Can’t sleep | Hồ Chí Minh

Vietnamese flag on flagpole textile cloth fabric waving on the top sunrise mist fog

thơ Hồ Chí Minh
Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm dịch

2am 4am and it was six
tossing and turning all in the mix
8am 10am in a blink
the soul was engulf in a 5 points yellow star

Thụy bất trước


Nhất canh nhị canh hựu tam canh
Triển chuyển bồi hồi thụy bất thành
Tứ ngũ canh thì tài hợp nhãn
Mộng hồn hoàn nhiễu ngũ tiêm tinh.


Hồ Chí Minh [1890-1969] Bác Hồ, Uncle Ho, the poet was a Vietnamese revolutionary and politician who served as the founder and first president of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam from 1945 until his death in 1969, and as its first prime minister from 1945 to 1955.

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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