作者yuuyh (自殺炸彈客)
看板poetry
標題[創作] Notes from the Northern Sea
時間Sun Nov 28 22:50:19 2010
Out of the window came the rain
from the northern sea
when she cried.
Once the same rain fell on that hero's funeral pyre,
on the wanderer's lonely road,
on the seafarer's boat staggering in the roaring storm.
Where have all the war horses gone?
Those young warriors, where were they?
Where did the waves bring them to?
Where have the memories gone?
Into the mind, into the heart,
into the words.
But why did she only find darkness there?
She scavenged through the mnemonic wastes,
only to find words burnt in that fire long ago.
Where are words then?
Ask the rain, ask the waves.
They know where to wash the pebbles out.
Ask the heart that always changes
when the winds alter direction
and blow the dusts into nothingness.
All is vanity and vexation of spirit.
There is time for tears and time for burning,
time for oblivion and time for her
to lie by the window, in the northern winds,
and write and write and write heroically
about the notes from the northern sea.
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◆ From: 180.218.53.119
1F：推 frolicker:nice! is it a feministic poem or a 60.250.158.48 11/29 00:50
2F：→ frolicker:memory/history-recalling poem? 60.250.158.48 11/29 00:50
3F：推 spacedunce5:love the imagery and take on words! 61.228.75.114 11/29 01:31
4F：→ spacedunce5:always change"s" 61.228.75.114 11/29 01:31
※ 編輯: yuuyh 來自: 180.218.53.119 (11/29 10:01)
5F：→ yuuyh:thx for the correction! 180.218.53.119 11/29 10:02
6F：→ yuuyh:i think both takes are fine, frolicker~ 180.218.53.119 11/29 10:04
7F：推 frolicker:I like the former take myself~^^111.243.215.130 11/29 23:47