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Showing posts with label 寫作. Show all posts

Monday, June 1, 2026

Dreams

 I have translated the lyrics of a Hong Kong song from Cantonese to English:

Dreams


Beautiful scene is still on stage.

Life’s boulevard is laid far away.

Buddies are by your side always.

Here I am, a dream ever lie.


I dream to be reunited, then there’s a place we’ll find each other.

I dream to be delighted, then I chase it at my own pace.

I believe what I do is right.

Dreams won’t be out of sight.


I’m sure one day dreams will come true.

Though the world is cruel, I can go through.

Even life is as usual days after days.

Some day, dreams will be truly shown on the way.


As long as the ending is not yet said.



The original lyrics:



唱:林憶蓮

作詞:林夕

作曲:許願 黃偉年

編曲:潘漢偉



最美一幕 還未閉幕

最闊的路在塵世遠方

最好知己永在身旁

聽我講 我從不説謊


我想相聚 誰便再聚

我想歡樂 便隨意去追

我想相信我做得對

想到人極疲纍


我自信有日如願

縱使天高地厚仍被我逆轉

假使一生會沒了沒完

總有日會如願


當結局未揭穿

Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Love coincidences

Translated the lyrics of a Hongkongese song "痴情意外" into English:

Love coincidences


Echo of tides comes and goes.

Memories in my inner soul.

Left behind (a) few episodes.

Changes…, choices…, unfold…

Please tell me if it’s you?

Should I stay and not to say no.

Chasing true love yet there’s a distance.

Just (at) that moment, (l) scared to be loved.

May be love is just a wrong coincidence.

Cease it, then it comes again


If the future can be seen,

no one will be afraid of change.

For those loves that passed by,

receding in my mind.

Please tell me if it’s you?

Should I stay and not to say bye,

Chasing true love yet there’s a distance.

Just (at) that moment, so uncertain

May be love is just a wrong coincidence.

Cease it, then it comes again


Scaring of love that cannot go on.

May be that is a quiz of love.

Flashing feelings in a wrong coincidence.

How can love be summoned?



The melody:


Hongkongese version:

https://youtu.be/K8RwhBUZRcI?si=oDFdEMovE5nBycAe


Japanese version:

https://youtu.be/w91AArfmkGs?si=gi0feppx0kfoXWO_



The original lyrics:


痴情意外


作詞:潘源良/時葆茵     作曲:玉置浩二


潮聲浪聲去又來

前事降在我心靈內

留低是瑣碎片段

變幻決擇無奈

未知道 可應該

留住你不必再分開

碰到真情誰願拒人千里外

不過這刻怕被熱愛

也許癡情全是惱人的意外

剛停住它卻又來


如可預知到未來

誰又會害怕它變改

留不住的每段情

心中偏不放開

未知道 可應該

留住你不必再分開

碰到真情誰願拒人千里外

不過這刻怕被熱愛

也許癡情全是惱人的意外

剛停住它卻又來


心仍然是怕情不永在

不過也許這就是愛

到底癡情全是惱人的意外

怎能預知道未來



Friday, April 4, 2025

Misty moon

 


This is a painting at Scarborough Art Gallery. It inspires me to write the following poem:

Misty moon


Among the misty trees,

moonlight penetrates far and near.

A night street tuned foggy green

contrasts to two windows afar with brown yellow gleams.

Rain seems gone, its trace on the ground is a hint.

Silently, it mirrors the time unseen.


Being a lonely child at the scene,

I walk slowly to my destiny

while the moon shines through the trees.

Her grace melts me into the atmosphere.

Gradually, the air is full of memories.

Life can be serious but not to me.

The road is slippery but I won’t be interfered.

Every single footstep is still light and free.


Moon, please answer me.

Why are you here?

My story is just ordinary.

My way home becomes a fantasy

as your light silvers everything I see.

Soon, my mind is clear.

It’s you who create this masterpiece

and you let me be part of it.

Saturday, January 18, 2025

疏離


世界大事風雲色變的發生

個人小事也慢慢的進行

移居在小村落,用另一種語文

彷彿失去了存在感


活在平行時空有幸有不幸

像在結界中的游魂

感覺不是實在的一個人

蝴蝶效應常來臨

遠方的一些聲音

這邊引起段段疑魂

不同的意見在紛陳

可以置身事外,也可以關心

細碎的思緒在浮沉

Wednesday, January 8, 2025

A New Year Poem

It’s a new year.

As usual, everyone says, “Cheers!”

Though what ahead is not quite clear

As last year’s wishes disappear

New plans are set in January

One! Two! Three! … Let’s do it!

Someday, they can be accomplished.

At least, that’s what we believe.

It goes round and round every year

and keep us high in spirit!

No harm anyway as long as we are happy.

Make a wish for you and me.

Then, next year, we still say, “Cheers!”

instead of “Oh! What a pity!”.

Monday, November 18, 2024

Your Face

Translate a Taiwanese song into English. Just the meaning. Cannot match the melody.


把「你的樣子」譯成英文,只是意譯,未能配合旋律。


原曲 /the original song: 

https://youtu.be/tqolealpkXg?si=QInkuyyzLuSsPIii 



Your Face


I hear one's whisper from far behind.

