Rain artist | Sấu Mã

Rain by Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm

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

Drew flowers
Without the blooms
Just stems

The portrait denied display
Seems inhuman
The dragonfly
Perched on the stem tip

After many years forgets to fly. 

HOẠ SĨ MƯA

Vẽ hoa
Không tràng hoa
Chỉ cuống

Bức tranh bị từ chối trưng bày
Thấy bất nhẫn 
Con chuồn chuồn
Đậu lên đầu cuống

Bao năm rồi quên bay.

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.

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

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