Comb of Chastity
Translated from Chinese to English by Christina Ng Translator's note This poem is from Dan Ying’s poetry collection 发上岁月 (The Years in My…
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Lew Poo Chan, better known by her pen name Dan Ying, is a Chinese-Singapore poetess and a Chinese language lecturer at National University of Singapore where she retired in 2003. Her published works included Poems of Taiji (1979), Time Passing Through My Hairs (1993), The Human World Affairs (2012) and The Road of Poetry (2017). She has won many literary prizes including two National Book Development Council of Singapore’s Book Awards for poetry, the 1995 Southeast Asia Write Award and 1996 Singapore Cultural Medallion.
Translated from Chinese to English by Christina Ng Translator's note This poem is from Dan Ying’s poetry collection 发上岁月 (The Years in My…
柔柔披在肩上的 豈只是烏黑水亮的秀髮 是炫麗閃爍的青春啊 從唐山逶迤到南洋 蕉風拂過,椰雨淋過 那匹玄色動人的瀑布 千里一瀉至小蠻腰 裊裊娜娜,搖曳生姿 多少漢家郎的心弦 多少好男兒的遐思 都被一一牽動 .......一一撩起 六月初九,麻雀啾啾 啼亮了晨光 萬物睜開雙眼 發現世界依舊美好 怎會料到,樣樣 美好依舊的這天…