Nine Birds: Of A Feather, They Flock Together, Hopping Down The Wayside 九鳥群呼漫步街頭 鳥如鳩 Poem by Frank Yue

TUNE: Xiāng Jiàn huān
"Joy in Seeing Each Other"
TITLE: Buffalo Bird
(A long-and-short verse Ci)
- by 九鳥 "Nine Birds"
- Translated by Frank C Yue

Of a feather, they flock together, hopping down the wayside,
Birds like doves.
For worms, closely he looks at her back hairs -her neck beside.

He chirps endless,
Pecks regret-less -
For the rewards, more-or-less.
A "win-win" Buffalo-Bird relationship, this symbiotic love.


(2013.10.12)


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《牛鳥》 九鳥

群呼漫步街頭，
鳥如鳩，
牛背頸椎毛內覓蟲鉤。

吱不斷，
啄無怨，
乃因酬。
互惠共贏牛鳥趣相投。