Willow and Gingko By Eve Merriam
The willow is like an etching,
Fine-lined against the sky.
Then ginkgo is like a crude sketch,
Hardly worthy to be signed.
The willow’s music is like a soprano,
Delicate and thin.
The ginkgo’s tune is like a chorus
With everyone joining in.
The willow is sleek as a velvet-nosed calf,
The ginkgo is leathery as an old bull.
The willow’s branches are like silken thread;
The ginkgo’s like stubby rough wool.
The willow is like a nymph with streaming hair;
Wherever it grows, there is green and gold and fair.
The willow dips to the water,
Protected and precious, like the king’s favorite daughter.
The ginkgo forces its way through gray concrete;
Like a city child, it grows up in the street.
Thrust against the metal sky,
Somehow it survives and even thrives.
My eyes feast upon the willow,
But my heart goes to the ginkgo.
（柳樹與銀杏樹 Eve Merriam），作者在以上這首詩裏比了楊柳與銀杏的區別。
第壹部分： 講的是楊柳的外表有多好看，但是銀杏卻很難看。
第二部分：講的是風吹楊柳的聲音有多好聽，但是銀杏吹了聲音卻很雜。
第三部分：講的是楊柳的樹桿很細，但是銀杏的樹桿卻很粗。
最後壹部分：楊柳像公主，受到父王（人）的喜愛，但是銀杏像野孩子壹樣，再硬的瓷磚也能生長。
楊柳耐看，但是銀杏卻給了我心理上的安慰。
Fool`s Garden--"Lemon Tree"
I'm sitting here in the boring room
It's just another rainy Sunday afternoon
I'm wasting my time, I got nothing to do
I'm hanging around, I'm waiting for you
But nothing ever happens, and I wonder
I'm driving around in my car
I'm driving too fast, I'm driving too far
I'd like to change my point of view
I feel so lonely, I'm waiting for you
But nothing ever happens, and I wonder.
I wonder how, I wonder why
Yesterday you told me about the blue-blue sky
And all that I can see is just the yellow lemon tree
I'm turning my head up and down
I'm turning, turning, turning, turning, turning around
And all that I can see is just another lemon tree.
Sing: Dap, dararararam-dirabdab, dararararam-dirabdab, dap-dirirab.
I'm sitting here, I miss the power
I'd like to go out taking a shower
But there's a heavy cloud inside my head
I feel so tired, put myself into bed
Well nothing ever happens, and I wonder.
Isolation is not good for me
Isolation, I don't want to sit on a lemon tree
I'm stepping around in a desert of joy
May be anyhow I get another toy
And everything will happen, and you wonder.
I wonder how, I wonder why
Yesterday you told me about the blue-blue sky
And all that I can see is just another lemon tree
I'm turning my head up and down
I'm turning, turning, turning, turning, turning around
And all that I can see is just the yellow lemon tree.
Yell I wonder wonder...
I wonder how, I wonder why
Yesterday you told me about the blue-blue sky
And all that I can see
And all that I can see
And all that I can see is just the yellow lemon tree
辛苦收集的喲，親，記得給個好評抱歉，盡力了，只有這些了