九雁，我想将你种在蓝天

九雁，我想将你种在蓝天

Jiuyan, I’d Like to Have You Planted in the Blue Sky

中文｜白鹤清泉 (Baihe Qingquan)

英译｜周柯楠 (Zhou Kenan)

九雁，一个诗意的村名

你知道我千里之外想什么

Jiuyan, a poetic name of a village

You know what I think thousands of miles away

不想拨动吉他清冷的弦

也不想这样独自彳亍

以免踩痛这些异乡的落寞

I don't want to pluck the cold strings of the guitar

Nor do I want to slowly walk alone like this

So as not to step on the pain of my loneliness in the foreign lands

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南国的海边还是那样苍茫辽远

而我只想，只想在六月

The seaside of the south is still so vast and remote

And I’d like to, I’d just like to in June

在江南成熟的梅子香里

清唱一曲火辣的汨罗花鼓

In the fragrance of ripe plums in the south of the River

Sing a hot tune of Miluo Flower Drum Opera

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街边榕树的长裙着地

已把这个夏季

装点得郁郁葱葱

The long skirts of the street-side banyan trees hanging to the ground

They have decorated this summer

With lush and green

行走于绿茵下神思邈远

温柔滑落的是几行酸楚

I walk under the green and think far away

Gently falling are a few lines of sour tears

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远离了九雁远离了端午

远离了粽叶飘香远离了竞渡龙舟

Away from Jiuyan Village and the Dragon Boat Festival

Away from the fragrance of leaves of zongzi and the dragon boat race

只这样傻傻地看着

看着那长长的绿萝

I’m just looking silly

Looking at the long green trailing plants

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满目绿色激不起半点观赏的情致

鹂鸟的婉鸣比不过九雁的唢呐声声

Full of green cannot stimulate a bit of interest in watching

The graceful singing of the oriole is not as good as the music by the suona in Jiuyan Village

哦，我还是多放牧些白云吧

九雁，我将你种在蓝天里

Oh, I'd better graze more white clouds

Jiuyan, I’ll plant you in the blue sky

这样，我只需闭上一会眼睛

就回到了屋顶飘着青烟的九雁

This way, just by closing my eyes for a while

I can return to Jiuyan Village with smoke floating on the roofs

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故乡九雁

你是我心中的一朵莲

My hometown Jiuyan Village

You are a lotus flower in my heart

我将你种在蓝天

千里万里

一抬头就把你望见

I’ve had you planted in the blue sky

No matter how far away

I can see you as soon as I raise my eyes

（2016年6月15日 June 15th, 2016 ）