Văn Học Ngoại Biên — Literature Beyond

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All the internal struggles
The fights goes unseen
Disturbed to a point
Naked as have ever been.

Through all the familial scenes
Another festive season
As St. Joseph avoids Herod
I too wish beyond reason.

Who am I?
Unidentifiable!
…if not for them
They are the first to love me.

ttt
2004


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.

21 responses

  1. .Killa. avatar

    This was cuter than cute 👍👍😆.

    Happy New Year to you hun 🎉🎊🎆🎈🤟😄

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    1. Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm avatar

      I wrote it like a million years ago.. it is cute. Happy New year to you too! ❤

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      1. .Killa. avatar

        Yes 😹, I think you wrote this in 2004 (going by the date you put at the end) 🤔😄

        Thanks for your beautiful New Years wishes 😘🥰🌹

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      2. Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm avatar

        heheh, writers are liars yeah!! And you are welcome. 🙂

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      3. .Killa. avatar

        Hehehe, true writers can be liars, but typically that only “fictionally” speaking 👍👍😂😁

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      4. Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm avatar

        There’s a fine line isn’t there? Between everything. Imagination to delusions, fiction to lying, escape to denial.. I find language absolutely amazing.. Right?

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      5. .Killa. avatar

        Yes that is true sweet heart 😆🥰💯. Language is very interesting especially where it concerns words that have very similar meanings/definitions, and in many instances the crux of their core meanings is a very context-sensitive thing 😄😆

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      6. Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm avatar

        The sensitivity depends on the respect we have for each other. If there is respect, it is a conversation. If there is disrespect, it is an argument. Hence I rarely exchange words when I suspect respect is not the table.. 🙂

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      7. .Killa. avatar

        Very true 👏💙☺️🌹. There is the sensitivity of respect, and there is the sensitivity of context. On the sensitivity of respect, I wholeheartedly agree that it doesn’t matter so much what point we are trying to make if there is not a level of respect, because if there is not a level of respect, then things may turn from civil into argumentative shouting matches 🤣🤣.

        On the sensitivity of context: some words have more than one definition even though their primary meanings may have alot in common with another word, and depending on what context or the point we are trying to make, or the scenario we are trying to convey, we may find it more suitable to use a word based on one of its secondary definitions, as oppose to using another word that has a similar primary meaning because [maybe] it has a ring to it, it’s more mainstream, it’s easier to spell ete etc lol.

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      8. Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm avatar

        Ah, yes, the sensitivity of context is what gives us poetry…

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      9. .Killa. avatar

        💯😆 hahaha yes, not just any poetry — it gives us your poetry 👌👌🤣🤩

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      10. Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm avatar

        you sweet talker you.. thank you. 🙂

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      11. .Killa. avatar

        Hahaha you are welcome 🌹😄🫶, and I am flattered by your compliment 😹

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      12. .Killa. avatar

        I meant “flattered” 🤭🤭

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      13. .Killa. avatar

        Awww, thank you very much 😘😍

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  2. vermavkv avatar

    Happy new year

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  3. Mangus Khan avatar

    Internal struggles and unseen fights tell the best stories if we have the courage to listen.

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