A poem in Vietnamese by Nguyễn Đức Sơn
Translator: Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm
Art: Đinh Trường Chinh

It’s all wrong

Without the devil

How could there be a God

And that’s a truth of this World

No matter how you look at it, it’s all wrong

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April 2022

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Tất cả đều trật lất

Nếu không có quỷ ma

Khó bề thấy được Phật

Đó là sự thật của Trái Đất

Nhưng nghĩ cho cùng tất cả đều trật lất

thơ Nguyễn Đức Sơn

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Nguyễn Đức Sơn, the poet was born on November 18, 1937, in Du Khanh village, Thanh Hai district, Ninh Thuan province, originally from Thua Thien Hue. He began writing poetry very early with the pen name Sao Trên Rừng, and other pen names like Sơn Núi. On the morning of June 11, 2020, passed away at the age of 83.

Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm, the blogger, poet, and translator, was born in 1971 in Phu Nhuan, Saigon, Vietnam. The pharmacist currently lives and works in Western Sydney, Australia.