A poem in Vietnamese by Vũ Ngọc Giao
Translator: Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm

there in the ever ending

call of a bird 

on shoulders fell

I couldn’t in whom eyes tell

exhaling sound

desolation

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November 2019

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CÕI VÔ CÙNG

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sớm mai trong cõi vô cùng

tiếng chim nào 

rớt ngập ngừng trên vai

tôi nhìn tôi trong mắt ai

nghe ra hơi thở 

đã dài quạnh hiu

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Vũ Ngọc Giao, the Vietnamese musician and poet born 1951, My Tho. A former student Petrus Ký Sài Gòn (1961 – 1968), an alumnus of the Faculty of Philosophy, the University of Literature Saigon (1968 – 1970), he is the founder of Phu Nhuan Guitar Club, Saigon. His poetry is published on many literary websites. A few familiar songs: Looking back at my life, The man with sad eyes (a poem by Đỗ Trung Quân), His return on a rainy night, The July rain…

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.