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A poem in Vietnamese by Nguyễn Đức Sơn
Translator: Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm
Art: Đinh Trường Chinh

Grave by Đinh Trường Chinh

Message

If thee were to care for me at all in the next life

A ghost in a hole long gone

It’s a stretch so take it easy please mate

Why would you place your butt on an abandoned grave

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April 2022

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Nhắn

Đời sau người có thương ta

Từ lâu xuống lỗ làm ma mất rồi

Đường xa thôi miễn bồi hồi

Mả hoang nhảy đại lên ngồi đi cha

Nguyễn Đức Sơn, the poet was born on November 18, 1937, in Du Khanh village, Thanh Hai district, Ninh Thuan province, originally from Thua Thien Hue. He began writing poetry very early with the pen name Sao Trên Rừng, and other pen names like Sơn Núi. On the morning of June 11, 2020, passed away at the age of 83.

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.

One day

A poem in Vietnamese by Nguyễn Đức Sơn
Translator: Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm
Photography: Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm
2019 Harvest Moon

One day

 

One day when hate is nothing but a fog

Blinding will be the Eastern stars across the night sky 

Father will return with the sea and country in his arms

Feet up, limbs abandoned

The only vow between father and son will be is to play night and day

Chasing the ageless clouds

Autumn bursting, grey hair flying

Pointing out how we had aged

Bowing low to kiss the salt of the earth and sky

Father will be but the misty light of an ageless bloomed moon

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May 2022

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Mai kia

 

Mai kia tan biến hận thù

Giữa đêm sao chiếu mịt mù phương đông

Cha về ôm cả biển sông

Duỗi chân duỗi cẳng nằm không một đời

Cho con cha hứa một lời

Đuổi mây thiên cổ rong chơi tối ngày

Thu nào tóc bạc oà bay

Có con chỉ trỏ mới hay cái già

Cúi hôn trời đất đậm đà

Cha tan theo bóng trăng tà vạn niên

Thơ Nguyễn Đức Sơn 

Nguyễn Đức Sơn, the poet was born on November 18, 1937, in Du Khanh village, Thanh Hai district, Ninh Thuan province, originally from Thua Thien Hue. He began writing poetry very early with the pen name Sao Trên Rừng, and other pen names like Sơn Núi. On the morning of June 11, 2020, passed away at the age of 83.

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.

Rest in peace

A poem in Vietnamese by Nguyễn Đức Sơn
Translator: Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm
Art: Đinh Trường Chinh

Rest in peace 

 

The grave will be cold on my return 

The sea of our memories shall be embraced by the wind

Through the scattered trees the full moon cast its shadow

Will you then from this world my love

Harvest enough dreams

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May 2022

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Tịch mạc

 

Rồi mai huyệt lạnh anh về

Ru nhau gió thổi bốn bề biển xưa

Trăng tà đổ bóng cây thưa

Mộng trần gian đã hái vừa chưa em

Thơ Nguyễn Đức Sơn 

Nguyễn Đức Sơn, the poet was born on November 18, 1937, in Du Khanh village, Thanh Hai district, Ninh Thuan province, originally from Thua Thien Hue. He began writing poetry very early with the pen name Sao Trên Rừng, and other pen names like Sơn Núi. On the morning of June 11, 2020, passed away at the age of 83.

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.

To me

A poem in Vietnamese by Nguyễn Đức Sơn
Translator: Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm
Art: Đinh Trường Chinh
Thiếu nữ mùa thu by Đinh Trường Chinh

To me

Girls, you see

They’ll sit and pee

On The World to then

Never be seen again

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April 2022

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Tôi thấy

Con gái

Ngồi đái

Trên Trái Đất

Rồi đi đâu mất

 

thơ Nguyễn Đức Sơn

Nguyễn Đức Sơn, the poet was born on November 18, 1937, in Du Khanh village, Thanh Hai district, Ninh Thuan province, originally from Thua Thien Hue. He began writing poetry very early with the pen name Sao Trên Rừng, and other pen names like Sơn Núi. On the morning of June 11, 2020, passed away at the age of 83.

