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Watching my baby learn how to roll | Nguyễn Đức Sơn

A poem in Vietnamese by Nguyễn Đức Sơn
Translator: Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm

Zoe & Lan. Photography: Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm

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.

We’ll see | Nguyễn Đức Sơn

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.

Upon the precipice of nothingness | Nguyễn Đức Sơn

Art by Đinh Trường Chinh

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

Upon the precipice of nothingness
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.

Phương Bối at the end of autumn | Nguyễn Đức Sơn

Art by Đinh Trường Chinh

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

Noon waiting alone for someone to turn up
But heaven and earth were neither up nor down
Fell from high up the hill was one guava
The worms devoured one side while I did the other

Cuối thu ở Phương Bối

Trưa đứng một mình đợi ai lên
Đất trời đâu có dưới và trên
Đồi cao ổi sót rụng một trái
Dòi ăn một bên ta một bên.

Thơ Nguyễn Đức Sơn 

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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.

C’est la vie | Nguyễn Đức Sơn

A poem in Vietnamese by Nguyễn Đức Sơn
Translator: Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm

on top of covid by Đinh Trường Chinh

A maimed cricket
With rickety wings
No one cared about
The Ants were all over it at one summer’s end
All alone in this ugly World
Dead amongst the bamboo shoots

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April 2022

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Cảnh đời

Có một con dế què
Cánh mòn đập rè rè
Không ai nghe
Kiến bu trần trụi cuối hè
Một mình trên Trái Đất màu mè
Nằm chết trong lùm tre

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.

A puddle of holy water | Nguyễn Đức Sơn

Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm [2024]

A poem in Vietnamese by Nguyễn Đức Sơn
Translation: Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm

I will come prematurely
lips dry and remote is the G spot
the bush rough and closed up the night whole
you have not peed and yet wet is my soul

Vũng nước thánh



anh sẽ đến bất ngờ ai biết trước
miệng khô rồi nẻo cực lạc xa xôi
ôi một đêm bụi cỏ dáng thu người
em chưa đái mà hồn anh đã ướt
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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 | Nguyễn Đức Sơn

A poem in Vietnamese by Nguyễn Đức Sơn
Translator: Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm

Harvest Moon Photography: Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm

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

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.

NGUYỄN ĐỨC SƠN

Nguyễn Đức Sơn by Đinh Trường Chinh

In Vietnamese by Nguyễn Đức Sơn
Translator: Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm

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.