William Marr's bilingual poem SOMETIMES YOU appeared in Chicago Chinese News, 2021.8.13

 

 有时候妳

有时候妳故意把脸

拉成一个帘幔深垂

高高在上的长窗

挡住阳光

挡住欢笑

挡住焦急关切的眼神

 

而早已超过恋爱年龄的我

依然满怀酸楚

整夜徘徊在妳窗下

希望在千百次的抬头里

会有那么幸运的一次

看到妳的眼睛在帘缝间

如云后的星星闪烁

 

 

SOMETIMES YOU

 

Sometimes you pull down the curtains

and make your face a tall window

aloof

far from the ground

shutting out the sunshine

shutting out laughter

shutting out all concerned gazes

 

Though my courting days are long past

all night I wander beneath your window

hoping to catch, in the thick of the curtains

a glimpse of your eyes

like the flickering stars

behind heavy clouds

【作者简介】非马，美国华裔诗人，英文名 William Marr，威斯康辛大学核工博士，在美国从事能源及环境系统研究工作多年。曾任美国伊利诺州诗人协会会长，出版中英文诗集二十三种，以及英法意多语诗选五种。另外他还出版了三本散文集及十三本译著。他的诗作被收入百多种选集及台湾，大陆，英国及德国等地的教材并被译成十多种文字。曾获《马奎斯世界名人录》及意大利宇宙出版社国际审查董事会颁发的终身成就奖及台湾「中国文艺协会」颁发的中国文艺奖章。近年并从事绘画与雕塑，在美国及中国举办了多次艺术个展与合展。

William Marr, a Chinese-American poet and recipient of a PhD degree in nuclear engineering from University of Wisconsin, had engaged in energy and environmental systems research for many years before his retirement. He has published a total of over 30 books of poetry, essays and translations in his native Chinese language, and several English, bilingual (Chinese/English), and multilingual (Chinese/English with French and Italian translations) poetry anthologies. He is a former president of the Illinois State Poetry Society and the holder of two lifetime achievement awards, including one from the Marquis Who's Who Publications Board. In 2019, he was awarded the 60th Literary Award from Taiwan's Chinese Literature and Art Association. In recent years, he has also engaged in painting and sculpting and has held several art exhibitions in America and China.