诗人曰：群星之天树，悬挂湿润蓝夜之果Sudeep Sen

海外文苑

The above was published in New York Newspaper 'Compact News' edition#882

本期发刊纽约《综合新闻报》第882期

汉译：佩英（Translated by Christine Chen）

绘画：梅兰吉兹·塔莱伊扎德（Mehrangiz Talaiezadeh

苏迪普·森(Sudeep Sen) 印度英语诗人、翻译家与学者，现任旁遮普大学教授、南非威特沃特斯兰德大学访问研究员及APWT联合主席，曾任哈佛访问学者。他出版《Postmarked India》《Aria》《Anthropocene》等获奖诗集，获A.K. Ramanujan翻译奖与泰戈尔文学奖，《Red and Rock》完成生态三部曲，并活跃于国际诗歌与摄影领域。
Sudeep Sen is an Indian English-language poet, translator, and scholar. He is currently Professor of Practice in the Department of English & Cultural Studies at Panjab University, Chandigarh; Visiting Research Associate at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg; and Co-Chair of the Asia-Pacific Writers & Translators (APWT). He was formerly a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University.He has published several award-winning poetry collections, including Postmarked India, Aria, and Anthropocene. He is the recipient of the A.K. Ramanujan Translation Award and the Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize. His work Red and Rock completes his ecological trilogy, and he remains active in international poetry and photography.

我亲密的天空

——引詹姆斯·乔伊斯《尤利西斯》

“群星之天树，悬挂湿润蓝夜之果。”

针孔般光束，钻石的锋芒
微明于无垠清夜。
高原稀树草原之上
群星如目，点亮我亲密、辽阔的天空
变动天幕，书写大地史迹。
这片化石怀抱的地貌DNA
隐喻中折射宇宙之光。
宇宙钟表严密计量
光之频率、波长与强度。
天文之语缓缓铺展
黑岩天幕上测绘星辰记忆。
如海图标记不可预知的航道。
记忆，即星光。

MY INTIMATE SKIES

The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
— James Joyce, Ulysses

Pin-hole sharp rays, exact as chiselled diamond tips,
glow in infinite lumens. In this sprawling crisp-dry

Savannah highveld — these luminous eyes, light up
my vast intimate skies, writing out terrestrial

histories on an ever-shifting skyscape. Within
its private metaphors, this fossil-cradled terrain-DNA

refracts. The cosmic clockwork measures exactly,
each light-ray’s frequency, wave-length and laser-

strength. It is astronomy’s language, a slow charting
of celestial memory on granite-black backdrop —

a plotted canvas, a maritime mapping of ocean’s
unpredictable trade lanes. Memory is starlight.


裂开的化石
——致 威廉·博斯霍夫

远古岩石裂开，
树与天骤然映入裂面，
地质深处的剧烈回声。
化石的纹理，如掌中脉络，
封存着不可尽读的时间史。
以指尖抚过裂痕，
触及彩色丝网般的刻线与纵横交错，
宇宙与地质共同书写的历法，
幽微而难以定序。
矿物的表皮剥落、折射、散光，
光在其间裂解为角形光束，
离心之彩。
凝视却愈发内敛，
中心处静止。
一个无形支点维系此情此景，
毫秒间闪现的影像序列，
缓然崩解。

SPLIT FOSSIL
for Willem Boshoff

When an ancient-rock splits open —
trees and skies starkly mirror

the tectonic drama on the stone’s gaping
weathered face. Fossils’ imprinted

striations, like those on a human palm,
preserve histories — cellular intricacies

only palaeontologists can decode.
As I run my hand on its cracked

surface — my fingers trace a filigree
of coloured lace-lines, cross-etchings —

clues to cosmic-geological calendars,
largely indeterminate. Mineral patina

exfoliates, reflects, refracts — splitting light —
angular shafts of coloured cones

radiating centrifugally. My focus stays
centred, centripetal. An invisible fulcrum

balances this mis-en-scene — unravelling
a slide-show, in millisecond flashes.
在开始之前
——致 理查德·福布斯

