最近讀到一首美國詩人Robert Frost的詩

The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

最近在ink上讀到一段詩
是一位女詩人利玉芳的<貓>(節錄)

在靜靜的時空凝視
互相感應對方的呼吸
我看野貓已不是野貓

意外尋獲
牠的眼睛就是我遺失的眼睛
牠黑夜裡放大的瞳孔
不是因為四周對牠有了設限和疑懼嗎

貓的眼睛就是我的眼睛
牠黑夜裡輕巧的跫音
不是因為想避免惹起容易浮躁的人嗎
貓的腳步就是我的腳步

原以為貓的哀鳴只是為了飢餓
但我目睹牠在寒冬走過遍佈魚屍的堤岸
不屑走過
然後拋給冷漠的曠野
一聲鳴叫
發現那是我隱藏已久的聲音

我超喜歡那句"我看野貓已不是野貓"
有時的確有這種感覺
但他描寫的是女性的情慾
跟我所感動的地方又有點距離了
但這的確是不錯的詩
有空應該要去把整首詩找出來讀讀
這首詩在1986年也得了第十七屆吳濁流文學獎(新詩)

想起昨日的Deutschkurs
老師講到 graue haare
是德語裡頭形容年老的詞
突然講到中文對於白髮的各種用詞
鬢已星星也。
於是，老師就跟底下的同學吟起
蔣捷的虞美人

少年聽雨歌樓上
紅燭昏羅帳
壯年聽雨客舟中
江闊雲低、斷雁叫西風。

而今聽雨僧廬下
鬢已星星也
悲歡離合總無情
一任階前、點滴到天明。