FRAGRANT LOTUS

By Nan Yue

July in sizzling summer

without a tinge from muddy spring

Cool, this Saha World

you couldn't be kept

You broke the water

Opened to the sun

with your charming countenance

Lake water your forever lover

hugged bodhi tree reflected in the water

Each second below jade skirt

are all memories

Bottom mud observe nirvana calmly

never hear of slanders outside

Forever joy，goodwill and grit

Just for the amazing lotus

Watching death back to life

Water is running

Lotus is vanishing

Infinity is in everything

? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?? ? ? Translated by Chen Zihong

translator's note:

the original title 四季蓮花開, and 四季蓮花 means lotus can flower in all four seasons.

line 3? Saha World -the original Chinese text 婆娑世界 just from Sanskrit Sahā-lokadhātu.

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【中文原詩】

四季蓮花開

七月的盛夏

沒有一絲春的泥濘

婆娑世界里的清涼

沒能把你留住

你躍出水面

把那嬌艷的面龐

獻給了太陽

迷戀了一生的湖水

將菩提樹的倒影擁入懷中

荷葉裙下的每一秒

都變成了永恒

塘底的淤泥靜觀著涅槃重生

從未聽說過外面的詆毀

信守著喜悅，善念，堅毅

成就著蓮花的驚艷

起死回生

水有型，蓮無樣

轉(zhuǎn)瞬便是空

2017.6.16 南樂