见你收集岩石深红如香液，
淡血色沉入粉色石中，静静回旋。
见卡拉哈里砂岩的石英光泽，
沙漠之珠，带入大地、清水与光的静域。
在你尚未打磨、塑形之前，
这些承载历史的石块已被安置，
无序，却自有潜流。
见隐秘的编码与层理，
如形、重与色构成的地质图谱。
并列无意，却闪烁银色微点，
自粗砺表面缓缓剥落。
尚未开始，诗意已成，
深埋于古老大陆的骨骸与化石中。
今日，苏醒，
在新的手与新的眼中重写故事。
石之艺术与刻石之文同声低唱，
一首来自“开始之前”的远古之歌。

BEFORE THE BEGINNING
for Richard Forbes

I see the deep red of attar in rocks you have gathered —
the colour of pale blood buried in pink stone, ruminating.

I see the glazed quartzite of Kalahari — jewels of the desert —
brought here to this vast serenity of earth, water, light.

Before you start grinding, shaping them into your own
narratives, you arrange the colony of history-soaked stones

in no particular pattern. But I see a coded striated matrix —
mapping an architecture of shapes, weights, hues.

Lying side by side, with no seeming purpose or quest —
luminous silver specks, flaking off jagged stone surfaces.

Even before you begin, there is poetry in these assemblages —
stories embedded, hidden from the human eye, buried deep

in this old continent’s fossils and bones. Today, they are alive
again — new stories sculpted by fresh hands, eyes, minds.

Stone-art and stone-etched text, slow-sing simultaneously —
a song for our ancestors, from before the beginning.


光之源

描摹宇宙之轮廓，
深入浓黑之处。
彗星长发般的轨迹，
钻石的星芒之矢，
试图标定光之源。
无罗盘，无望远镜，
无现代器械，
可解星系之秘。
唯以想象之无垠，
逼近光的诞生。
星辰长久隐匿其光，
只示其消逝之末端，
微颤之梦。
眼球之镜中折射。
继而碎裂，
转如螺旋之焰，
骤然绽放。

ORIGIN OF LIGHT

I trace the contours of the cosmos,
plumb its depths of dense darkness.

Witch-haired asteroid-streaks —
diamond-pointed starlight shafts —

try to pin-locate light’s primal source.
I do not have a compass or telescope

or any modern instrumentation
to deconstruct galactic mysteries.

I use my mind’s limitless imagination —
to reach the origin of illumination.

Stars’ unique astral ability to seemingly
withhold light for millions of years —

letting us see only its fading tip,
its last journey, its flickering REM

refracting in our tissue-lens irises.
Then the lumen-fractions split open —

wild, spooling, helical light-bursts.


碳

黑碳盈光，
若你能见其羞涩。
白色之路，
在于奴役诸色——
折射间，白光迸裂。
钻石晶体闪耀，
陨星之痕划过，
纳秒之光凝固于虚空。

CARBON

Dark carbon brims with light
if you can see its shyness.

The way of whiteness
is to enslave colours —

a refraction and white explodes.
Diamond-crystals spark

meteor-trails — nanosecond
flashes frozen in space.


掘

——四行诗
缓缓淘洗骨骸，如人淘金。
与星辰对话，解宇宙之码。
寻溯祖先，绘自身谱系。
我掘——此乃一场求索：过去、当下与未来。

DIG
four monostiches

I slow-scour for bones — as some do for gold.

I speak with the stars — to decipher cosmic codes.

I seek my ancestors — to map my own genealogy.

I dig — it is a quest — for past’s present & future.


