Walking Leisurely Around Cornwall Park

-- Poetry by Peter Huang

I walk leisurely around Cornwall Park,
The trees, here and there, big or small, form into 
A shady forest, decorated with winding concrete paths,
The thick, green grass covers the ground like
A huge unbroken carpet upon which,
I wish I were as complacent as those sheep and cows,
Sleeping soundly when the soft spring wind caresses me.
And into the arms of the blue sky and the patchy clouds high above,
I smell the green grass, the fragrance of flowers unknown to me.
I then could be as happy as those sheep and cows,
And my heart and mind immune to death, worries,
Or even free of the annoying, regrettable memories.

I walk into the cherry trees, each topped with blossoms,
Like a young lady holding a pink parasol.
The gleeful voice of children running among them,
The whisperings of lovers sitting under.
All that is not disturbing, but reminiscent of bygone days,
Of how it felt, and days used to be,
When you walked by my side, hand in hand with me.

I walk around Cornwall Park, happy and complacent,
The park lays out grass carpet for me,
The cherry trees stand in rows,
Holding up parasols for me.
The children's voice gleeful;
Lovers' whisperings reminiscent of those old days.

Auckland, Oct 12,2018

= 在空臥公園閒逛= 中譯: Peter Huang

我在空臥公園閒逛
到處林立的樹,大的小的形成
一片林蔭的森林,蜿蜒的水泥小路點綴其間.
厚厚的青草鋪蓋著大地,宛如
一大張無接縫的地毯,
我願像那些在草地上的牛羊一樣志得意滿.
在溫柔春風的拂摸下熟睡,
熟睡在藍天和高掛在上空的朵朵白雲的懷裏,
我聞到青草味,和許多不知名的花兒的芳香.
然後,我便能夠像那些牛羊般快樂
我的心和思慮便能免於死亡和煩憂
甚至也能遠離那惱人又令人懊惱的記憶裡的陳年往事

我走進櫻花林,
每株櫻花樹頭上都頂著一片櫻花,
宛如一位年輕的女孩撐起一隻粉紅色的陽傘,
在樹林裡跑來跑去,孩童快活的聲音,以及
坐在樹下情人的卿卿私語,
都不擾人,徒令我想起那些逝去的日子
想起那時心中的感覺,和昔日,

想起那時你我手牽著手,

並肩散步的日子

我在空臥公園裡到處閒逛,
快樂又志得意滿.
公園為我舖蓋青草的地毯,
櫻花樹站立成列,為我撐起陽傘.
孩童歡樂的聲音,
情人們的低語, 都令我
想起往日.

後記: 本詩英譯成中文減弱了原英文詩中浪漫派詩人Wordsworth所說的"強烈感情自然流露"(the spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling)的感覺.詩的翻譯在中英語文間的鴻溝確實不易填平的.