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.

Yeah, something like that

A poem in Vietnamese by Nguyễn Đức Sơn
Translator: Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm
Art: Đinh Trường Chinh
Starbuck by Đinh Trường Chinh

Yeah, something like that

 

Nearly sixty

Writing poetry like a twenty year old

A mystic mountain surrounded by orangutans

I’ve been searching for people all day

Your hair was light in the breeze that time

The abandoned hut lay there dreaming of two hands pulling down its pants

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April 2022

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Ừ, vậy đó

 

Đã gần sáu chục tuổi rồi

Làm thơ trắc nết như hồi hai mươi

Núi thần vây bủa đười ươi

Lang thang tôi kiếm con người hôm nay

Gặp em thuở tóc đang bay

Chòi hoang nằm mộng hai tay tuột quần

 

thơ Nguyễn Đức Sơn

Nguyễn Đức Sơn, the poet was born on November 18, 1937, in Du Khanh village, Thanh Hai district, Ninh Thuan province, originally from Thua Thien Hue. He began writing poetry very early with the pen name Sao Trên Rừng, and other pen names like Sơn Núi. On the morning of June 11, 2020, passed away at the age of 83.

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.

Upon the precipice of nothingness

A poem in Vietnamese by Nguyễn Đức Sơn
Translator: Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm
Art: Đinh Trường Chinh
At the precipice by Đinh Trường Chinh

A starry night in the trees

In a race to fall upon humanity

A celebration of trees and spirit

On the verge of tears were the boundless dreams

A golden age a river of dreams a sky filled with poetry

I am a man upon my death at the precipice of nothingness.

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April 2022

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Trên bờ hư không

Một đêm sao ở trên rừng

Đua nhau rụng xuống chào mừng nhân gian

Hồn tôi cây cối liên hoan

Rưng rưng tôi thấy trăm ngàn ước mơ

Tuổi vàng suối mộng trời thơ

Lớn lên tôi chết trên bờ hư không.

Thơ Nguyễn Đức Sơn 

Nguyễn Đức Sơn, the poet was born on November 18, 1937, in Du Khanh village, Thanh Hai district, Ninh Thuan province, originally from Thua Thien Hue. He began writing poetry very early with the pen name Sao Trên Rừng, and other pen names like Sơn Núi. On the morning of June 11, 2020, passed away at the age of 83.

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.

We’ll see

A poem in Vietnamese by Nguyễn Đức Sơn
Translator: Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm
Art: Đinh Trường Chinh
Shy by Đinh Trường Chinh

We’ll see

Touch me

And they’ll be a baby

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April 2022

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Cho mà xem

Đừng đụng em

Em đẻ

Nguyễn Đức Sơn, the poet was born on November 18, 1937, in Du Khanh village, Thanh Hai district, Ninh Thuan province, originally from Thua Thien Hue. He began writing poetry very early with the pen name Sao Trên Rừng, and other pen names like Sơn Núi. On the morning of June 11, 2020, passed away at the age of 83.

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.

Watching my baby learn how to roll

A poem in Vietnamese by Nguyễn Đức Sơn
Translator: Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm
Photography: Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm
Zoe & Mum Baptism

Hold on and roll child

Curl up like a chubby little rock and roll

So that life may be more of a stroll

Get used to losing your balance so on so and so on

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May 2022

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Nhìn con tập lật

Nắm tay lật úp đi con

Co thân tròn trịa như hòn đá lăn

Muốn cho đời sống không cằn

Tập cho quen mất thăng bằng từ đây

Nguyễn Đức Sơn, the poet was born on November 18, 1937, in Du Khanh village, Thanh Hai district, Ninh Thuan province, originally from Thua Thien Hue. He began writing poetry very early with the pen name Sao Trên Rừng, and other pen names like Sơn Núi. On the morning of June 11, 2020, passed away at the age of 83.

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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