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THANH
THANH
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Three poems by THANH THANH
FAMILIAR
There are paths and
persons known to each other
Since the couple began to
date one another.
Her hair flowing over his
shoulder used to rejoice;
And how sweet did sound
the sweetheart’s voice!
Unexpected chats though
without themes were bright
And thus continued
endlessly night after night.
The gates usually were not
shut at that section:
Unchained dogs followed
us, barking to no objection.
Covering her sight from
the dazzle with a small hand,
There was a school-girl
with homework gone bland;
Innermostly stirred in her virginal
soul of a gal,
She seemed to dream a
moment of some future pal.
Here tonite
to this old path familiar since long ago
We are coming back to
revive our youth glow.
Husband and wife at dogs
barking and running after
Look at one another,
convulsed with laughter.
Were our love in those
green days let to disappear,
How could we have our easy
mind in this nite sphere:
We walk on the old path of familiarity
permanent
And embrace in our four arms the wide
firmament...
(from “This Land of Promises”)
THANK YOU, AMERICA
Thank you, America, for rescuing
us from hell,
Humble humans deprived of all
rights to life.
In our old country our enemies
cruelly quell
Laborers, intellects,
revolutionaries, monks alike.
Thank you, America, for teaching us
systematism
Thereupon military is only a part
of attribution.
In our late republic existed
militarism
Causing dictatorship to erode the
constitution.
Thank you, America, for the example
to settle
The separation between politics and
religion.
In our poor nation the priests did
meddle
In worldly powers, and it was
mutual demolition.
Thank you, America, for granting us
medium
To develop our bodies and expand
our minds.
In our left-behind state there is
no freedom
To work and enjoy, think and
express any kinds.
Thank you, America, for nursing us
deep hope
For a near future we can True
Virtue attain
So that our Motherland emerge on
the globe,
Our People, with your help, Man’s
Value regain.
OWING TO EVE
Of what is good and of what
is bad,
The human race owes this knowledge
to Eve.
By getting herself and Adam in fig
leaves clad,
She was the first human Wisdom to
conceive.
Alas! after that they were into a
dilemma put
Between conservative hold and
radical edification.
The libertine wanted to reject
mythical root
And the ascetic to stand absurd
predestination.
That is why even Noah’s descendants
Rebelled against God, building the
Babel tower,
While the self-claimed Creator’s
dependants,
Inquisitors, persecuted people to
impose power.
We, today, have found no waters
above the dome
(But many suns, the Big Bang, the
Black Hole)!
Much older than six thousand years:
Man’s home!
Organ implants, test tube babies:
non-God’s role!
Determined not to use Wisdom to
sham,
Humankind is to improve and perfect
human life.
One should no longer remain as meek
as a lamb
But follow Eve who has ventured
that first stride.
THANH-THANH
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THE WRITERS POST (ISSN:
1527-5467),
the magazine of Literature & Literature-in-translation.
VOLUME
7 ISSUE 1 JAN
2005
Editorial
note:
Works published in this issue may be simultaneously published in the printed Wordbridge Magazine Issue 6 January 2005 (ISSN:
1540-1723).
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