Posts Tagged ‘leadership’
7月 12, 2024

Photo by Bumubutai 布木布泰
QUESTION
In the pandemic
behind the masks,
the rotten came out.
Insecurity,
everything you would
rather forget.
Everyone knows
the leaders don’t know,
nobody knows
what to do.
In the pandemic
the truth came out,
unbearably real.
Is it over now?
Who wants to say?
MW May 2024

Photo by Liu Tao 刘涛
问
疫情季节
面具后面
恶心出来
不安全感
所有宁愿
忘记的事
大家都知
领导不知
谁都不知
到底怎办
疫情季节
事实出来
不能忍受
现在好吗
谁又敢说
2024.5

Picture by Bumubutai 布木布泰
树
树就是树
星星是星星
风是风
冷是冷
小小的人
缩进屋里
快要睡去
早上复活
2024.5

Picture by Hezi 禾子
TREE
the tree is the tree
the stars are the stars
including the spoon
the wind is the wind
the cold is the cold
tiny people crawl in
disappear in their sleep
and rise when they can
MW May 2024
标签:cold, disease, forgetting, health, history, knowledge, leaders, leadership, life, memory, pandemic, people, poetry, question, questions, reality, repression, security, sleep, society, speaking, speech, stars, state, tree, truth, unknown, violence, wind
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11月 21, 2020

Wei Huan
FOKUS
Für eine Online-Sitzung
richten wir den Raum her,
im Hinblick auf die Projektion
hat unser Büro extra eine
hochauflösunde Kamera installiert.
Wir stellen den Fokus
auf den Chefsessel ein,
suchen dann für uns selber
Plätze wo die Linse nicht hinreicht.
Der Chef kommt herein,
schaut die Kamera an.
„Ich sitz nicht gern im Brennpunkt“,
er rutscht auf die Seite.
Im Fokus sind ein paar Flaschen
stilles Bergbauernwasser.
Übersetzt von MW im November 2020


标签:business, camera, company, 苇欢, internet, leaders, leadership, meeting, meetings, mineral water, NPC, office, online, people, place, places, seat, sitting, Wei Huan, 新世纪詩典
发表在 2010s, 2020, 20th century, 21st century, Middle Ages, NOVEMBER 2020, NPC, OCTOBER 2020, poetry, September 2020, Translations, 新世纪诗典 | Leave a Comment »
3月 13, 2018

Yi Sha
AVANTGARDE
you don’t know it exists
it’s there
you forget about it
it’s there
you use it
it’s there
you betray it
it’s there
it exists apart
from you
May 2016
Translated by MW, Feb. 2018
《先锋》
你不知其有
它在那儿
你忘记其有
它在那儿
你利用它时
它在那儿
你背叛它时
它在那儿
它存在于
你之外
2017/5
Yi Sha
MUST CRY OUT
one person
in his 27 years in power
with his own hands
set in motion 55
big and small political campaigns
plunged his country in misery
made his people suffer to death
when I get to know this information
my mouth stands open
I want to cry: “grandpa!”
I want to cry: “grandma!”
I want to cry: “papa!”
I want to cry: “mama!
I want to cry: “uncle! aunt!”
I need to cry out
for all my relatives
all my seniors in my relatives
I want to tell them:
you had it so hard
in your generation
I forgive you everything
May 2016
Tr. MW, Feb. 2018
Yi Sha
ICH MUSS EUCH RUFEN
ein mensch
hat in 27 jahren seiner herrschaft
mit eigener hand
55 kleinere und größere
politische kampagnen in gang gesetzt
sein land ins elend gestürzt
sein volk auf den tod zugerichtet
als ich diese nachricht erfahr
bleibt mein mund offen stehen
ich will rufen: “opa!”
will rufen: “oma!”
will rufen: “papa!”
will rufen: “mama!”
will rufen: “onkel! tanten!”
ich muss alle rufen
alle meine verwandten
alle älteren verwandten
ich will ihnen sagen
ihr habt es viel zu schwer,
viel zu schwer gehabt
ich verzeihe euch alles
Mai 2016
Übersetzt von MW im Februar 2016
《深情呼唤》
一个人
在他统治的27年间
亲手发动了55场
大大小小的政治运动
将其国家拖进水火
将其人民朝死里整
——当我得知这条信息
嘴巴张得老大
我想叫一声爷爷
我想叫一声奶奶
我想叫一声爸爸
我想叫一声妈妈
我还想叫一声
大伯、姑妈、舅舅
我想深情呼唤
我所有的亲人
亲人中的长辈
我想对他们说:
你们这辈子
活得太不容易了
我原谅了你们的一切
2016/5

标签:art, avantgarde, chairman, chairperson, country, cry, existence, family, forbears, forgiving, generation, hard, history, leadership, memory, nation, people, person, poetry, politics, reflection, relatives, self, state, translation, yi sha, 伊沙
发表在 1940s, 1949, 1950s, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1960s, 1966, 1970s, 1980s, 1989, 1990s, 19th century, 2000s, 2010s, 2017, 2018, 20th century, 21st century, February 2018, March 2018, May 2016, Middle Ages, NPC, poetry, Translations, Uncategorized, Yi Sha, 伊沙 | Leave a Comment »
9月 13, 2017

Yi Sha
FAITH
New semester has started,
teachers in our department
first have a meeting for everyone,
then one for party members.
In between,
four get kicked out:
one democratic party person,
one Christian,
one Buddhist,
one me.
The Christian one is not very serious
(many Christians in China
aren’t),
so he makes fun of me:
“Only you
have no faith …”
I look askance at him
and tell him slowly:
“What do you think
poetry does for me?”
September 2017
Tr. MW, Sept. 2017
Yi Sha
GLAUBE
zum beginn des neuen semesters
haben die lehrenden im institut
zuerst eine sitzung für alle
dann eine parteisitzung
dazwischen werden vier rausgeschmissen:
einer: demokratische partei,
ein christ,
ein buddhist,
ein ich.
der christ ist nicht ernsthaft
(christen in china
sind oft nicht ernsthaft)
und sagt mir zum spass:
“nur du
hast keinen glauben.”
ich schau ihn schief an,
geb in ruhe zurück:
“was glaubst du,
was poesie für mich ist?”
September 2017
Übersetzt von MW im September 2017
《信仰》
开学料
我院教师
先开全员会
再开党员会
两会之间
滚出来四个人
一个民主党派
一个基督教徒
一个佛教徒
一个我
基督徒不厚道
(中国人信基督
基本不厚道)
拿我打趣道:
"只有你
没信仰⋯⋯"
我斜视之
悠然反问:
"你以为诗歌
对于我是什么?"
2017/9

标签:authority, belief, Buddhists, china, Christians, democracy, democratic parties, denomination, dominance, dominion, faith, history, leadership, meeting, names, party, poetry, politics, question, rights, system, teaching, University, yi sha, 伊沙
发表在 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1966, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 19th century, 2000s, 2017, 20th century, 21st century, poetry, September 2017, Translations, Uncategorized, Yi Sha, 伊沙 | Leave a Comment »