中長篇勵志英文詩歌

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  :Morning Song

  Sylvia Plath

  Love set you going like a fat gold watch.

  The midwife slapped your footsoles, and your bald cry

  Took its place among the elements.

  Our voices echo, magnifying your arrival. New statue.

  In a drafty museum, your nakedness

  Shadows our safety. We stand round blankly as walls.

  I'm no more your mother

  Than the cloud that distills a mirror to reflect its own slow

  Effacement at the wind's hand.

  All night your moth-breath

  Flickers among the flat pink roses. I wake to listen:

  A far sea moves in my ear.

  One cry, and I stumble from bed, cow-heavy and floral

  In my Victorian nightgown.

  Your mouth opens clean as a cat's. The window square

  Whitens and swallows its dull stars. And now you try

  Your handful of notes;

  The clear vowels rise like balloons.

  :From The Frontier Of Writing

  The tightness and the nilness round that space

  when the car stops in the road, the troops inspect

  its make and number and, as one bends his face

  towards your window, you catch sight of more

  on a hill beyond, eyeing with intent

  down cradled guns that hold you under cover

  and everything is pure interrogation

  until a rifle motions and you move

  with guarded unconcerned acceleration--

  a little emptier, a little spent

  as always by that quiver in the self,

  subjugated, yes, and obedient.

  So you drive on to the frontier of writing

  where it happens again. The guns on tripods;

  the sergeant with his on-off mike repeating

  data about you, waiting for the squawk

  of clearance; the marksman training down

  out of the sun upon you like a hawk.

  And suddenly you're through, arraigned yet freed,

  as if you'd passed from behind a waterfall

  on the black current of a tarmac road

  past armor-plated vehicles, out between

  the posted soldiers flowing and receding

  like tree shadows into the polished windscreen.

  :Digging

  Between my finger and my thumb

  The squat pen rests; as snug as a gun.

  Under my window a clean rasping sound

  When the spade sinks into gravelly ground:

  My father, digging. I look down

  Till his straining rump among the flowerbeds

  Bends low, comes up twenty years away

  Stooping in rhythm through potato drills

  Where he was digging.

  The coarse boot nestled on the lug, the shaft

  Against the inside knee was levered firmly.

  He rooted out tall tops, buried the bright edge deep

  To scatter new potatoes that we picked

  Loving their cool hardness in our hands.

  By God, the old man could handle a spade,

  Just like his old man.

  My grandfather could cut more turf in a day

  Than any other man on Toner's bog.

  Once I carried him milk in a bottle

  Corked sloppily with paper. He straightened up

  To drink it, then fell to right away

  Nicking and slicing neatly, heaving sods

  Over his shoulder, digging down and down

  For the good turf. Digging.

  The cold smell of potato mold, the squelch and slap

  Of soggy peat, the curt cuts of an edge

  Through living roots awaken in my head.

  But I've no spade to follow men like them.

  Between my finger and my thumb

  The squat pen rests.

  I'll dig with it.