Wang Yanding丨One Meter Away

Tr. by Yang Yujun     2020-07-14
摘要: Honorary Doctor of Letters from the American Academy of World Cultures and Arts, Vice President of the World Chinese Love Poetry Society, and Head of the Women's Recitation Team of the Beijing Recitation Art Troupe.

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The Night That Makes Us Grow Up Slowly

 

Keep this passage of time in mind   on such a night  no nostalgia of hometown or sadness of parting

Only a winding stream of reminiscence   that year  that month  two people under the same roof who take important things easy

Moonlight   chatting   silence and occasional cold wind blowing through the collars seem to contain words of concern

Forgetting the long journey over mountains and across seas  only warmth fills the eyes   listening and expecting   tearing and painful are the sounds from the pages

Realize many years later that such cries   oppressive though   always bring tears to our eyes  

Then tears turn out to be medicine to help grow up

Now I cry little  not because of old age but this tender heart has found a key

Knowing that each single night or day has nothing to do with destiny

Life will be a favonian trip with the heart pervaded with scent of flowers 



Rebirth

 

As autumn comes,a grand ceremony follows

Grass,  petals,and fruits

With bites of some insects

Even souls walking down the streets

Each step taken by me,  is a question, with echoes

As if from dews, whether weak or strong

Pilgrim is everywhere  

Endless reflection is everywhere

 

On a radiant branch, I try to give up

Logging, but gazing at each ripple

Of amazing sunshine, countless delicate waves

Pounding at thousands of rivers and moons upon them

All seem unreal, I know myself

There’s only one moon in my heart

I neither decline nor possess

 

I love the land, and all its

Presents, I love the true

The dreamy, at the warmest moment

I’m willing to retreat one step

Another step

Until, there’s no turning back

Until you fall in love, with my

Rebirth 



At The Thought Of The Beautiful


Think of the beautiful
Think of life in a poem 
Two trees are in love
But willing to leave
A space of eternity

Wind can't enter
Rain can't enter
Only thought of each other
Can well fill
The gap in between



If You Love This World

 

Today I only have a little

Grains and nuts

I refuse duck neck, chicken leg and good-will

Sheep liver

I fear their painful moaning

Would rot in my stomach

I fear some day, I would suddenly hear

My own heart weeping

 

Out of the earth, many shadows have grown

That know not the truth

The horrible violence

Greediness of human nature

The mouth is like a gate of blessing or misfortune

Gardens and fields on one side

Swamps of trap and death on the other

 

Those weak and kind, how innocent they are

Like floss on a primerose, bringing out

Another kind of beauty

Like willowed riverside, whistle spreading in the fine sky

There’s always some recovery from the melody

Totally unguarded 



One Meter Away

 

How many people still talk about love

I’ve painted a lake

Waiting for you a stupid bird

Don’t worry

I’m not your cage

But one who is the farthest from you

 

I’m only your spring tide

Your sand

An amber castle

When you’re tired

Now it’s my choice

To think of you

In a way the safest

 

My love is nearest

Yet I’m the farthest

From you



When I’m With You

 

I’ll write down eternity

Write down four seasons, sunshine

Write down a deep well

 

The water in my writing had better

Be cool and sweet

The people in my writing be all

Water like

Including you

 

I’m in your water

Immersed

Blooming into merciful flowers

One by one

My whole life

Wherever you are

I’ll bloom

In your direction  

 


I Always Think Of You Like This

 

I always think of you like this

Sunny after rainy

I’ll enjoy sunshine with you

Airing cotton clothes   grey hair

Airing

Wrinkles that started to appear last year

And our love so shy

At a young age

 

In the narrow lane

Of  the past long lost

We will walk around

And rest

Free like butterflies

Maybe all has changed

Or maybe not

 

Think of the warmth of your hands, the look in your eyes

How can they change

Think of

My funny uneasiness and awe

At the beginning

 

Life will unavoidably age

Like this

But love buried at heart

Never will 


(Tr. by Yang Yujun)


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Honorary Doctor of Letters from the American Academy of World Cultures and Arts, a member of the Chinese Writers Association, the vice president of the World Chinese Love Poetry Society, and the head of the female poets recitation group of the Beijing Recitation Art Troupe. He has written poems such as "Wang Yanding's Selected Poems", "Wang Yanding's Selected Poems of the Century", "In the Hometown of Tang Poetry", "My Silent Happiness Became a Lotus" and so on. A collection of Chinese poems "Warm-in-Hand Warmth" (selected in the "21st Century Literature Star" series by the Chinese Writers Association and the Chinese Literature Foundation in 2005). He participated in the twenty-fourth "Youth Poetry Association" of Shizongsha. His works have won many awards, and he has been selected into various literary texts at home and abroad. He is often invited to attend recitation performances at various literary evenings. Many oil paintings have been collected by Chinese and foreign collectors. In November 2017, he was co-sponsored by the Chinese New Poetry Research Institute of Southwest University and other units in the "Chinese New Poetry Centennial" Global Chinese Poetry Poetry Selection, and won the "100 Most Powerful Poets" Award of Chinese New Poetry Centennial.


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