Book Reviews of February's Rose

（图片来自网络） Why  By Bing Hua  Translation By Richard Tornello Why is my voice fading and mute? While in my heart I have something to say. While the creeks are happily gurgling forward Why am stepping backward from life?  I dare not cross that stream Though clearly there is a desire to get to the other side. Utterly exhausted I touch the lonesomeness of the hours of darkness, Outwardly I pretend to beam But my tears stubbornly stream My finest verses remain hidden for Muse has ceased to honor. What on earth went wrong? Why does excitement and happiness come to me no longer?  What on earth went wrong? Time after time I ask these answerless questions that become my last rhymes.  为 何 冰花 为何鸟儿在欢叫 我越来越沉默 心里明明有话 却不愿说 为何溪水欢快向前 我却一步步退却 明明想到对岸去 却不敢跨过河 一身的疲倦 把夜的孤独触摸 想装着微笑 却有泪珠滚落 最好的诗 还没有写 缪斯女神 不再光顾我 究竟是哪里 出了差错 ...

（图片来自网络） FLOWERY AGE By Bing Hua (Rose Lu)  Tr. By Richard Tornello Youth’s flowering released  free untethered. In love, showered her love, to you with the jewel of her youth and beauty She worshiped her god and on a pedestal you were placed. Love brings sorrow and joy laughter and tears, she embraced them all you her god. Now that infatuation of youth is torn asunder and reality brings different tears. Maturity, only then the taste of true tears of love. All that is past is past ossified solid  dead is dead don't bother to seek the past. There is no need. 花 季 冰花 初春的时节 象放风筝一样 放飞过自己 也曾用玛瑙  水晶 雕塑过你 用钻石  玉珠 镶嵌过你 以至顶的虔诚 将你膜拜  高举 喜怒哀乐 因你而更替 偶像碎啦 绝望的泪水 沐浴出不绝望的自己 过去的一切 凝固在句号里 句号里的究竟 无需再寻觅

（图片来自网络） Never Will I Invest In Love By Rose Lu T r. By Richard Tornello  ， 东海仙子 Except for love, I can manage all things. Even losses into gains I can turn. I may, except for love, Cultivate everything And yield a handsome return. There isn’t a word—affection Listed in love’s lexicon. Love’s like photography That makes instant eternity From quantitative to qualitative changes neither need to undergo Nor is an input and output balance is needed so. Love is an unpromising stock The get-in the buyer reckons promising In time gets a dead in lock. Investment in anything is better than love 决不投资爱 情 冰花 除了爱情 什么都可以经营 都可以转亏为盈 除了爱情 什么都可以耕耘 都可以得到收成 爱情的字典里 没有一个词叫感动 爱情如摄影 瞬间定永恒 没有从量变到质变的过程 也没有投入产出的平衡 爱情是不赚钱的股票 单方看好的买进 最终会被套牢 投资什么都比投资爱情强

（图片来自网络） Love By Bing Hua (Rose Lu)  Tr. By Richard Tornello  ， 东海仙子 Is there love of this kind? Leaving you and turning into a pair of eyes behind to throw the wrap over your shoulder when the biting wind is coming. Is there love of this type? Leaving you and turning into a helpful helper to open for you, when the rain falls, an umbrella. Is there love of this sort? Leaving you and keeping you in the dark by honoring the pledge of yesterday. Is there this type of affections? Leaving you, swallowing all complaints, and suffering all humiliations in order that you may have greater expectations.  爱 恋 冰花 有没有这样一种爱恋 离开你 变成你身后的一双眼 寒风来前 把披风搭在你的肩 有没有这样一种爱恋 离开你 变成你的左右手 下雨前 为你撑起一把伞 有没有这样一种爱恋 离开你 让往日的誓言 通过别人来兑现 你却蒙在鼓里边 有没有这样一种爱恋 离开你 忍辱负重吞下千恨万怨 只为你 有个更美好的明天

                                （图片来自网络） To Post a Heart By Bing Hua (Rose Lu)  Translation By Richard Tornello To her first love, a letter, her heart was sent, While sure every word was written all over her face for the world to see, she did it anyway. Into the mail box it went. Blushing, breathing hard She ran home. 投心                魯冰花 早春 把狂跳的心 装入信封 羞到信箱 咬咬牙 手一松儿 一颗心滑入 脸红 捂住双眼 手缝里边 没人看见 一溜烟儿 跑开

Seventeen By Rose Lu Translation By Richard Tornello I often stroll on the shores of my past, expectations and aspirations, like daylight and starlight replacing they come and go. On those banks of time the feelings of my past so lush and bountiful spread out over time arising from the deepest part of my soul. And yet, I know I can never enter never pass through that again. Those memories and bitter-sweetness, the bitter-sweetness of seventeen, of my adolescence, lingers on. 十七岁 冰花 过往的情愫如同翡翠 铺陈在心灵的最深处 在岁月彼岸泛着幽绿的光 穿粉裙的女孩 带着朦胧的心 常漫步于岸边那片草坪 纵使期盼与憧憬 却永远也走不进 那扇攀满常春藤的门 日光与星光更替 泪珠滚落于琴弦之上 晶莹、咸涩、静默 花季的永恒倩影 踩痛了人生的草坪 十七岁的芬芳终究要萦绕一生 此诗刊于： 侨报副刊，2010年8月20日 《东西方》载入 2013, 9月刊 收入《当代精英诗人300家》2013,丁白 老师主编 美华文学 2013 春季号, 总第85期 《文学月刊》2012年6月 《新加坡文艺》，2011年5月第101期 《超然诗书画》第三期 2011.11 《2010中国诗歌选》