I didn't know which University it was

It looks like around mountains, trees and cliffs

As if our departure we met on a cross road

With smile in vain at each other we looked

 

“Where are you going to?” unnaturally I asked

“On my way to be a linguist” You said

“I'd like to be a poet” eagerly I said

With long hair dancing in the wind you nodded  

 

Suddenly I was woken by women gossiping

Out side of window with some dogs barking

  

2013-10-10   China

苏菲英汉对照三俳句《枯萎的玫瑰》Haiku A Wizened Rose by sophy

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Haiku

A Wizened Rose

By Sophy Chen

On my desk, a white rose
Wizened, in a black vase
But still emanates its fragrance
    
2012-11-7 Beijing China

俳句

枯萎的玫瑰

苏菲

桌上，黑花瓶
一支白玫瑰，枯萎
仍芳香四溢

二零一二年十一月七日 燕郊

（苏菲英汉对照诗歌）

 

I Don't Care Anymore （by Sophy Chen 苏菲）

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 (This poem based on the film Maleficent ) 

                         
                         Turn me into whatever you want

 

I Don't Care Anymore

 

                                           By Sophy Chen

 

 

Go ahead. Turn me into whatever you want

A bird, a worm, I don’t care anymore

 

You say you need wings; I serve as your wings  

You say you need ears; I act as your ears

You say you need a horse; you turned me into a horse

I do carry you wherever you like to go

 

You are in danger; you turned me into a wolf

I fight only for you with my last strength 

You are in danger; you turned me into a dragon

I fight only for you to spit my last fire 

 

You say you need wings; I serve as your wings 

You say you need ears; I act as your ears

You say you need a horse; you turned me into a horse

I do carry you wherever you like to go

 

Go ahead. Turn me whatever you want

A bird, a worm, I don't care anymore

 

 

2015-01-02