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如何让你遇见我

在我最美丽的时刻

为这

我已在佛前求了五百年

求它让我们结一段尘缘

佛于是把我化作一棵树

长在你必经的路旁

阳光下慎重地开满了花

朵朵都是我前世的盼望

当你走近

请你细听

颤抖的叶是我等待的热情

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译文

May Buddha let us meet

in my most beautiful hours,

I have prayed for it

for five hundred years.

Buddha made me a tree

by the path you may take,

In full blossoms I’m waiting in the sun

every flower carrying my previous hope.

As you are near, listen carefully

the quivering leaves are my waiting zeal,

As you pass by the tree

without noticing me,

My friend, upon the ground behind you

is not the fallen petals but my withered heart

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《一棵开花的树》是席慕蓉（穆伦·席连勃）于1980年10月4日创作的一首抒情诗。作者通过对一棵开花的树的描写来表达作者对于自然的感悟。

诗之灵魂在于情，情真意切才有诗。席慕容的《一棵开花的树》把一位少女的怀春之心表现得情真意切，震撼人心。

这不是失恋的悲歌，而是对真挚的爱的热烈祈求。这首诗始终紧扣着一棵开花的树来写，意象单纯，抒情真切，音韵和谐，艺术水平很高。

《一棵开花的树》以树为意象，一花一叶都充盈着爱意，将“ 我” 对“ 你” 的纯真的爱淋漓尽致地表达了出来。