循環廻轉的氹氹轉

 

氹氹轉

 

在我們的小時候，

公園裡常有這種重機械式的氹氹轉。

這種氹氹轉，想玩的小孩需要自己用力推動。

由於氹氹轉結構結實穩重，

推動它需要一些力氣。

如果其他小孩坐上去增加了重量，

那就更難推動了。

但一旦推動，它就轉得很快，十分刺激！

如果是一群小孩一起玩，

通常幾個孩子會一起推動它，

但總有一些小孩用力推，

也有些小孩不出力，但總能搭“順風車”。

小孩玩氹氹轉，動感十足才好玩，

一停下來就意興闌珊。

氹氹轉要不停轉動才好玩！

總得有人推！

三歲定八十，

那個較用力推的，

長大後做人處世也會更主動和積極吧。

 

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Agnes CHAN - Circle Game

  

 

 Yesterday a child came out to wonder
Caught a dragonfly inside a jar
Fearful when the sky was full of thunder
And tearful at the falling of a star

 

And the seasons they go round and round
And the painted ponies go up and down
We're captive on the carousel of time
We can't return we can only look behind
From where we came
And go round and round and round
In the circle game

Then the child moved ten times round the seasons
Skated over ten clear frozen streams
Words like, when you're older, must appease him
And promises of someday make his dreams
And the seasons they go round and round
And the painted ponies go up and down
We're captive on the carousel of time
We can't return we can only look behind
From where we came
And go round and round and round
In the circle game

Sixteen springs and sixteen summers gone now
Cartwheels turn to car wheels through the town
And they tell him,
Take your time, it won't be long now
Till you drag your feet to slow the circles down
And the seasons they go round and round
And the painted ponies go up and down
We're captive on the carousel of time
We can't return we can only look behind
From where we came
And go round and round and round
In the circle game

So the years spin by and now the boy is twenty
Though his dreams have lost some grandeur coming true
There'll be new dreams, maybe better dreams and plenty
Before the last revolving year is through
And the seasons they go round and round
And the painted ponies go up and down
We're captive on the carousel of time
We can't return, we can only look behind
From where we came
And go round and round and round
In the circle game