THE WRITERS POST

(ISSN: 1527-5467)
the magazine of Literature & Literature-in-translation.

VOLUME 5 DOUBLE ISSUE WINTER 2003 SPRING 2004

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NGO BICH LAN

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UNDER

THE PURPLE FLOWER

(Translated by THANH-THANH)

 

 

                   In the purple flowers’ shade

                        You kissed me the first kiss.

                        The moon lit its light of jade;

            The cicadas sang their song of bliss.

 

                        Then, time passed fast and blind;

                        You went to your studies above

                        Leaving the purple flowers behind

                        With such a dreamlike love.

 

                        In each letter sent to the old place

                        You said you still missed this start

                        With the purple flowers of grace

                        And this young and true heart.

 

                        I have come back each day alone

                        To see the old flowers obsess

                        And hear the cicadas groan;

                        I feel such a vague distress.

 

                        I have nurtured my pastoral love

                        Now that summer is back to see

                        With the purple flowers above

                        I  am  an  amorous  banyan  tree.

 

 

                   

 · THE WRITERS POST (ISSN: 1527-5467),
the magazine of Literature & Literature-in-translation.

        

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).

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