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THE WRITERS POST (ISSN: 1527-5467) VOLUME 5 DOUBLE ISSUE WINTER 2003 SPRING 2004
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N. SAOMAI
_______________________________ THE
CONCLUSION
(translated by the author) At
hilltop, the old man stopped, dropped
his life rolling
down the slope¾ into
dream. From
the youth's reverie now in dance the
hundred-years sorrow squirmed waving its hands. In
the life-long humane dream so short Bashfully
the paper’s soul smiled taking her clothes off. Life
had failed, a stirring voice rose Their
arms ached¾ as the spring candle burnt
low. Flowers,
into the world of love, blossomed
brave new ¾for resting butterflies. But
the bees, hiding honey, were blind drunk 'ready Even
as bees and butterflies flied onto pages full of words The
nearness still fell thousand miles apart. She,
who put onto her cheeks the rosy sun and
drawn her eyebrows the curve of mountain, went
away taking to different place Heaven and Earth, let
drift and revolve bewildered this now loveless world. And
over the dead body of remaining sorrow Wind
climbed, as days entangled in days. Doors
had shut the road to guile. Man
were calling man, why the call so downhearted? As
he sat picturing them old figures, mountains
and rivers into existence came. In
the stone that contained the vacuity of life there
were old ghosts carrying its common tomb. At
a place where the poem of no-word swept
away the lisping poems of the Bard life
seemed as new as never it could be seen, and
was talking and laughing the earth without Man. N. SAOMAI (translated from the original ‘Ket
Luan’ published in Song Van magazine,
issue 14, 1999) · THE WRITERS POST (ISSN:
1527-5467), VOLUME 5 DOUBLE ISSUE WINTER 2003 - SPRING 2004 Editorial
note: All
works published in this issue are simultaneously published in the printed
Wordbridge magazine double issue 3 &4 Winter 2003 & Spring 2004.
(ISSN: 1540-1723). Copyright
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