Archive for 2019年2月
2月 26, 2019
An Xiaoji
MR. BUDDHA
My friend Qiang has found Budda,
Buddha this Buddha that all day long,
hasn’t found a wife yet,
so he says his karma will turn around.
Then his boss fires him,
so that was karma too.
Losing money in business
he says “good!” because good luck must follow.
When his mother kills a chicken
and his father drinks alcohol
in front of him, he tells them they are sinning.
Recently Qiang has got diarrhea,
runs to the toilet from morning till evening.
I tell him go to a doctor, take medicine;
he says no problem, no problem,
this is like monastic practice, too.
Translated by MW in Febr. 2019
标签：An Xiaoji, Buddha, buddhism, destiny, diarrhea, karma, life, love, marriage, medicine, NPC, poetry, practice, predestined, religion, work, 安小吉, 新世纪詩典
发表在 2019, 20th century, 21st century, Antique times, February 2019, Han dynasty, Middle Ages, NPC, poetry, Translations, Uncategorized, 新世纪诗典 | Leave a Comment »
2月 24, 2019
Xiang Zongping
SCHNEE AUF DER STATUE VON KONFUZIUS
Auf einmal ein Schneetag,
Flocken tanzen und treiben,
Konfuzius kriegt einen langen Pelzmantel.
Ein Kind kommt aus der Schule und ruft:
Schau her!
Schau her!
Der Weihnachtsmann!
12. Januar 2019 in Chongqing
Übersetzt von MW im Februar 2019
标签：child, coat, Confucius, culture, figure, fur, image, imagination, NPC, school, sculpture, snow, time, weather, Xiang Zongping, 向宗平, 新世纪詩典
发表在 2019, 20th century, 21st century, Antique times, February 2019, Han dynasty, January 2019, Middle Ages, NPC, poetry, Translations, Uncategorized, Warring States, 新世纪诗典 | Leave a Comment »
2月 24, 2019
Jiang Caiyun
ALTER SOLDAT
Opas Kamerad
hat keine Kinder.
Im Koreakrieg
hat er eine Hand dortgelassen.
Als Opa gestorben ist,
geht der Kamerad ganz in schwarz
mit leerem Ärmel
durch die Leute,
gibt Opa die Hand.
Übersetzt von MW im Februar 2019
标签：cripple, death, 蔣彩云, funeral, hand, handicapped, history, Jiang Caiyun, memory, NPC, war, wound, 新世纪詩典
发表在 1950s, 2000s, 2010s, 2019, 20th century, 21st century, February 2019, NPC, poetry, Translations, Uncategorized, 新世纪诗典 | Leave a Comment »
2月 23, 2019
Jiang Erman
RIVER
In the evening
I take my flashlight,
shine it into the river.
The kid who drowned half a year ago
sits in the water writing his homework.
He sees the light,
lifts his head,
smiles at me.
9/5/18
Translated by MW, Febr. 2019
Jiang Erman
FLUSS
Am Abend
nehm ich die Taschenlampe
und schau in den Fluss.
Der Bub, der ertrunken ist vor einem halben Jahr,
schreibt seine Hausübung im Wasser.
Er bemerkt das Licht,
hebt den Kopf,
lächelt mich an.
2019-09-05
Übersetzt von MW im Februar 2019
标签：child, communication, connection, death, flashlight, Jiang Erman, life, light, NPC, poetry, river, school, water, 姜二嫚, 新世纪詩典
发表在 2018, 2019, 20th century, 21st century, February 2019, NPC, poetry, September 2018, Translations, Uncategorized, 新世纪诗典 | Leave a Comment »
2月 22, 2019
Photo by Gudrun Kollegger
CHURCH
In the middle of the altar
behind and above
is a Chinese center.
Must be a coincidence.
The Middle Kingdom.
Probably some kind of cross.
It’s a big church.
Maybe they even thought of
the big one in Istanbul
where Christianity started
to matter in a very big way
with the first Christian emperor.
Until they destroyed it,
the crusaders
when they sacked
the Eastern beacon
of Christendom.
I wonder what they thought
when they built this big church
in the 19th century
in this worker’s district.
Today
a conference begins
in the Vatican
about rape
and other sexual crimes
perpetrated by priests.
I guess there is hope
right there in the middle.
Let us pray.
