夜訪繆思

 

牽著李白誇張的白髮

撚瘦沉思的鬍子

如果月色是一把梯子

三千丈之高啊

可以乘夜去拜訪繆思

滿天的星子

該是你的詩句吧

而那天邊的弦月

是魔術師的一隻變形的杯子

或是畫家的一筆扭曲的線條

而此刻徐徐吹至的微風

就是所謂靈感?

 

TO VISIT MUSE BY NIGHT

 

Pulling along the exaggerated grey- hair of Li-Po

To finger thinly the contemplative beard

If the moonlight were a ladder

Oh ! several miles up the height

I could visit Muse by night

The stars scatter full in the air

Should be the words of thy poem

And the crescent moon at the end of the sky

Whether it is a cup of the magician to changes its shape

Or the twisting curved line of the painter?

Now, the breeze comes slowly

Is it the so-called inspiration ?

 

Note : Li-Po (701-762), a famous poet in Tang dynasty of ancient China.

               寫于2001/2/8                         February 8, 2001