【七律】訪普魯斯特墓

《追憶似水年華》是我很喜歡的作品，它的作者普魯斯特是我很喜歡的作家。普魯斯特因病常年不能外出，被困在家裏，他埋首創作，用回憶往事和想象的虛構交織，終成巨著。幾年前第一次去巴黎，下了飛機，到旅館登記入住，然後乘地鐵直奔拉雪茲神父公墓，普魯斯特就長眠在那裏。

 

【七律】訪普魯斯特墓

 

長臥市郊公墓裏，死生契闊終安息。

如煙往事惜還珍，似水年華追可憶。

妙語優文出宅心，奇思冥想飛天翼。

吾之拜謁因神交，千古文章已造極。

 

A Visit to Proust' s Grave

 

Plane landing. Hotel checking in.

I then went straight to Lachaise cemetery

where you have your final resting.

 

Parting and reunion. Life and death.

No more and no less.

You have settled in peace.

 

Foretime and future rhyme.

I was in search of your past, and

how you were in search of lost time.

 

It was quite a quest

to bring back all that has left.

Magic words flew out of your chest.

 

What's gonna fly? Made up or real things?

It doesn't matter in that

your imagination has wings.

 

Confined to a small house

during and after life,

you'll still always inspire

 

'cause your work broke out of the house arrest,

went on to the mountain top,

turning into a diamond spire.

 

(© September 24, 2023, godog)