Saturday, January 16, 2016

Yao Feng #12 - What can the poem do


诗歌无法阻止一辆坦克
但可以把坦克手
培养成一名诗人

他跳出那一堆钢铁
在一张没有读完的报纸上
写下这样的诗句:

春天还没有来
几只小鸟
飞落在绿色的炮筒上




on poetry's potential


a poem cannot stop a tank
but the driver of a tank
can learn to be a poet

leaping from his steel heap
the tank captain scribbles down these verses
you won't read in today's paper:

neither is Spring here
yet these few birds
flutter about the green barrel



(translated by Kit Kelen  [客遠文])

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