Me, trying to be a Chinese poet
pulosm
November 05, 2007, 04:28 PM posted in General DiscussionI just came across these "poems" I wrote years ago. I thought I'd share. They might be awful, but let's call it poetic license. Thought I'd share, feel free to ignore, though...
擲給風，
使回憶在一場消失不見。
無論飄到南極去，
或被鳳凰吃光，
主要是眼前
連微小的痕跡也沒。
命運本來不是確鑿無疑的嗎？
人類可能懶得堅持，
不知所措地依靠幸運。
或是怕現實過雜和錯誤的決心，
而放棄自己的努力，
給命運讓步。
pulosm
November 06, 2007, 05:52 AMThanks! I should write some more. I was inspired to dig these up from the poetry chinesepod lesson!
ivyzhang
November 17, 2007, 11:24 AMGood job, Pulosm. keep trying, i think u will be a famous chinese poet. :)
xiaohu
January 13, 2008, 11:23 PMPuolism: Wonderful job! I think it takes a lot of guts just to try poetry in another language, but to publish it for the world to read it takes even more courage! This was my favorite passage: 使回憶在一場消失不見 It's like Robin Williams character John Keating said in Dead Poets Society, "We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion...poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for."
meimai
November 05, 2007, 04:31 PMYou are hard on yourself! Chinese poems are very difficult to write! You should try and look at poems by some of the famous Chinese poets. They had to start somewhere!