Like a stream crying in a dream.

I see one's footsteps leaving bits and pieces

blocking the miserable eyes while saying goodbye.

Don't understand why you let dust fall onto your face.

Blurring a long forgotten world that once has your name......has my singing......


That sad song persisting in a dream always wakes me up so clear

murmuring a bit about the miserable past.

Wind has dried the tears, then, one with a hollow shadow turns around with ease.

Don't understand why all sophistication cannot melt your face.

Is it because tomorrow's fate coming too late?

Days after days, withered is your smile and so is my mind.


Unchanged is you, standing firmly in a windy time passage.

Clever child, holding a fragile lantern.

Careless is you, let hidden love fire into traces of memory.

Lonely child, you are the beloved one in Creator's eyes.


I hear one's whisper from far behind.

Like a stream crying in a dream.

I see one's footsteps leaving bits and pieces

blocking the miserable eyes while saying goodbye.

Don't understand why you let dust fall onto your face.

Blurring a long forgotten world that once has your name......has my singing......


Unchanged is you, standing firmly in a misty time passage.

Clever child, holding your favourite lantern.

Careless is you, let hidden love fire into traces of memory.

Lonely child, you are the beloved one in Creator's eyes.

Monday, November 4, 2024

Hairy Ovals

 

Here's a curtain of hairy ovals

that stand still to view the water over.

Bird comes and goes as the water shivers.

They don't bother all these strange viewers.

Spreading their wings to show how lovely are their feathers.

Resting here and there from winters to summers.


(Inspired by the scenery at the Attenborough Nature Reserve.)

Once in a while

Grey is the sky, or may be blue.

Not sure, is it you?

A blue bird flies across my mind

and traces various ideas so cool.

You leave clues for me to explore as far as I could.

Please visit again whenever the sky turns blue.


(On that day, the sky was grey but had sunshine once in a while.)

Friday, April 19, 2024

Last night and the meaning of life

 I was sick and could not sleep well last night. Then, I thought about what is the meaning of life and concluded to the following points:


- love (love and being love)

- explore and learn (the growth of knowledge and ability)

- support others

- create (the process of creation is happy and satisfactory. Created something unique makes your life different from others.)


Then, I thought about how illness affects the meaning of life in the above points.


Also, how the outside environment like social instability, war, immigration, freedom, poverty … affects the meaning of life.


So, that was last night.

Tuesday, December 26, 2023

2024

A poem for 2024

Whether you like it or not

The world is still in chaos

Wandering in a dark corridor

An angel flickers across

and sprinkles words on your accord:

Sometimes you may get lost

but at Two O Two Four

Get back to the right from the wrong

Believe at the end of darkness is dawn

From the day you were born

You have the talent to reform

Be brave and carry on

Embrace the new year in a song

with a voice loud and strong

La~ La~…. Two O Two Three has gone

La~ La~…. here comes Two O Two Four

La~ La~…. you deserve much much more

La~ La~…. wait and see what’s going on

La~ La~….



Sunday, May 7, 2023

Border line

A poem about my cancer condition:


Border line

I’m on a border line.
Neither in the high risk side,
nor in the low risk side.

I’m on a border line.
It implies I can be fine
but I may also die.

Not totally have peace of mind.
Somehow, God is kind.
Thank for the test of genetic science,
Harsh treatment can be declined.

I’m on a border line.
It’s a lesson in life.
Get lost sometimes
but miracle can arise.

Tuesday, April 25, 2023

The child

忽然靈光一閃,把葉德嫻赤子一曲,填上英文歌詞: 

The child


Reaching far and near. Cities winding up and down.
How can broken routes have an ending.
Try’in here and there. Trapp’in red, red, green, green lights.
Long night’s blue and who’s with you.

Amid laughs and tears, dizzing fizzing around.
Eternity is just like a spark.
Amid warm and cold, closer or split apart,
Growing up, it’s hard to stay long.

One life with just one child. The hearts beat side by side.
Like two strangers, yet close if it’s far apart.
One life have many ones? Loving you is that one.
That’s for this deep love, then regret.

Both are quite confused, cannot clearly express
the love between you, you…and me.

When the world’s so cold, who will take out both arms?
Circles you’n form warm streams again.


One life with just one child. The hearts beat side by side.
Like two strangers, yet close if it’s far apart.
One life have many ones? Lov’in you is that one.
That’s for this deep love, then regret.

Amid chit and chat, once was nice and glad.
How come aged it’s another world.
From the day you’re born, the world seems too wide……
the child inside is fading away……

Sunday, January 1, 2023

2023

Happy New Year!
Two O Two Three
Chaos there, chaos here.
Everything is not so clear.
There may be tears,
but we won’t be feared.
We can conquer Two O Two Three!

Friday, February 5, 2021

薄冰上的迷思




















如履薄冰

    身   輕
    心   清

此刻風景
   凋零
   豐盛
   V形
   莫明

冰裂 目定
冰破 飄零
    身   輕
    心   清
屏息   回應
描畫路徑
一步一驚
展現機靈
跨越險境