___________ VIETNAMESE LITERATURE TRANSLATION POETRY ___________

DIEN NGHI ___________________________ A P R I L (This enterpretation by Y Yen) Getting up at broken news in that cursed April The enemy was clenching its claws against Saigon warships deserted, left the port behind and red rockets kept on roaring over our skies A young wife awaiting her lover at the alley gate homless, field boots...littered all round square early rain poured over our Capital, over our fates as though Heaven and Earth were mouring for our nightmares Our wounded friends were soon expelled from hospital’s compounds dragging their disable bodies outside, around military units dipersed - war came to the end VC, did you still behave like men? A young soldier refused to lay down his arm confronted his foes, under our Colors he died rather dead than red, he defended our honor for Vietnam History will be forever starlighted On foreign land, indelible sorrow, retrospective April facing one’s shade at nights pondering on right, evil from two borders South, North, where’s Justice, where’s shame? who wins? who loses? at the end of the game? (This enterpretation by Y Yen) Return to Contents HOME