Δευτέρα 2 Μαΐου 2022

Poems of Nguyen Dac Lap – Vietnamese poet

 


 

i.Flowers on desert


Once the whole desert blossomed

Colorfulness fluttered on the sand

Then five years, ten years, sometimes a whole lifetime

Again flowers blossomed

Seeds of faith

Though the wind and sand buried

                     and time may no longer remember

It is still...

 

ii.Monument of Nguyen Trai


Day after day, the sun shines from the East

Night after night, the moon shines the world

 

Standing in the Southern sky

Via the sunshine

Via the rain

Via the two dimensions of fierce time

His heart still caused the sharp pain for the world

"Everything, everywhere are all clear

People’s heart is extremely dangerous"*

 

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* Poem by Nguyen Trai (Nguyen Trai is a great hero of Vietnam)

 

iii.A monk and a blind toothpicks seller

 

In midst of a street

         The monk in cassava robe

                     Raised his hands for blessing

The blind man with a bunch of toothpicks and a broom

                       gray hair

                                groped to find the way

Randomly met each other

                        then each one went onhis direction

Silently

                  They were looking for something very true

A sound resounded

                          in the midst of their hands....

                     

iv. Sudden poem

 

The earth is warming up, people’s love is cooling down

Lonely human life

 

Memories flying away

Suddenly alone in midst of living days.

 

The old tree falling down to the pillar of time

Smiling white hair

 

A heavy tree carrying many branches

A hug of that time burdening the tree at present

Some people making misery to others

Because they cannot stand on their own, they have to rely on others

 

While living but not tolerating each other

When dying with pain in the grave.

 

The forest is still there but you are a different person

You are the same, how many times falling leaves?

 

Then knowing, the tree is harder than the sky

The sun is like fire, still smiled, still happy.

 

Sunshine likes a grumpy old lady

In late afternoon, it's a little bit sunny

 

The tree speaks to the earth by buds

The wind speaks to the sky by flying clouds.

 

There's no way in the sky

White clouds among white clouds

To the flying direction as the way

One bird wing, one dot

Then merging in midst of clouds at the end of the sky...

 

v. The sonata in bus

 

The city moving noisy

Traffic jam, waiting cars

Suddenly singing voice from the bus speaker

Relief and dear "Moonlight” sonata

Sometimes as slow as moonlight

 

Sometimes as immense as river to the sea

Passengers suddenly forgot everything

Wandering into the dreamland....

Not knowing where it is

"Moonlight” as wave overflowing again

 

(*"Moonlight” sonata by Beethoven)

 

vi. In maternity room after giving birth

 

Silent! The flowers blooming

Silent! Young shoots sprouting small branches

Be silent, sis please

Be silent, bro please

Baby is sleeping

As good sleeping in the mother belly....

 

A young father

Downing ear to listen to his baby breath

Besides his wife as a drooping leaf

After the rain...

 

Be gentle, wind

Be gentle, rain

And cease the storm, sea...

 

Welcome Christmas angels.

 

vii. In emergency room

 

Writhing People...

Trying to anchor in fragile lives

By transferring lines

And serous drops.

 

Like fires that burned out its climax

Lighting up again

All love sending to their living people...

Last minute on earth

 

Eyes open, look at the life for the last time

...Suddenly a clear blue sky...

 

 Nguyen Dac Lap – Vietnamese poet Brief biography

Hometown: Tan Uoc, ThanhOai, Hanoi

Now living in Ha Dong District, Hanoi

Member of Vietnam Writers’ Association

Member of Hanoi Writers’ Association

Published literature works

Strange land - Poetry - National Culture Publishing House -1995

Premonition – Poetry – Youth Publishing House -2000

Desert flower – Poetry – Writers’ Association Publishing House -2004

City - Poetry – Writers’ Association Publishing House -2008

Standing cloud – Poetry – Writers’ Association Publishing House - 2011

The Voice of Time – Poetry – Writers’ Association Publishing House -2018

Literary Awards

- Nguyen Trai Art and Literature Prize in Ha Tay Province, 3rd (2001-2005)

- Second prize of Ha Tay poetry contest (2006-2007)

- Medal for the cause of Vietnamese literature and art


Confession: “I write about my experiences in life. Striving to write well, honestly towards the noble humanity".

 

 





 

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