MW February 2019
Photo by Gudrun Kollegger
标签：austria, characters, Chinese, church, coincidence, Europe, Favoriten, history, Istanbul, Mediterranean, memory, peace, people, poetry, reflection, religion, St. Anton, symbols, Vienna, war, writing
发表在 13th century, 14th century, 15th century, 19th century, 2019, 20th century, 21st century, Antique times, February 2019, Middle Ages, poetry, Roman times, Translations, Uncategorized | Leave a Comment »
2月 21, 2019
Eryue Lan
RITUAL
dusk
a tree
on the line where the sun’s going down
beats an earthen drum
Translated by MW, Febr. 2019
标签：characters, culture, drums, dusk, earth, earthen, Eryue Lan, forms, history, horizon, image, imagist, impression, language, memory, music, nature, NPC, ritual, sound, time, tree, 新世纪詩典, 二月蓝
发表在 2019, 20th century, 21st century, Antique times, February 2019, Han dynasty, NPC, poetry, Stone Age, Translations, Uncategorized, 新世纪诗典 | Leave a Comment »
2月 19, 2019
Jiang Tao
PHOTO
Third year in primary school,
our class goes to climb the Great Goose Pagoda.
As we line up
a group of tall and gleaming white
Europeans comes by.
An old lady
gently pulls me out of our ranks
for a photo together.
Our class monitor smiles on the side.
This morning
our group from China
comes to Cambodia’s Cultural Village.
From a mother who looks less than 40
I take a boy
to hold him for a photo.
Like holding
myself as a child.
1/25/19
Translated by MW, Febr. 2019
标签：age, boy, child, childhood, culture, 蒋涛, group, history, Jiang Tao, memory, NPC, pagoda, tourism, travel, youth, 新世纪詩典
发表在 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, 2019, 20th century, 21st century, February 2019, January 2019, Middle Ages, NPC, poetry, Tang Dynasty, Translations, Uncategorized, 新世纪诗典 | Leave a Comment »
2月 18, 2019
Li Yi
GEBRATENES SCHWEIN WEINT IM HERZEN VOM HUND MIT SEHNSUCHT NACH SÜDEN
Ich und die Dichter
gehen nach Japan
(besuchen Shinjuku Kabukichō,
die Manga-Meister Akira Toriyama & Ryoichi Ikegami),
nach Taiwan
(essen die besten chinesischen Dim-Sum,
bewundern Mädchen so schön wie frisches Wandpapier)
gehen nach Kambodscha
(hören Schreie von Seelen
in Ritzen von Angkor Wat).
Ich möchte auch heuer im Sommer
nach Russland reisen
(Ai Hao hat sich angemeldet),
aber das geht alles nur in Gedanken
(Ich bin ein Mann ohne Geld).
Gestern Abend
spiel ich mit meiner Tochter
im Zimmer.
Sie sagt Papa,
komm schwimmen!
Also lieg ich auf dem Bauch auf der Decke auf der Matratze
und kraul durch die Wogen.
Diese Ente hat keine Flossen,
der Papa hat keinen Groschen.
Übersetzt von MW im Februar 2019
标签：Cambodia, children, family, imagination, Japan, Li Yi, money, NPC, poetry, russia, Tokyo, travel, 新世纪詩典, 李异
发表在 2018, 2019, 20th century, 21st century, February 2019, January 2019, July 2018, NPC, poetry, Translations, Uncategorized | Leave a Comment »
2月 17, 2019
Xiang Lianzi
IN CAMBODIA
Stepping on the soft
soil
very carefully
scared
I might tread on
a skull.
Translated by MW, Febr. 2019
标签：asia, bones, Cambodia, fear, history, memory, mines, NPC, poetry, skull, Southeast Asia, travel, war, Xiang Lianzi, 新世纪詩典, 湘莲子
发表在 1960s, 1970s, 1979, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, 2019, 20th century, 21st century, February 2019, January 2019, NPC, poetry, Translations, Uncategorized, 新世纪诗典 | Leave a Comment »
2月 15, 2019
Song Zhuangzhuang
SNOWMAN
Big snowfall in town.
In an acupuncture clinic,
five doctors in white
sit around drinking tea.
No patients at all.
Outside it’s white far and wide.
One of the white-coats
builds a small snowman
on the window sill
and sticks a needle
in the snowman’s butt.
The white-coats are laughing,
each gets a needle in,
finishing their
work for the day.
1/19/19
Translated by MW, Febr. 2019
标签：acupuncture, body, Chinese medicine, fun, health, holidays, medicine, needle, outside, people, science, snow, society, Song Zhuangzhuang, tea, white, window, winter, work, 宋壮壮, 新世纪詩典
发表在 2010s, 2019, 20th century, 21st century, February 2019, January 2019, NPC, poetry, Translations, Uncategorized, 新世纪诗典 | Leave a Comment »
2月 13, 2019
AUFSTOSSEN
omi ist da
ich kann mich satt essen
kann mich satt essen
und
aufstossen
aufstossen fühlt sich herrlich an
Übersetzt von MW IM Februar 2019
标签：body, eating, family, feeling, food, growing, growing up, Hai Jing, history, memory, NPC, poetry, 新世纪詩典, 海菁
发表在 2019, 20th century, 21st century, February 2019, NPC, poetry, Translations, Uncategorized, 新世纪诗典 | Leave a Comment »
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