致敬中央公园的街边诗人To A Street Poet in Central Park by Yuan

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Before you read about this new stranger talent I met in New York. Allow me to take a deep breath and read the two following poems for you.

在你开始读我在纽约新遇到的这位陌生天才之前。请允许我深呼吸一下，为你读出以下两首诗。

Whole, Again

再一次，完整

By Ruben 鲁本

Love lost, or love found

爱，丢掉；爱，又或重拾

how I can tell is beyond

我能所识

any thoughts

超越所想

any conceptualization of

超越那些

expectations have left me

对离开而去的期待之解释

feeling like I need

感觉我需更多

more but some how less

但也要更少

I took a flight

我飞离

in the pursuit of curiosity

追寻自己的好奇

the purest of pursuits

好奇中的好奇

one of love

爱的

adventure

奇遇

looking for more

寻觅更多

starting where I know

开始于我熟悉之地

it once was

那曾是

once was in your eyes

曾是你的双眸

once was your head on my pillow

曾是我枕边上你的头

once was the way you hummed

曾是你哼唱的歌声

tucking your hair behind your ear

曾是你藏在耳后的黑丝

so I took off

我逃跑

took flight

我飞离

in pursuit of love

追寻爱

how was I supposed to know

我如何知道

I'd find so much more

我会找到如此之丰盈

a journey into the self

朝向自己内心的旅行

where I once drowned

曾经的所溺之水

I now swim

如今我游泳前行

I came for you

我为你而来

found myself instead

却找到自己

I need more

我需要更多

and got more than I could imagine

所得，超越我能想象之边界

returning me back to me

把自己还给自己

where books in my aisle remind me

廊边的书籍提醒

where their spines reveal

书脊所揭示之地

where the mirror

镜中

shows me the man

映着那个

I once knew

我曾经熟悉的人

where the mirror has

镜子的眼睛

the sore eyes

酸痛不已

or reading into the night

或向着黑夜深深望去

Love lost,

丢了爱

so I may be found. 所以，找回了自己

12/28/21@Central Park

致鲁本 To Ruben

by Yuan

孤寂的诗人

A lonely quiet poet

人潮熙熙攘攘

amidst comings and goings of people

冬日的阴暗

The cloudy winter day

感伤的琴声

The sad music of strings

枯黄的落叶

The yellow autumn leaves

也只不过是陪衬

Are nothing but ornaments

陪衬着诗人的五彩世界

matching poet's five-color world

映衬着诗人的五蕴皆空

mirroring poet's five-Skandhas-emptiness

孤寂的诗人

A lonely poet

独孤

lonely with no others

静寂

quiet with no sounds

2021.12.28

@Central Park

I met Ruben in Central Park. His sky blue typewriter and amazing beard immediately caught my eyes. In front of him, a hardboard said "PICK A TOPIC, GET A POEM".

我是在中央公园遇到的鲁本。他的天蓝色打字机和超炫的胡须立刻就引起了我的注意。在他面前，一块硬纸板上写着“选一个主题，我为你写一首诗”。

As a fellow poet, I couldn't hide my excitement when I read these words for two reasons: 1. in spite of how poetry nowadays has been underrated, someone is doing it on the grassroots level; 2. I could do this with Riddle in different languages back in China, too!

作为同行诗人，当我读到这句话时，我无法掩饰自己的兴奋。原因有两个：一是尽管现在的诗歌一直被低估，但仍然还有人在草根的位置做这件事；二是在中国我也可以用不同的语言和Riddle一起来做这件事！

Well, I sort of did it too here already as the poem "To Ruben" above was written ad lib on the spot, side by side with Ruben. And the poem he wrote for me after I gave him the first line, "love lost, or love found", was just like a poem I could write for myself. Suddenly, our communication was beyond what words could describe. We later talked about how we both hide our emotions and energies behind words or any other literary devices poets use to entertain the common readers.

好吧，其实我在那儿也已经这样做了，因为上面那首“致鲁本”就是我坐在Ruben旁边时，当场即兴创作的。而他为我写的那首诗“失去的爱，或找到的爱”，我只告诉了他诗的第一行应该怎么写，但整首诗就好像我为自己写的一首诗一样。瞬间性地，我们的交流超出了言语所能描述的范畴。我们之后还共同谈论如何将我们的情感和能量蕴藏在文字里面，或者诗人用来娱乐大众读者的其他文学的修辞手法里面。

Ruben had been writing poems in Central Park for only 3 months. Let's all hope when you come to New York, Ruben is still writing poems on this spot every now and then, and let's also hope someday, the poet Ruben could enjoy his loneliness with some good company.

鲁本在中央公园写诗只有三个月。让我们一起希望，当你来到纽约的时候，鲁本他仍然时不时地在这里写诗，也希望有一天，诗人鲁本能和一些好伙伴一起享受他的孤独。

Ruben's Instagram: rdescapado

鲁本的ins: rdescapado

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