桃林故事

The Story of Taolin 

文｜白鹤清泉(Baihe Qingquan)

译｜周柯楠(Zhou Kenan)

情感的帖子，翻开

是一片不见花开的桃林

Emotional posts, opened 

That’s a peach forest that isn’t seen to bloom 

那是京广线上的一个小站

她的名字承载了我们的青春

It’s a small station on the Beijing-Guangzhou railway line 

Her name carries our youth

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那年月自行车穿过小镇

车尾扬起你咯咯的笑声

Those years I used to cycle through the small town

And you giggled at the back of my bike 

我用男人的气概蹬过长坡

汗水直达东塘西岭

I pedaled my bike across the long slope with manhood

My sweat spilled in Dongtang and Xiling

那里不远处有我们小屋的温馨

学校到医院的路上

粉红的故事总是弥漫着灰尘

There stood our cabin full of warmth not far away

On the way from the school to the hospital 

Pink stories were always filled with dust

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而今宽阔洁净的柏油路

远去了，那些夏夜的星辰

Now the asphalt roads are wide and clean 

Gone far away, are the stars of summer nights

青葱岁月遗落片片风景

点点萤火在诗里忽暗忽明

The green years have left behind pieces of scenery

Little fireflies keep flickering in the poetry

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好几回梦里踩塌了

自行车停靠的小桥流水

Several times in my dream my feet slip off the pedals 

I park my bike by the small bridge across the brook 

好几回月下迷失了

那一朵五六月的粉红

Several times in the moonlight

I’m fascinated by the pink flowers of May and June 

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桃花三月年年回首

梦里江南也会白头

I look back on the past every March when peach flowers bloom 

In the  dreamy South of the Yangtze River my hair has  grown grey

我远方的诗歌是一行大雁

愿你读成云中锦书

My distant poetry is a line of wild geese flying 

I hope you think of it as my letter through the clouds 

2016年11月26日 

November 26th,2016