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Bilingual Poem: 《120. Qinghai Lake Nocturne • 青海湖夜曲》

Eric S. Shi 舍予
ARTS o’ MAGAZINE
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3 min readApr 24, 2024

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“120. Qinghai Lake Nocturne”

Stars softly hum the night’s refrain,
The moon slips west, across the plain.
Searching for what time erased,
On paths once trod, now scarcely traced.

Qinghai Lake draped in the night,
A canvas reflecting life’s plight.
Loneliness-filled lover’s song,
A heart’s whimper, pains prolong.

On the crescent, Cloud and Wind convene,
Singing softly, a tender scene.
Their voices float across starry domes,
Stirring dreams where floral roams.

Air and water trade silent sighs,
Lamenting life’s harsh, unyielding ties.
Tears disturb the lake’s calm face,
Ripples form, then interlace.

Through the darkness, helplessness winds,
A serpentine path as fate binds.
Tightly, it holds until dawn’s near,
Wrapping the morning in a veil of fear.

A rising mist cloaks hill and dale,
In morning’s breath, cold and pale.
Memories vast, held in the haze,
Lost in the depth of the foggy maze.

(Note: An AI tool was engaged in advising ways to tweak rhyme details of the above English script to satisfy the author’s preference.)

Aside:

Beneath the moon’s retreat, soft sighs and silent melodies at Qinghai Lake sing of lost paths and old sorrows, mirroring the solitude of souls adrift in time’s vast ocean.

《120. 青海湖夜曲》

星星轻哼着夜曲,
月亮向西山踱去。
各自去寻找,
曾经失落的踪迹。

夜色中的青海湖,
映着人世的苍凉。
寂寞地落款在,
仓央嘉措的情歌里。

风和云坐在弦月上,
低唱着青海湖的夜曲。
歌声飘过星空,
触动了睡莲的梦想。

空中水里,
交换着对身世的感叹。
哭皱了,
倒影水中的涟漪。

无奈,
蜿蜒着向四处弥漫。
浓浓地裹紧了,
行将破晓的晨曦。

缓缓升起的寒雾,
把山川裹进了,
岁月的,
茫茫记忆。

旁白:

月光下,青海湖像在浩瀚的时间中漂泊的孤独,用轻柔的叹息低唱着消逝的过去和古老的悲伤。

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Eric S. Shi 舍予
ARTS o’ MAGAZINE

Founder of the ES&AG AI Art Studio; built AI bots (ESAG, ESNA, ESMC), running the AI Art Studio with these bots; an artist; a poet; with Ph.D. (USA), MBA (UK).