英诗原创| Murmurations

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此次林苑君选取了班戈大学英语文学院诗人许景城的原创英文诗"Murmurations"。该诗是诗人2016年3月16日傍晚时分与好友一起去北威尔士著名康威城镇的环岛自然保护区观看欧椋鸟。随着英国天气逐渐变暖，成千上万甚至上百万的欧椋鸟从欧洲大陆迁徙到英伦岛上。诗人观察细致入微，着重在视觉、听觉角度上刻画了鸟旋飞变化多端的阵型，以及声音的模仿。原诗共十四行，通过两个长句和一个短句组成，不仅契合了欧椋鸟复杂多变的飞行轨迹，也将人"we"藏在了这自然声形之中，反映了现实中观察者在这震感的壮美之中，显得渺小，具有浓厚的生态意味。此外，诗人的这首诗还分别得到了班戈大学英语文学院Andrew Webb副教授的好评和修改建议。同时诗人于2016年6月24日在法国南部城市Perpignan参加国际生态诗学学术会议期间就此诗向会议主旨发言人美国当代著名诗人Linda Hogan请教，得到了Hogan的高度赞扬，同时在她细心指导和建议下，进行了修改。所以，此诗共有三个版本，各版本具有不同的诗意和蕴含。班戈大学孔子学院刘华义教授提供自拍视频，班戈大学孔子学院老师史梦楠和许景城提供图片。特此感谢。

https://v.qq.com/txp/iframe/player.html?vid=a1304e1mrry&width=500&height=375&auto=0

（摄/刘华义）

英诗原创

MurmurationsBy 许景城 （Peter Jingcheng Xu）

Starlings swiftly flew after their evening roosts,

shuttling between east and west, north and south,

in varied shapes - triangle, oval, cone -

recognizable merely from a far distance,

curving, hovering, thickening, hissing, swirling, wheeling

around the sky like a huge nimble black rattlesnake.

Their murmurations were so amazing and touching

that we, standing on the islet replete with reeds,

found that our murmuration of voices and souls

was resuscitated, drowned and gyred deeper and deeper

into invisible air corridors higher and higher

that led to the unknown, a soundless and vast darkness

eroding the sheet where the sun was setting. Then,

they swooped back to roost, silence was regained and dreams mellowed.

Written in Doctoral Study Room, Bangor University

17-03-2016

Andrew Webb建议缩减版

MurmurationsBy 许景城 （Peter Jingcheng Xu）

Starlings lift from their evening roosts

shuttling east to west, north to south

a black rattle snake.

We, standing on the reedy islet,

found a soundless dark

that rusted the iron sheet where the sun had burned a hole. 

Rewritten in School of English Literature, Bangor University

14-04-2016

Linda Hogan编辑版

MurmurationsBy 许景城 （Peter Jingcheng Xu）

Starlings swiftly flew after their evening roosts,

shuttling between east and west, north and south,

in varied shapes

recognizable from a far distance,

curving, hovering, wheeling

around the sky like a nimble black rattlesnake.

Their murmurations touching us

standing on the islet replete with reeds,

our own murmuration of voices and souls

was resuscitated and gyred deeper and deeper

into invisible air corridors higher and higher

that led to the unknown, soundless and vast darkness

eroding the sheet where the sun was setting. Then,

they swooped back to roost, silence regained and dreams mellowed.

Re-edited in University of Perpignan, France

24-06-2016

（摄/许景城、史梦楠）

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