Poems by Nguyen Dinh Tam – Vietnam

 

ASPIRANT

Floating with the clouds

The sea forgets that it is salty

I forgot my white hair

Deep blue, to aspire extend endlessly

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DURING THE NIGHT

There are birds tonight sleeping

In the middle of non-stop waves

There are eyelashes closing tonight

The heart is still beating evenly

There are words up tonight

Wake up for one love

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SALT FLAVOUR

Wake up with the sea for a lifetime

Come with me back to sleep

The wave of incarnation on the field dreamed of salty

Sea - and me - and you

Crystallized into salt particles of life

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WAIT UP MOONLIGHT

The moons are waiting for a moon

The night of the night of the sea was startled

I dreamed of treading on sand

Moon womb, flushed between immense

The magical moment of Heaven and Earth sublime

Loving too much is the face glowing

The generous night gave me the wave

Blame yourself on the two sides of the moon

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THE WORDS OF THE SEAGULL

Does not have a self-propelled birds their children from high cliffs into the sea

Mommy's darling

Only me seagull

It's time for I must to push me out of the nest

Don't snuggle in my chest

Don't look at the tears in my eyes

You have to jump into the sea

May be in great danger

But you have to live

You will live

And you will live on your own

That's the confident instinct of courage

Are your only living environment

Of our seagulls

In that place there will be fishermen

There are those sailors

Our good friends

They will welcome you like brave warriors

They love you with the love of the sea

Where you have a free sky

Satisfy passion, desire

Come on, my dear you!

Let's start

Plunge

Spread wings

Flapping wings

And I bet my life on the seagulls.

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NGUYEN DINH TAM’s biography

* Former Lecturer, Head of the Division "Engine - Thermal Equipment" Vietnam Maritime University.

* Member of Vietnam Writers Association.

* Member of Vietnam Overseas Study Association.

* Member of Hai Phong City Writers Association.

* Prize:

+ Year 2015: First prize in the literary contest organized by the Vietnam Writers' Association and Ministry of Communications and Transport organized in 2014-2015 to celebrate the 70th Anniversary of the Ministry of Communications and Transport, with the epic "Wake up with the sea".

+ 2016: First prize in the poetry contest “55 years of Land and People” Ngo Quyen District, Hai Phong City.

+ 2017: Award "Ten years of good poetry" by the Teachers Association of Hai Phong City (2007 - 2017).

+ 2018: Nanum Literary award, Korea (Nanum Literary Award).

+ 2019: Nationwide Poetry Competition Award " Hai Phong - A Rising Aspiration”.

* Published Poetry Artworks:

- Waves in Autumn - Hai Phong Publishing House - 1982

- Love of the sea - Writers' Association Publishing House - 2005

- Wake up with the autumn - Writers Association Publishing House - 2012.

- Wake up with the sea – Maritime Publishing House – 2015

- A time of the sea - Poetry and epic poetry - Writers' Association Publishing House – 2017.

- Purple sunset Lan Chau - Writers' Association Publishing House - 2018

- Words of Seagulls – Writers Association Publishing House – 2021

* Many poetic artworks have been introduced in foreign literary magazines: Korea, Romania, Nepal, Italy, Russia, Pakistan, India, Association of World Witers - AWW, Anthology of Poetry, Asian Literature...