喻丽清1945年生于浙江金华，祖籍浙江杭州，三岁随父母迁居台湾。台北医学大学药学系毕业。曾创办北极星诗社。1978年旅居美国。出版诗集《爱的图腾》《沿着时间的边缘走》《未来的花园》，散文《无情不似多情苦》《蝴蝶树》《带只杯子出门》《寻找雨树》《在海风裡飞翔》《舍不得》等。小说集《爱情的花样》《喻丽清极短篇》。曾获中国文艺协会文艺奖章、新闻局优良著作金鼎奖、中国文协散文奖章、儿童文学小太阳金鼎奖，行政院文建会最佳少儿著作奖。现居加州。

Liqing Yu (originally Eileen Tang) was a licensed pharmacist in Taiwan. She moved to California in 1978. She has authored more than 40 books in Taiwan and China. She is also a cofounder and actively involved in volunteering work for Evergreen Education Foundation for years. Her works have been included in anthologies, and textbooks throughout Taiwan, China and abroad. She has been awarded numerous prizes for her essays, proses, poems and stories for children. Currently, she lives in Berkeley, CA.

李作昌，1936 年生于江西南昌市。1957年毕业于台大电机系，1964年于斯坦佛大学电机系获博士学位。之后在美国高科技工业界从事研发工作长达三十八年。退休以后，重拾年轻时对诗的喜爱，开始写作发表。

T. C. Lee was born in Nanchang, Kiangsi, China 1936. He graduated with B. S. degree from National Taiwan University and from Stanford University with Ph. D in 1964, both in Electrical Engineering. Then he worked in R&D with the high tech industry in US for thirty eight years. After retirement he devoted his long hobby and love in poetry and starting writing poems for several magazines.

记号

The Marks

树留下姿势
花留下颜色或清香
如何在我们彼此的身上留下记号
山留下静默
小溪留下行走的声音
如何留下我们爱情的记号

如何向天空学习云
向海洋学习浪花
向大地学习生长的智慧
如何向爱情学习痛苦
如何向死亡学习放弃
啊  如何将自己投入火中
就这样化为灰烬
不必留下任何记号
			

The trees have left their poses
The flowers have left their color and fragrance
How should we leave our mark with each other
The mountain has left his silence
The stream has left the murmur of her travel
How should we leave the mark of our love

How to study clouds from the sky
And waves from the ocean
How to learn the wisdom of growth from the earth
And pain from love
And surrender from death
Oh   may we learn how to cast ourselves into the fire
And be burnt to ashes
Where no marks are ever left
			

爱的图腾

Love's Totem

经过了千百次的升华
我们爬出各自的巢穴
半动物半植物的躯壳
叫我们有时记起有时遗忘
肉欲是什么裸体的天堂是什么

写在甲骨文内怯生生的爱与惧怕
一如半擎的莲花
斜斜开在远古暗黑的穴里
我从没有这般美丽过
在非始非终每一次的睡梦里
悄悄爬出

断了翅的天使
在考古的轮迴里
才得以重享人间暂短的合欢
我从不知如何祈求
求生死不必界限
爱没有罪罚的阴影

带来花香的风里
遍是等待结果的前世姻缘
我不过是土
一撮竭尽所能让种子发芽的
故土

什么是永恒什么是悲伤
我从来没有这样溷沌过
			

After eons of mutations,
we crawled out of our individual nests.
With our shells, half animal yet half plant,
we sometimes remembered and sometimes not,
what was lust vis-a-vis a naked paradise.

Uneasy words of love and fear inscribed 
on oracle bones like a skewed lotus, that
slowly blossoms at a slant
in the dark cave of the distant past.
I have never been so beautiful;
From every dream with no beginning and no end
I crawled out quietly.

Angels with broken wings,
in every archaeological incarnation,
were allowed the transient pleasure of life's union.
I've never known how to pray that,
there be no boundary between life and death,
that love have no shadow of guilt or punishment.

In a wind with a  flowery scent
Float pairs destined from past lives,
waiting to bear fruit;
I am but the soil,
Striving to sprout seed
ancient soil.

What is eternity and what is sorrow,
I have never been so tossed.