星线

远古之光，连缀遥远群星，
激光掠空。
彗尾纷飞，划过炽亮行星。
星轨无形，肉眼难见。
希腊之名与草书符号，
编入天体古老历法。
以指尖书写宇宙，
文字与旋律并生。
星际银丝系星成章，
突触震颤，
新文诞生。

STARLINES

Ancient light connects far-flung stars —
laser-streaks scanning space

create starlines our eyes cannot detect.
Flurry-trails of flying comets trace

incandescent planets, luminous shapes
with Greek names and cursive symbols —

almanac’s grand terrestrial repository.
With my fingertips, I write, etching

on this canvas — text, notes, lyrics —
a cosmic score. Interstellar silver-strings,

planetary signatures binding constellations.
Synapses vibrate, birthing new scripts.


双鸟

追随雨燕与燕子、椋鸟与麦鸡
在天际划出的弧线。
清秋初凉，
繁复如丝的轨迹，
以鸟鸣织出世界纹理。
想象自身亦为双鸟之一，
横越两半球天空，
栖于无名之天。
无既定路径，
唯循风流转。
湖上蓝翡翠与翠鸟悬停，
金属光泽的椋鸟微闪；
白鸥远在开普海岸，
随摩羯潮汐起伏。
它们不占有天空，
只令天空丰盈。
无宏大设计，
唯恒久之形。
连巨嘴鸟亦失其炽，
在双鸟的柔影之舞中，
飞成不可名状的曲线。
每日测绘变色都天空，
星穹深蓝压境。
吾乃尘微一点，
而双鸟——
我心之两瓣。

TWO BIRDS

I trail the slow-swerving arcs
traced by swifts and swallows,

by starlings and lapwings.
In this sharp pre-autumnal air,

their intricate filigree-weaves
map our world with birdsong.

I imagine I am a pair of these birds —
soaring across two hemispheres

in their own private skies, flying
unplanned routes, charting

the flow of foreign trade-winds.
Over the lakes, they see hovering

blue rollers and kingfishers, even
an iridescent gloss-metal starling

longing for her faraway consort —
a milk-white seagull on the Cape’s

winding shores, keeping time with
Capricorn’s sharp ebbs and eddies.

They do not conquer the skies,
they imbue them with richness —

these are not grand designs,
they’re simple everlasting patterns.

Even the lion-hearted red-beaked
toucan pales next to this

duo’s pastel grace — their ballet
inking flight’s impossible curvatures.

Every day, I map these chameleon
skies, refracting their colour-play.

Here, the astral-skies prevail —
their deep deep-dark, their hint of

cosmic-blue, overriding all shades.
I am a mere speck in this infinite

supernova — and the two birds,
my heart’s auricle and ventricle.


鸟
——俳句

湛蓝垂睑的海鸥
凝望红唇蓝鸟——
爱意无声。


AVIAN
haiku

azure-blue lidded
seagull — gazing at a red-
lipped blue-bird, in love


鸟语

——引克洛德·莫奈

“我愿以鸟之歌方式作画。”

以鸣啭解读鸟语，
在其“推特”中辨识世界。
感受羽翼轻颤，
聆听低声絮语；
以心之目，
分辨绒羽色泽。
蓝鸟、红鸟、海鸥，
跨越半球与海岸而至，
随想象之召唤飞行。
无需通关与许可，
凭本能起航，
浮身于天空中的方言。


BIRD LANGUAGE

I would like to paint
the way a bird sings.
— Claude Monet

I decipher bird language
through their tweets —

decoding their twitter.
I feel their feathers ruffle,

hear their slow whispers,
grade their plumule colours,

cup their pliant bodies
with my heart’s mind.

Blue birds, red birds,
seagulls readily visit me

across hemispheres,
continents and shores —

flying spontaneously
at my imagination’s call.

