Songs of Innocence

媽媽十九歲時作的

Songs of Innocence*

Flying Crab

What's that little crab knitting,

Flying up and down the ceiling?

Is she making a fishing-net,

Or a nappy for her baby crab?

Egg

Mummy's belly is getting big.

I bet she has swallowed an elephant egg.

* The title "Songs of Innocence" was stolen from Wordsworth's "Songs of Innocence and Experience".

Infant Sorrow

媽媽十九歲時作的

Infant Sorrow *

My father thought

He owned nothing;

My mother thought

She belonged to nothing.

So they got married,

And then I came.

But

What can I own?

And to what can I belong?

*The title of this poem is stolen from Wordworth's "Songs of Innocence and Experience".

On the Footbridge

這是媽媽十九歲時作的 (十九歲預測自己二十九歲的心情 ... 😆)

On the Footbridge

       Night was coming, and the sky was dyed dark purple.  It was time for dinner, and people were going home, with hurrying steps and eager hearts.

    She was walking alone on the footbridge.  It was a familiar footbridge.  She used to walk past this footbridge to the railway station everyday when she was studying.  And now, she walked past this footbridge everyday, too, to the bus-stop where she could find a bus which carried her to the firm in which she was working.  And, of course, she walked past this footbridge whenever she was coming back home, from school, as well as the firm.