夏菁，是盛志澄的笔名，浙江嘉兴人．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，现为美国《诗天空》（Poetry Sky）双语季刊顾问。自1954年出版第一本诗集起，已有十一种，包括近年出版的双语诗集《夏菁短诗选》(2004) ， 及去年(2010)出版的《独行集》及《折扇》等。除诗以外，尚出版有散文四种。其诗文，近年来常在美国、台湾等地中文报纸及期刊发表。

Hsia Ching, the pen name of Ted 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. Presently he is a consultant of Poetrysky. Since his first collection of poems published in 1954, he has produced a total of eleven volumes of poems including the recent two: Walking Alone and A Folding Fan (both 2010), and a English and Chinese anthology Selected Poems of Hsia Ching (2004). He has also published four volumes of essays. Still, he writes for Chinese newspaper and magazines in Taiwan and USA.

我不知道

I Don't Know

为什么要写诗? 我不知道
鸟为什么要飞? 鱼为什么
要跳? 春天为什么又来到?

我不知道，为什么要写诗?
是排遣冬日恹恹的无聊
或是，为我的存在写照?

为什么要写照? 我也不知道
也许，存在就是要不断创造
上帝的新叶子，我的新诗

从周遭冷冷厚厚的雪地里
我的一股按捺不住的诗意
像郁金香顶出了冻泥
			

Why write poetry? I don't know
Why birds sing, fish love leaping
And why comes back the Spring?

I don't know, why write poetry?
Just to consume the dull Winter day
Or, to prove my existence in some way?

Why prove my existence, I don't know
Probably, existence needs endless creation:
As God's fresh leaves; so my new poems

From the cold and heavy snow fields
My budding thoughts can't be suppressed
Like tulips' cracking the frozen ground
			

诠释

Illustrations

玫瑰诠释了夏季
岩石诠释了爱情
流水诠释了岁月
死亡诠释了生命

诗，诠释了我自己*

*  这首小诗，写在我出版的一首
   自传性抒情长诗:《折扇》之前。
			

Roses illustrate Summer
Rocks illustrate love
Running water illustrates time
Death illustrates life

And poetry, illustrates myself*

* This poem was written just before the publishing of	
my long autobiographical poem: The Folding Fan