A Number of Escaping Trails - Cheng Yong / 程 庸

Cheng Yong / 程 庸




A Number of Escaping Trails

If I make a promise,
I will escape for a lifetime.
The trails around me are waiting.

The sound of the evening flute soothes the toes,
Approaching the coast.
The corpus of many years
Has nothing left except the panic mice.
At the chilly night, the birds are in a great panic
on the tree.
The wind seems lazy.
Leopards create a lot of dust in the air.
The game of field in lie,
The crazy corn poppies bloom.

The trails we passed by yesterday,
have already escaped one by one.
Sun birds have nowhere to fly,
Chasing shooting stars with falling feathers.

Or hiding inside the bodies of mice.
At the high noon,
They strive to sparkle wit thoughts.

(Translated by Amy)





一条条逃逸的小径

如果给你许诺
也许一生就要逃亡
四周的小径在等待

晚箫的声音抚慰着脚尖
靠近了海岸
陈年的语库
别无其他，除了惊慌的老鼠

寒夜，树丫上的小巢翅膀惊恐
风，看似慵懒
而虎豹洪荒，随时尘土飞扬
原野游戏于谎言
疯长的虞美人，花朵肥壮

昨日路过的小径
已经一条条逃逸
太阳鸟已无路可走
凭借飘落的羽毛，追逐流星

或者躲入老鼠的体内
正午时分
竭力闪烁思想



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The Light of the Needle in the Corner

I'm afraid of sunlight
Seeking refuge from the accustomed hand of shadows
I may have been forced to be reincarnated as a mouse in my past life

Fear of things that are too powerful
Can illuminate every corner
Like the sun unwilling to set on time
And then other unexpected things happen unexpectedly
Like an unpredictable storm

I inherited a dark color
Those dull and unclear textures
Inherited the texture of meteor showers
Not being illuminated has become the norm
Sometimes I curl up in
Behind the trees or in the crevices of the hills
Or the corner of a ruined wall
Just like those people
who finish their farm work and go for an affair to have fun

And the only remaining energy in the body
its eyes flickered faintly
But it emits a slender light that can penetrate the needle tip
Touching the unknown dark night

(Translated by Amy)





《墙角的针尖之光》

我习惯于废墟的墙角
习惯于阴影之手的庇佑
时而冥想，前世投胎成一只老鼠

恐惧那些力量无边的事物
以及照亮一切角落
不按时下山的太阳
进而迎面那些从不预告的风暴

我的遗传属于暝色系列
那些晦暗不明的质地
和尘埃的肌理，习惯于不被照明
有时我出没山岗的罅隙间
或蜷缩在树丛后
就像那些
干完农活苟且一下的人们

身体仅存微末的热量
还习惯于穿过针尖的纤细之光
时时闪烁，触碰前方
那不可知的玄夜




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Cheng Yong is mainly engaged in poetry writing, painting and appraising cultural relics. He has been invited to give speeches in Chinese and Western classical art and literature in many universities in Europe and the United States. He is the co-founder of the Electronic Journal of China and Foreign Pen Association, which has been published nearly 100 issues. Most foreign authors of the Journal come from the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Finland, Switzerland, Argentina, Italy, India, Japan, etc. The paper Journal has also been published. Mr. Cheng also has published 21 collections of novels and works on identifying cultural relics, such as “Delingha Prisoners”, “Blue Bird”, “Official Kiln Beauty”, “The Collection of Madame de Pompadour”, “Su Shi Biography: Tea Ceremony, Perfume Tao, Porcelain Tao”. Those works are translated into many languages. “A Thousand Line Elege” is published by the Gugin Press, New York, the USA, which reflects on today’s war, plague, autocracy, anti-human rights and other disasters. He is the chief editor of “Selection of Chinese and Foreign Pen Association’s International Poetry”, “Modern Poetry Notes”, “Comparison identification of Jin, Tang, Song Yuan Porcelains”, “Introduction to the Appraisal of Antiques” and so on.


程庸，写诗、绘画与文物鉴定。曾应邀出访欧美多所大学，做中西方古典艺术、中西方文学的交流与演讲。与中外诗人一起创办《中外笔会》电子微刊，已出版近百期， 作者大多来欧美国家，并出版纸质选集。已出版文学、文物鉴定著作《蓝鸟》《官窑美人》《蓬帕杜夫人的珍藏》《德令哈囚犯》《苏轼别传：茶道、香道、器道》等二十一种， 作品被译成多国文字，其中以反思当今战争、瘟疫、集权等灾害为内容的英文长诗在美国出版。主编《中外笔会国际诗文选》《现代诗笺注》《晋唐宋元瓷器真赝鉴定》《古玩辨伪入门》等。