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   SoundEagle 🦅ೋღஜஇ

   Aug 15, 2022

   Dear Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm,

   What a wonderful English translation you have done for this poem entitled “Anh đầu thai vào đời em mỗi sáng” (“I’m reborn at dawn in your life”) by Vietnamese poet and activist, the late Huy Cận, to whom this is a lovely tribute!

   I would like to inform you that there are other creative ways for two poets to interact. You might be very interested to know that I have also been involved in collaborative poetry, insofar as one of my best English poems, which has a tetrapartite structure and is fully illustrated and also dynamically animated, has been translated into Chinese by a very talented bilingual poet, who has taken on the challenge in stages. In general, when someone has mastered Chinese to a very high level, they will even be able to translate a rhyming English poem into a Chinese poem that also rhymes! This is very difficult to achieve, as most translators dealing with any language(s) do not have the ability to ensure that the poem also rhymes perfectly in another language when translated.

   You can see this highly successful example of translating poem at one of my posts, which is entitled “If My Name Were Moon Tonight… (假如今夜我的名字叫月亮…)“, and is available at

   🌕🎴 假如今夜我的名字叫月亮… (If My Name Were Moon Tonight…) 🌛🌝🎑🈷

   If you are interested in translating this poem of mine into Vietnamese, I shall be delighted and honoured.

   Happy mid-August to you and your family!

   Yours sincerely,
   SoundEagle

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      Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm

      Aug 15, 2022

      Thank you so much for your kind thoughts and encouragement. But, currently translating into Vietnamese is still a difficult task, since English is my first language. May be in a few years.

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         SoundEagle 🦅ೋღஜஇ

         Aug 15, 2022

         Dear Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm,

         I shall wait for you with patience. You are welcome to use my said poem as a target for practicing translation.

         You will be pleased to know that in my said post, there is the great fun of watching my dynamic animation produced in high resolution (1920 x 1280) synchronized perfectly to Debussy’s Clair de Lune. The effects are going to be great on the large screen of your desktop or laptop. Moreover, you should be able to see that the entire post from top to bottom is full of eye-catching animations. However, if you view the post inside the WordPress Reader and not directly from my blog, you will see none of the animations and bespoke stylings, and there will be a great deal of missing contents. The difference is literally one between day and night.

         This animation-intensive post is the result of my dramatic attempt to bring the Full Moon alive, so to speak, in the form of Music Animation with Dynamic Visualization presented in high definition and imbued with a scintillating full moon surrounded by eye-catching astronomical phenomena and stellar activities!

         As mentioned, the post contains a tetrapartite poem with twelve rhyming stanzas constituting my rhyming poem entitled “If My Name Were Moon Tonight…“. There is also the opportunity to savour my own rendition of “Clair de Lune” recorded on the organ. I look forward to interacting with you and reading your feedback at my said post.

         I welcome your input and am curious to know what you make of my said post. Please enjoy!

         Thank you once again for resonating with me through your poetry and translation. It is a precious gift that you possess with charm, and that will improve even more in the future.

         Yours sincerely,
         SoundEagle

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         Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm

         Aug 15, 2022

         Cheers to the future my friend!

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