STONE HOUSE (圖)

Stone House At the center of it A man sits believing The walled-in truth Admiring the seamless Structure of his own Handy work, debating Where the window should be, to which direction? Thick and sturdy The stone house sits In the middle of The universe With the man walled-in Separated from what He has forgotten To enclose: truth In the invisible The incomprehensible The mere size of The intangible Lonely man Feeling defeated Grows ambitious And stubborn To make his mark Among rocks and grass He decides to build A bigger house In the middle of The universe :2/23/05 [found in dream] foto: by "warmbrain"

[影雲]

True, true, true - - - those are so called caged minds: )

[LTG]

yesssss, that's what i try to express in terms of our "smallness" vs. the universe, which is too "big" to comprehend ...

humans are always preoccupied with one's own "wealth", "property", etc...say, some rich person has a mnasion, or a billion dollars, for example, what does that mean if we step a little further back [or ahead]??

there is this "un-balance" in reality, as always ... and poetry is to provide some kind of "balance" in our consciousness so that we can see what's real and what's not...

thanks for sharing!!

[影雲]

I can understand it, but find hard to put it into Chinese - - - to me, the English version is natural and smoother - - - when translating it, I have a similar feeling as the man in the poem has, “being defeated” : )

This poem reminds me of an old Chinese saying, “Tang Lang Dang Che”(?). But on the other hand, without “against”, we never know how weak or strong and tiny or huge we are - - - life is a process for man to explore himself and we hardly know where it ends - - - a line I read long time ago is , “life is like a circle. The bigger the circle, the more unknown exposed.” ( similar )

just a thought:)

[LTG]

[...感覺翻譯的第二段沒有很準確]

2nd stanza means that "the man cannot --- it's impossible --- to include all that the universe has..."

:)

[影雲]

真好！還可以夢裏寫詩


石屋

屋的正中
麵壁的人相信
圍住的真理
愛戀自己手工活
無縫的構造，思考
窗應該開在哪裏
朝哪個方向？

厚而結實的石屋
位於宇宙之央
人圈於其中
遠離忘記附帶的
真理：無形
不可理喻
無法觸及

寂寞的人
心升挫意
更加野心勃勃
堅持不懈
為了留跡於岩石草林
他決計在宇宙之央
修築更大的屋

感覺翻譯的第二段沒有很準確

[LTG]

yeah, very interesting dream ... lines already written when dreaming...unfortunately, some words are forgotten after waking up...

[影雲]

有意思的夢！！寓意深邃；
UNIVERSE以柔克MAN的剛 ：)