新竹

New Bamboo

 

Break the frozen earth

Shoot through the crags of rocks

Still bearing your brown afterbirth

And the frost of the night

Your greenness deepens

As one section leaps higher

Than the other

You thrust your spear

To the blue sky

To catch the clouds

From far away

To hold the new moon

For a few nights of

Sparkling light

 

新竹（翻譯： 鄉緣）

還穿著棕色的胎衣

還披著黑夜的寒霜

就突破了冰封的大地

一節比一節高

一節比一節翠

穿過懸崖間的縫隙

把鋒銳刺向藍天

攬住自遠方而來的雲

捧著那彎新月

沐浴幾夜清暉

[庶士]

好俊秀的新竹，好溫馨的家！