双照楼

Standing on Double Illuminated Chamber

By Bai Hua

In 1944，Japan. It was almost a spring with snow fine,
Why, why ever nice-looking the plum blossom was!
More modest was the patient with shame,
or whatever one day in Hangzhou from memory?
It was drizzling,  a spring outing you were making
--little aunt, her figure vanished in spring water.

Painful is youth; painful is tenderness;
in Nagoya, breezes cared for fallen petals, rains for budding shoots,
like in River South, a new atmosphere...

Flamed chinaware, bad national events...
Upside down the era, down upon our life!
"With bare hands, a lionheart want to unify the whole state."
Many years later, on Double Illuminated Chamber. He said
to draw water with a wicker basket, day after day
the excellent of my poems, the excellent of voidness.

May 23, 2013 / translated by Chen Zihong

登双照楼

柏桦

1944年，日本细雪若春，
为何？为何梅花惊艳！
是那含羞的病人愈发谦逊，
忆起了杭州的一天？
烟雨里，你在探春
——小姑姑鬟影落春澜。

剧痛，年轻；剧痛，温柔；
在名古屋，风惜残红，雨培新绿，
又是一番江南天气……

瓷器窑变，国运乱变……
光景颠倒，人命关天！
“志士无一物，欲使天下一。”
多年后，双照楼上，他说
竹篮打水，日复一日
诗的风姿也是空的风姿

注释一：“小姑姑鬟影落春澜”出自汪精卫诗歌《晓烟》：初阳如月逗轻寒，咫尺林原成远看。记得江南烟雨里，小姑鬟影落春澜。（见汪精卫《双照楼诗词稿》）
注释二：“风惜残红，雨培新绿，又是一番江南天气。”出自汪精卫诗词《探春慢》：风惜残红，雨培新绿，又是一番天气。浅草鸣蛙，浮萍聚鸭，各有十分生意。谁道春归了，看满眼芳菲如此。空怜啼鴂多情，声声为春憔悴。（见汪精卫《双照楼诗词稿》）
注释三：“志士无一物，欲使天下一。”出自胡兰成题词（参见胡兰成《心经随喜》，小北译，如果出版事业股份有限公司，大雁出版基地，2012，第60页）。

2013-5-23