A leaf

like a leaf when it falls

in death I’m fluttering alone

and you embrace me in the air

like a soft wind you take me along,

then you leave me again alone

down sadly lying on the ground

after that happiness for a moment

with you in the air hovering around,

you fly high up and away

and forget me for ever and so

I quietly long for a fire

to come and burn up my love,

and I’ll cheer up and sing

sending my ash off in the wind

that way oh it means

a love without any meaning !

My wishes

may I create verses

as freely as I breathe,

may I have dreams and wishes

like just now I’m falling in love

with you, oh my sweatheart ,

may I stroll around

this so tiny earth,

may I be a flame

in winter in the desert,

and may I love you

as if you were all humankind,

so that my soul would be

by the side of an old pine-tree

eternally young and naive,

and in a rock crevice

I would see a wild lily,

blossoming in secret

quiet and quietly ...

NGUYEN PHAN THINH

The Writers Post
the magazine of literature

& literature-in-translation,

founded 1999, based in the US.

VOLUME 7 ISSUE 2 JULY 2005

Editorial note: Works published in this issue are simultaneously published in the printed Wordbridge magazine (ISSN: 1540-1723).

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