Visit A Waterfall In The Desert

來源: godog 2023-09-16 15:40:05 [] [舊帖] [給我悄悄話] 本文已被閱讀: 次 (2580 bytes)

Back in early May, I visited the Palouse Falls waterfall on the Columbia Plateau, a high desert or scablands, in the State of Washington. I was awed by the unique landscape there, especially miles and miles of purple vetch flowers on the hillside and the magnificent fall itself. The following poems are recounts of my visit.

 

Visit A Waterfall In The Desert

 

“Come away, O human child!

To the waters and the wild

With a faery, hand in hand,

For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.” (*)

 

Another reason: there's too much hustle and bustle in the city.

Sometimes I want to get away.

On a May day I did happily.

 

The empty roads led me to the heart of the desert.

Blooming vetches blanketed the hillside,

putting up a show with bright purple on a yellow background.

The land wore a Chinese emperor's dragon gown.

 

Downy tufts filled the shrub-steppe's dreams

that were rarely wet.

Wheat fields were just plowed.

Dirt and pebbles were fresh

but not new under the Sun.

Dust devils erupted here and there,

spinning, stirring up time's ashes.

 

The waterfall was milk white by the cliff,

as if the Milky Way jumped down in a sky dive.

It then re-emerged from the bottom of the canyon,

like the past's returning.

 

Tribes and their tents are nowhere to be found.

On the waves who are wandering around?

Light and shadow, day and night,

are the only and abound.

 

【七律】往訪大漠中瀑布

 

 

昔辭都市赴荒漠,五月雲英滿路開。

原上麥田才動土,風中沙柱盡成灰。

銀河疑向崖前落,歲月驚從穀底回。

部落帳營何處是,光陰波上獨徘徊。

 

(© September 16, 2023, godog)

 

(*) Quoted from W.B.Yeats's poem 《The Stolen Child》.

 

 

 

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美詩美文美圖,美不勝收~~~~~~七律,英文詩,隨手拈來,自由切換。欣賞!學習~~~~ -盈盈一笑間- 給 盈盈一笑間 發送悄悄話 盈盈一笑間 的博客首頁 (0 bytes) () 09/16/2023 postreply 15:42:57

謝謝盈盈鼓勵 -godog- 給 godog 發送悄悄話 (0 bytes) () 09/17/2023 postreply 08:39:53

好詩好文!特別到位!三讚! -天山晨- 給 天山晨 發送悄悄話 天山晨 的博客首頁 (0 bytes) () 09/16/2023 postreply 16:27:27

非常感謝您的閱讀評論與鼓勵! -godog- 給 godog 發送悄悄話 (0 bytes) () 09/17/2023 postreply 08:41:00

嘖嘖嘖。。仰望! 所謂“藝術都是相通的”,在這裏得到了最好的詮釋 ~~~ -xiaosai- 給 xiaosai 發送悄悄話 xiaosai 的博客首頁 (0 bytes) () 09/16/2023 postreply 16:29:29

多謝朋友雅臨鼓勵。非常同意您說的,藝術相通,語言並不是障礙。 -godog- 給 godog 發送悄悄話 (0 bytes) () 09/17/2023 postreply 08:44:35

中英文詩,學習了! -方外居士- 給 方外居士 發送悄悄話 (0 bytes) () 09/16/2023 postreply 16:47:02

謝謝方兄,也從方兄的詩中學到很多,獲得美的享受呢。 -godog- 給 godog 發送悄悄話 (0 bytes) () 09/17/2023 postreply 08:47:15

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