Three Poems by Lee Kuei-shien（Taiwan）台灣李魁賢詩三首

Flowers Offering 獻花

Bangladesh was new born
during the independence war in 1971,
three millions soldiers bled into the land,
their heroic souls brighten the sky.

The National Martyrs’ Memorial
has been maintaining the historical witness.
My poem “The Elegy in Bangladesh”
written in 1974 as a record document.

My first program arrived at Dhaka is
flowers offering to the warriors for independence,
since independence is the common language
in the first lesson of national poets.

The spire monument erects shining with sun and moon,
one hundred acres of wilderness for souls to wander.
I open boundless poetical space
being the fermenter for willing of Taiwan Independence.

Migratory Birds in Campus 校園候鳥

The natural ecological lake in campus
accommodates migratory birds from Siberia
coming in flocks and
leaving one group after another group,
attracting the mass to watch
their left shadows.

Under the banyan canopy in the university
I recite my poem “Resident Bird”
for the migratory birds loving students.
In the lake gradually empty out
what left behind to bloom in silence
is the red lotus one by one.

Shaheed Minar* 孟加拉紀念碑

In front of the Martyr Monument
the youths sing in praise of peace,
the children paint their vision in competition.
Our tour guide Khan surprises to find
the design of 228 badge on my hat,**
the sad memorable happenings in different countries.
Half century after the liberation of Bangladesh
the butcher committed crime in murdering Moslems***
was eventually sentenced to death.
The belated justice represents
a substantial justice in Bangladesh.
In my home country Taiwan
how to write the justice is still unknown.
On Martyr Monument Square
sun shines brilliantly
spreading on bright good earth,
over the smiling faces of Bengali people.

*The Shaheed Minar (Martyr Monument) is a national monument in Dhaka,
established to commemorate those killed by the East Pakistan government, in
the event of Bengali Language Movement demonstrations of 1952.
**228 incident, also known as February 28 Massacre, was an anti-government
uprising in Taiwan, happened on Feb. 28, 1947.
***On 28 February 2013, the tribunal sentenced Delwar Hossain Sayeedi to death
by hanging for two charges among the eight committed during the Liberation
War of Bangladesh in 1971.

獻花

1971年獨立戰爭
產生孟加拉
三百萬勇士血流落土地
英雄神魂予天頂見光明

獨立戰爭烈士紀念碑
永遠做歷史見證
我於1974年留落來
〈孟加拉悲歌〉詩做紀錄

親身到孟加拉頭一個行程
向獨立戰士獻花致敬
因為獨立是詩人共同語言
詩人公民的第一課

尖形碑高高高佮日月共光
四十外甲曠野給神魂優遊自在
我拍開無限的詩空間
釀造台灣獨立願望的酒槽

校園渡鳥

大學自然生態埤子
接受西伯利亞渡鳥
結群飛來
一批一批飛走
吸引大家來觀賞
留落來的影

在大學大欉榕樹跤
念我的詩〈留鳥〉
予愛護渡鳥的學生聽
在漸漸放空的埤子內
留落來恬寂寂
開出一蕊一蕊紅蓮花

孟加拉紀念碑

烈士紀念碑前
青年在歌唱和平
兒童在寫生比賽央望
導遊可汗奇怪我圓帽子頂
228徽章的設計
哀傷的紀念意義在國際並行
孟加拉獨立壯舉中
屠夫對穆斯林開殺戒的罪行
經過半世紀才判處死刑
遲到的正義
在孟加拉還是表現出實質正義
在我祖國台灣
正義猶不知欲安怎寫
烈士紀念廣場
日頭光燦燦
普照在美麗土地
孟加拉人的笑面頂

註：2013年2月28日，孟加拉穆斯林政黨領袖胡賽殷．薩伊池
（Delwar Hossain Sayeedi）被孟加拉國際犯罪法庭，以1971年
獨立建國期間協助巴基斯坦政府軍所犯暴行、謀殺、虐待人民
的罪名，宣判死刑。這項判決引起歡呼正義得到伸張的一方，
佮支持薩伊池的另外一方相爭，致使首都達卡街頭暴動。

Lee Kuei-shien was born in 1937 and has published 62 poetry books in different languages, including Mandarin, Japanese, English, Portuguese, Mongol, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, French, Korean, Bengali, Serbian, Turkish, Albanian, Arabic, German and Hindi. His achievement in poetry creation has been awarded internationally in India, Mongolia, Korea, Bangladesh, Macedonia, Peru, Montenegro, Serbia and USA.

李魁賢出生於1937年，已出版62本不同語言的詩集，包括華語、日語、英語、葡萄牙語、蒙古語、羅馬尼亞語、俄語、西班牙語、法語、韓語、孟加拉語、塞爾維亞語、土耳其語、阿爾巴尼亞語、阿拉伯語德語和印地語。他的詩歌創作成就獲得印度、蒙古、韓國、孟加拉、馬其頓、秘魯、蒙特內哥羅、塞爾維亞和美國等國際獎項。
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