Zen Sonnet

时间：2014-09-04 05:31:49

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Zen Sonnet¹

Elizabeth Spires²

It was April and we were reading the book about Zen

you were writing your Zen poems and we were talking

about the moment we were in and I was thinking thoughts

that were not Zen: how I know too much too little to teach you

and then I stepped back from each thought and watched it

disappear a horse without a rider over a sharp-edged horizon.

Spring was a pale shade of yellow a green that kept deepening

there was desire and there was a sense of unfolding and I thought

how we can do anything there is no need for an excess³ of feeling

we can walk through the door that was made for entering and exiting

abandoning the poems that were never ours though we wrote them

to the one who walks into this room when we are gone.

So let us go out into the world and wander a little

beggars with empty bowls in straw hats grass sandals.

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1 sonnet
n.十四行诗
参考例句：
The composer set a sonnet to music.作曲家为一首十四行诗谱了曲。 He wrote a sonnet to his beloved.他写了一首十四行诗，献给他心爱的人。

2 spires
n.（教堂的）塔尖，尖顶( spire的名词复数 )
参考例句：
Her masts leveled with the spires of churches. 船的桅杆和教堂的塔尖一样高。来自《简明英汉词典》 White church spires lift above green valleys. 教堂的白色尖顶耸立在绿色山谷中。来自《简明英汉词典》

3 excess
n.过量，过度；超越；adj.过量的，附加的
参考例句：
He advised his son never to spend in excess of his income.他劝儿子开支不可超过收入。 You're too fat;try and run off all those excess pounds.你太胖了，要跑跑步减肥。