Can anyone read this?

[Simon]

and tell me what it says???

http://freespace.virgin.net/simon.golfs/Chinese%20pic.jpg

[Cming_Guo]

一節復一節，千枝攢萬葉，我自不開花，免撩蜂與蝶
癸末春陌石 [李][陌石書畫]
it’s a poem tribute to bamboo

[Simon]

Thanks for that

can i be cheeky and ask exactly what it says?

[Juba]

If it’s any help, the poem was written by Zheng Banqiao (Chang Pan-Ch’iao), also known as Zheng Xie (Cheng Hsieh), an official, poet and painter of the Qing Dynasty.

(Thank you Google for enabling me to feign scholarship.)

My poor attempt at a translation without a dictionary to hand:

One section mimics? another,
A thousand sticks sprout? ten thousand leaves,
I willingly? do not bear flowers,
In order not to ??? bees and butterflies.

(Sorry, neither literature nor classical Chinese is my field.)

[Simon]

no worries thank you very much for your help