牛汉诗两首
夜
关死门窗
觉得黑暗不会再进来
我点起了灯
但黑暗是一群狼
还伏在我的门口
听见有千万只爪子
不停地撕袭着我的窗户
灯在颤抖
在不安的灯光下我写诗
诗不颤抖！
Night
by Niu Han tr. Fan Jinghua
Seal the door and shut the window
And I feel that darkness is screened off
I light my lamp
But darkness is a pack of wolves
Lurking outside my door
Thousands of claws
Scratching and mauling my windows
My lamp trembles
Under its quivering light I write
My poems don’t tremble
半棵树
真的，我看见过半棵树
在一个荒凉的山丘上
像一个人
为了避开迎面的风暴
侧着身子挺立着
它是被二月的一次雷电
从树尖到树根
齐楂楂劈掉了半边
春天来到的时候
半棵树仍然直直地挺立着
长满了青青的枝叶
半棵树
还是一整棵树那样高
还是一整棵那样伟岸
人们说
雷电还要来劈它
因为它还是那么直那么高
雷电从远远的天边就盯住了它
A Half Tree
by Niu Han tr. Fan Jinghua
Truly, I used to see
A half tree standing on a bleak hilltop
Like a man
Avoiding the frontal assaults of storms
It erects in profile
After a February thunderbolt
It split up into halves
One half of its trunk entirely chopped off
When the following spring came
The remnant still stood
Bolt upright with lush leaves on new twigs
Half a tree stands
As lofty and majestic
As the one that was whole
People say
Thunderbolts would hack it again
As it still stands so high and straight
It makes a conspicuous target for the distant thunderbolts
About the Author:
牛汉(1923-)，原名史成汉，出版的诗集有《彩色的生活》(1951)、《爱与歌》(1954)、《温泉》(1984)、《海上蝴蝶》(1985)、《沉默的悬崖》(1986)、《牛汉诗选》(1998)。
NIU Han (1923-), a.k.a. SHI Chenghan, has published poetry books Colorful Life (1951), Love and Songs (1954), Hot Springs (1984), Butterflies On the Sea (1985), Silent Cliffs (1986), Selected Poems (1998) etc.
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Niu Han: Enormous Rootstocks
Enormous Rootstocks
by Niu Han tr. Fan Jinghua
Behind the village
On the rolling hills
Year after year
Copses grow into new contours.
Deep into every autumn
Children wield sickles
Tree would be cracked down
And only truncated stumps remain.
The copses grow year
After year, and year after year
Their stems are chopped off.
For several decades they are still dwarfs.
Each year the corpses have only half of the time
To breathe with the lowly stubbles.
Anguished and suffocated as they may feel
But decidedly they are not to be smothered.
Their invincible will of life
Steers their growth toward the depth of the earth
Enormous nodes have grown on the underground stems
Which make their rootstalks
Harder and huger than
Any of those of the giant trees
People in the country south of the Yangtze
Would straddle them over the charcoals in the fireplace
And they would prove their worth
As the most durable fuel
Inexhaustible for a whole night and day
Because their lives contain ingrown heat and flame
Of several decades old
巨大的根块
牛汉
村庄背后
起伏的山丘上
每年，每年
长满密密的灌木丛
一到深秋时节
孩子们挥着柴刀
咔嚓，咔嚓
斫光了它们
只留下短秃秃的树桩
灌木丛
年年长，年年被斫
挣扎了几十年
没有长成一棵大树
灌木丛每年有半年的时光
只靠短秃秃的树桩呼吸
它们虽然感到憋闷和痛苦
但却不甘心被闷死
灌木丛顽强的生命
在深深的地底下
凝聚成一个个巨大的根块
比大树的根
还要巨大
还要坚硬
江南阴冷的冬夜
人们把珍贵的根块
架在火塘上面
一天一夜烧不完
根块是最耐久的燃料
因为它凝聚了几十年的热力
几十年的光焰
About the poet:
NIU Han (1923-), a.k.a. SHI Chenghan, has published poetry books Colorful Life (1951), Love and Songs (1954), Hot Springs (1984), Butterflies On the Sea (1985), Silent Cliffs (1986), Selected Poems (1998) etc.
牛汉（1923- ），原名史成汉，出版的诗集有《彩色的生活》（1951）、《爱与歌》（1954）、《温泉》（1984）、《海上蝴蝶》（1985）、《沉默的悬崖》（1986）、《牛汉诗选》（1998）。
by Niu Han tr. Fan Jinghua
Behind the village
On the rolling hills
Year after year
Copses grow into new contours.
Deep into every autumn
Children wield sickles
Tree would be cracked down
And only truncated stumps remain.
The copses grow year
After year, and year after year
Their stems are chopped off.
For several decades they are still dwarfs.
Each year the corpses have only half of the time
To breathe with the lowly stubbles.
Anguished and suffocated as they may feel
But decidedly they are not to be smothered.
Their invincible will of life
Steers their growth toward the depth of the earth
Enormous nodes have grown on the underground stems
Which make their rootstalks
Harder and huger than
Any of those of the giant trees
People in the country south of the Yangtze
Would straddle them over the charcoals in the fireplace
And they would prove their worth
As the most durable fuel
Inexhaustible for a whole night and day
Because their lives contain ingrown heat and flame
Of several decades old
巨大的根块
牛汉
村庄背后
起伏的山丘上
每年，每年
长满密密的灌木丛
一到深秋时节
孩子们挥着柴刀
咔嚓，咔嚓
斫光了它们
只留下短秃秃的树桩
灌木丛
年年长，年年被斫
挣扎了几十年
没有长成一棵大树
灌木丛每年有半年的时光
只靠短秃秃的树桩呼吸
它们虽然感到憋闷和痛苦
但却不甘心被闷死
灌木丛顽强的生命
在深深的地底下
凝聚成一个个巨大的根块
比大树的根
还要巨大
还要坚硬
江南阴冷的冬夜
人们把珍贵的根块
架在火塘上面
一天一夜烧不完
根块是最耐久的燃料
因为它凝聚了几十年的热力
几十年的光焰
About the poet:
NIU Han (1923-), a.k.a. SHI Chenghan, has published poetry books Colorful Life (1951), Love and Songs (1954), Hot Springs (1984), Butterflies On the Sea (1985), Silent Cliffs (1986), Selected Poems (1998) etc.
牛汉（1923- ），原名史成汉，出版的诗集有《彩色的生活》（1951）、《爱与歌》（1954）、《温泉》（1984）、《海上蝴蝶》（1985）、《沉默的悬崖》（1986）、《牛汉诗选》（1998）。
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