Poems by Nghiem Thi Hang from Vietnam

 

Poems by Nghiem Thi Hang from Vietnam

Her biography:

She isjournalist, writer, researcher. Born in 1955 in Hanoi; Member of Vietnamese Journalists Association; Member of Vietnamese Writers’ Association; Member of VietnameseLawyers Association.

Published works:

Poetry: The autumn rain of 1990; The confession of the sea 1996; The whisper 1997; The Blue Song 1999; The Castle on the Sand 2007.

Research: Uncovering the mystery of female poet Ho Xuan Huong in 2021

Novel: The echo of Ho Xuan Huong 2022

Second Prize in Literature and Art of VinhPhu Province. There are more 200 poems set to music, in which many of popular songs won the music awards of the Vietnam Composers Association.

Her poems:

Can turn to the way before?

Years are the time

Recording lots of memories

Which memory do you remember?

Which sadness do I forget?

The nameless memories

Sad stories not mentioned again

The sunshine calls the rain away

Remaining our love story.

You were of the past

Is it different now?

I was of the past

Now still dreaming.

Still counting the sunshine and rain

But not full of memories

Gathering a broken piece of love

Cannot heal the time.

Which sadness do I forget?

Which love story do you remember?

The river flows throughout flood seasons

Can turn to the way before?

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Theconfession of the sea

This afternoon you and I

Floating back to Yen island

Listening silently to words of the sea

Its confession of the love couple

Be salty like salt

Keeping love words of the sea

Be faithful like a shore

Waiting for your boat to anchor.

Dear, I have beenlistening

In the far afternoon, the sea sings

Light waves kiss the sand

Light afternoon kisses the yellow sunshine.

Your hometown is in NhaTrangsea

Listening to the sound of waves in Thap Ba

Green coconuts are sunbathing

The bell rings in the afternoon.

Many couples are in love

So many small islands in the sea

The Chong Green is standing there

It's the couple love

Wait for me, mylove

The boat will return to the shore

The confession of the sea

Falling the yellow sunshine of NhaTrang.

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Melting

The moon is still just the moon

If it is lonely

The sea with thousands of waves

Still alone and lonely.

If love doesn't give each other

I'm like the lonely moon

You are the sea embracing the sorrow

Whitehair with countless layers of waves.

The moon melts into the seabed

I melt into your love

The sea melts in salt

The sky melts in blue eyes.

Waves melt on the sand

A kiss melts on the lips

A love melts the thirst

Melting the bitterness of life.

Melting the sunshine into the wind

Melting the wind into the clouds

Melting the earth into water

Melting the grass into the tree.

Melting the excess into the shortage

Lives melt into each other

Creating many miracles

Melting is for not alone.

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The season of brassica napus flowers

There is the season of brassica napusflowers

Blooming yellow by the riverside

I'm at puberty

Waiting for you, not married.

You are too shy to dare

Picking a flower

Afraid that a white butterfly

Startlingto fly to the other side of the river.

Already passing many seasons

Only you knew

You did not dare to pick them up

The flowers flew to the sky.

Memorizing the afternoon of the beach village

No more flowers

Who brought you back

The day I got married

You sow the seeds again

Silently waiting for again

There is a girl

Waiting for you, not married.

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The Waiting Market

The Waiting Market - I'm not waiting for

You come back at noon after the market is over

Looking for me in a daze

The sunshine falls sadly.

Why did you keep me waiting for?

The Waiting Market at noon has ended

Green betel picked by my hands

Waiting for you to turn yellow.

The Waiting Market in the past

You missed it once

The Cau River flew quietly

Gone with many springs.

You go to the Waiting Market again

Where is thefamiliarimage

The Waiting Market at noon has ended

You just stand there in a daze.

(Translated into English by Khanh Phuong)