夏菁，是盛志澄的笔名，1925年生于浙江嘉兴．美国科罗拉多州立大学硕士，曾任联合国专家及科罗拉多教授等职。夏菁是台湾 “蓝星诗社” 创始人之一。自1954年 出版第一本诗集起，已有九种，包括近年出版的《雪岭》(2003)和《夏菁短诗选》(2004)等。

Hsia Ching, the pen name of Ted (Tse) C. Sheng, was born in Zhejiang, China in 1925. He received his M.S. degree from the Colorado State University (1966) and has worked with the United Nations and taught at the Colorado State University. Hsia Ching was one of the founders of the Blue Stars Poetry Society in Taiwan in early Fifties. Since his first collection of poems published in 1954, he has produced a total of nine volumes of poems including the recent two: A Snow-capped Peak (2003) and Selected Poems of Hsia Ching (2004).

车过冰湖

Driving by a Frozen Lake

车道转弯处忽然瞥见
白茫茫的一只盲眼
看起来似曾相识，只是
想不起他的名字

哦！去夏我曾到过那里
绿汪汪、眼波依依
现在却蒙上白内障一层
毛玻璃透不出真情

这种想法，也许错在我自己
人老去，总爱和从前相比
湖还是湖，哪有什么改变？
到现在，我也有很多盲点

不久，春风会在一夜之间
将湖水的心结一一化解
我妒嫉他享有这种轮回
心中又不禁感到惭愧
			

Driving along a corner suddenly I see 
A whitish blind eye passing me 
As if I had known it for a long time
But could not recall its name

Oh! I was there last summer to see
A greenish eye filled with motion 
Now, it is covered with cataract
Frosted glass cannot reveal emotion

Probably it is my fault with these thoughts
Growing old, I tend to compare things with the past
A lake is a lake, what changes can it have?
Right now, I also have many blind spots

Soon the spring breeze will in one night
Melt away all the harden parts from its heart
I am jealous that it enjoys the cycle of life
Immediately, I was ashamed of my thoughts
			

仰望星空

Looking at the Starry Night

仰望星空
浩瀚无穷
但愿他们都属
轮回的星宿

不论在世时他们
曾经辛苦一生
或仅如惊鸿一瞥
现在他们都以
脉脉的星眸
回顾前尘
沧海一粟般地
守望着我们

在这星移斗转之间
我要找出一张脸庞
和她星图上的坐标
将来好飞去探访
			

Looking at the starry night
No boundary in sight
I hope all of the stars
Belong to Samsara

When on the earth, whether one had
Lived a long but toilsome life
Or left only a fleeting appearance
They are all watching over us now
With their deepest emotion to recall
And refresh their faint memories
Painstakingly, they keep watching us
Through the boundless universe

Among these ever-moving stars
I want to find a familiar face
And her coordinates on the star chart
To facilitate my future visit