No airport clearances,
they fly on instinct,

buoyant on their
own airborne dialect.
诗歌赏析：
苏迪普·森这组诗以“光、石、星、鸟”为核心意象群，构建出一个跨越地质、宇宙与心灵经验的诗性系统，呈现出鲜明的当代英语诗歌气质。其语言融合科学隐喻与感性凝视，将天文测量、地质纹理与身体感知并置，使自然不再是背景，而成为可被阅读与书写的“宇宙文本”。在结构上，诗歌多采用短行切割与意象跳跃，形成一种类似“碎片化星图”的节奏，既强化了视觉张力，也增强了哲学深度。
　　其优点在于意象高度纯化、空间感强烈、跨学科融合自然，展现出对时间、物质与意识关系的持续追问。
　　总体而言，这是一种“凝视型宇宙抒情”，在冷静中蕴含灵性扩张。他深邃的余元凝练的风格颇有中国诗人屈原“路漫漫其修远兮，吾将上下而求索”的影子，体现出对存在、宇宙与自我之间永恒探寻的诗性精神。（佩英）

Editorials:
Sudeep Sen's poems constructs a poetic system that spans geological, cosmic, and inner human experience, with “light, stone, stars, and birds” as its core imagery cluster, presenting a distinctly contemporary mode of English-language poetry. The language integrates scientific metaphor with perceptual contemplation, juxtaposing astronomical measurement, geological textures, and bodily sensation, so that nature is no longer a background but becomes a readable and writable “cosmic text.”
Formally, the poems employ short-line fragmentation and leaps in imagery, creating a rhythm akin to a “fragmented star map,” which enhances both visual tension and philosophical depth. Their strengths lie in highly refined imagery, a strong sense of spatiality, and an organic interdisciplinary fusion, revealing a sustained inquiry into the relations between time, matter, and consciousness.
Overall, this is a form of “contemplative cosmic lyricism,” where emotional restraint contains an expanding spirituality. His profound and highly distilled style bears a resemblance to the Chinese poet Qu Yuan’s famous line, “The road ahead is long and far; I will search up and down,” embodying a poetic spirit of perpetual inquiry into existence, the cosmos, and the self.(By Christine Chen)

梅兰吉兹·塔莱伊扎德（Mehrangiz Talaiezadeh）伊朗国际知名超写实主义画家、诗人、作家、翻译家、摄影师及艺术教育家，拥有英语教学与语言学硕士学位和十五年以上教学经验。她专长肖像画与静物画创作，曾获多个国际艺术奖项、荣誉博士学位及2025年CIESART国际奖章。其诗歌和小说被译成十三种语言，并发表于多国文学刊物。作品曾在国际画廊与博物馆展出并被收藏。她以细腻写实、色彩明丽的艺术风格著称，致力于融合超写实与抽象艺术，探索新的视觉表达。

石榴树下，最后的秋日落霞

石榴累累，
红籽如宝石；
宝石镶嵌于岁月之盾，
盾中藏着甘苦的泪。
泪水流经人间，
人间明暗相生。
微光洒落花野，
嫣红覆盖长椅。
茶席静设，
亲密的话语轻轻展开；
青杏仁与三色果实相伴，
共享秋日余晖。
石榴树下，
晚霞渐沉。
诚实之风缓缓吹过，
穿行于宁静而纯净的林间。

𝐇𝐄 𝐥𝐀𝐒𝐓 𝐀𝐔𝐓𝐔𝐌𝐍 𝐒𝐔𝐍𝐒𝐄𝐓 𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐑 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐏𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐄 𝐓𝐑𝐄𝐄𝐒

The pomegranate trees;
Full of red ruby seeds
Full of jewelry beads;
The jewelry beads
Embedded in shields;
The shields
Full of sweet and bitter weeps;
The sweet and bitter weeps
Flows through human lives;
The human lives
Full of shades and glitter lits;
The glitter lits
On a flory plain in pretty reds;
The pretty reds
Over the chaise;
The chaise with tea ware parties,
The parties, full of intimacies
The intimacies with raw almonds, tricolor is
In the last autumn sunsets
Under the pomegranate trees
The spirit of honesty breeze
In the peace pure jungles.


