瘋狂英語:POETRY(1)

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And it was at that age
    Poetry arrived in search of me
    I don't know, I don't know
    Where it came from
    From winter or a river?
    I don't know how or when
    No, they were not voices
    They were not words, nor silence
    But from a street I was 1)summoned from the branches of night
    2)Abruptly from the others
    Among violent fires or returning alone
    There I was without a face and it touched me
    I did not know what to say
    My mouth had no way with names
    My eyes were blind and something started in my soul
    Fever or forgotten wings
    And I made my own way 3)deciphering that fire
    And I wrote the first 4)faint line
    Faint without substance
    Pure nonsense, pure wisdom of someone who knows nothing
    And suddenly I saw the heavens unfastened
    And open planets 5)palpitating 6)plantations
    Shadow 7)perforated riddled with arrows, fire and flowers
    The winding night, the universe
    And I 8)infinitesimal being drunk with the great 9)starry 10)void
    Lightness image of mystery felt myself a pure part of the 11)abyss
    I wheeled with the stars
    My heart 12)broke loose on the wind
    1) summon v. 召集,召喚
    2) abruptly adv. 突然地
    3) decipher v. 解開(疑團(tuán)), 破譯(密碼)
    4) faint a. 微弱的
    5) palpitate v. 跳動; 顫抖
    6) plantation n. 種植園,大森林
    7) perforate v. 穿孔
    8) infinitesimal a. 無窮小的,極小的
    9) starry a. 布滿星星的
    10) void n. 空間
    11) abyss n. 深淵
    12) break loose : 掙脫束縛或限制