Leaving

A poem in Vietnamese by Sấu Mã
Translator: Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm
Photography: Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm

The journeys listless

After this journey be others still

The mountainous avalanche journeys

.

Stop packing

The deep had to yawn

Fine you may bite

.

I am not leaving.

.

June 2019

_____

RA ĐI

.

Thẫn thờ những cuộc ra đi

Sau ra đi này còn ra đi nữa

Những ra đi núi lở

.

Ngừng xếp hành trang

Vực sâu đã ngáp 

Ừ cho mày đớp 

.

Mình không ra đi.

 .

24/5/2019


Sấu Mã, the poet is a retired professor living in Vietnam.

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.

By Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm

There's magic in translating a body of work from one language to another.

2 comments

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