Zhou Xian
SACRIFICE
There are lost lives
bleeding red
looming over
me and my people.
There is a mission
that has to fail
if I do it
with only one life.
Translated by MW, April 2020
Zhou Xian
SACRIFICE
There are lost lives
bleeding red
looming over
me and my people.
There is a mission
that has to fail
if I do it
with only one life.
Translated by MW, April 2020
标签:blood, color, dead, deaths, fate, history, lives, looming, memory, mission, nation, NPC, people, poetry, sacrifice, task, thing, Zhou Xian, 周献, 新世纪詩典
发表在 2020, 20th century, 21st century, April 2020, NPC, poetry, Translations, Uncategorized, 新世纪诗典 | Leave a Comment »
Dong Yue
DREAM
Dreamt I was trying
the biggest criminal case
in all of China.
The face of the guy was a blur,
man or woman, you couldn’t know.
But it was so much money,
so many lives
whirling like blood-red snowflakes
in this dream.
April 2019
Translated by MW, June 2019
标签:blood, case, court, dance, Dong Yue, dream, fate, history, judge, lives, memory, money, NPC, red, snow, 新世纪詩典, 东岳
发表在 2019, 20th century, 21st century, April 2019, June 2019, Middle Ages, NPC, poetry, Translations, Uncategorized, 新世纪诗典 | Leave a Comment »