企盼永久和平的黎明

终有一日，战争风暴止息。
不再有鱼儿游弋于漆黑的海浪，
不再有白鸟穿越浓黑的硝烟。
眼睛不再流下血泪，
太阳无需披上哀悼的衣裳。
白鸟高翔于澄明苍穹，
一滴和平的露珠，便可安抚万顷海洋。
新的鱼儿游入新的海域，
和平之歌回荡四方。
世方原野重披绿色，
橄榄树在大地上生长。

𝐇𝐎𝐏𝐏𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐃𝐀𝐖𝐍 𝐎𝐅 𝐄𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐍𝐀𝐋 𝐏𝐄𝐀𝐂𝐄

One day the storm of war ends
No more fishes swim in black waves
No white birds will fly in black smokes
Eyes will never shed red tears
Sun will never wear mourning clothes
White birds fly high in bright cosmos
A drop of peace dew will make peace of seas
And new fishes will swim in new seas
Songs of peace will echo everywheres
World farm will be green with olive trees


日出与日落之间的河流

目光河上漫游。
蔚蓝潮汐追逐彼此，
河流映照自然，
自然映照更深的神秘。
河岸奏起交响曲，
水波低吟温柔狂想曲。
天与地染成两重色调，
上下皆蓝。
燕子掠过古老洞穴，
小鱼跃出粼粼波光。
梦的词语自河中浮现，
现实在平静的镜面显影。
蓝天微朦，河水澄明；
白云如新娘栖于天际，
碎石沉睡水底。
浪花击石，宛如民谣；
小舟轻行，如迅捷野鸭。
西瓜浸于清凉河水，
消解盛暑。
心中的词句随波漂流，
鱼儿吞食诗意的诱饵。
远处，一位沉默的人鱼少女，
睁着明亮的眼睛——
在落日处，
凝望日出的方向。

R𝗜𝗩𝗘𝗥 𝗔𝗧 𝗦𝗨𝗡𝗥𝗜𝗦𝗘 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗦𝗨𝗡𝗦𝗘𝗧

my eyes, surfing on a river
The blue tide was sliding on each other
The river was the mirror of nature
The nature was mirror of super nature
Riverside was playing a symphony
Rivertide had a gentle rhapsody
Cieling and floor were painted in two hue
The bottom and the top were painted blue
Swallows were flying over the old caves
Tiny fish were jumping out of the waves
Dream words were emerging from the river
Reals were appeared on flat mirror
Opaque blue sky, transparent river
White cloud brides in sky, rubbles in water
Ballads, by splashing water on the rocks
Boats were sailing on water like swift ducks
Watermelons were dipped in chill water
To cool themselves down in the hot weather
The words inside me floated on tides
The fish were swallowing my poetic baits
Dumb little mermaid, with her big keen eyes
At distant sunseting, gazed at sunrise

诗歌赏析：

梅兰吉兹·塔莱伊扎德的诗歌延续其画作鲜明的视觉美学，以石榴、白鸟、河流等意象构筑充满色彩与光影的诗意世界。她善于将自然景观与人文情怀融合，在温润明朗的抒情中表达对和平、真诚与美的向往。其诗风质朴流畅，兼具波斯文化的浪漫气质与人道主义关怀，展现出富有疗愈力量的艺术精神。（佩英）

Editorials:

Mehrangiz Talaiezadeh’s poetry continues the vivid visual aesthetics of her painting, constructing a richly colored poetic world through imagery such as pomegranates, white birds, and rivers. She skillfully blends natural landscapes with human emotion, expressing a sincere longing for peace, honesty, and beauty in a warm and luminous lyrical tone. Her poetic style is simple yet fluid, combining the romantic sensibility of Persian cultural tradition with a strong humanistic concern, revealing an artistic spirit imbued with gentle and healing power.(By Christine Chen)

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