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THE WRITERS POST (ISSN: 1527-5467) VOLUME 9 DOUBLE ISSUE JAN 2007 JUL 2007
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SONG HO _____________________________________ MUSICAL INSTRUMENT Translated by the
author The Uc-Trai is Nguyen Trai’s pseudonym. He is a great Vietnamese
hero written The Big public notice to pacify the China invaders in 1428 and later he had been punish- ed by death with the
extermination three generations. This is the most inhuman in the world. The gourd musical instrument. Has a unique string. Why are these sounds. Full of sorrow ? * String was vibrating. To press between the fingers. Grieving. The look of the decapitating. A head falling. The great generosity. Dazzling the sky. For what reason ? An unfair accusation. With three generations. The whole conduct of his life is right. But be defeated. Their dishonest proud and wicked. Also a powerful official are not fine. Difficult to live in peace. And in a poor life. Unlike with glory and money. No near and distant relatives. The merit is big. As the sea without boundary. For a reason with this possession. Unexpected. Harmful to life. The ways of the world. Ungraceful and inhuman. What nerve !The wrong men. With misunderstanding. Become the right ones. To think over. For laying a scheme is really well. To carry out their plan. Taking an opportunity for King’s death. Because of fleshly lusts. Killing the three last names of all families. * His merit has transformed into a felony. Nobody reminds Him. They must keep out of trouble. However, in the rational…interpretation. There are jealousies and party. Discriminations. And provincialism. Earth and Heavens. With inborn virtue. Still Anh Vo alive. (*) To propagate the lineage. The old vigorous style. Brightens unceasingly. Near the nation. Far from foreign countries. That one had killed him. His family and relatives. But not killed his name in his country. It should understand both of them. In the rare reality. That is an extraordinary talent. Words are high as the summit mountains. Sentences as long as the deep rivers. In the immense ocean. Like him in heart and mind. To be in agreement with thoughts. As the moon and stars in sky. Where is the Big public notice to pacify Chinese
invaders?. Has been read already and remembered forever. We want to cut their heads off. A clique of evildoers. * Listen to the
sorrowful sounds of the Gourd musical
instrument. Suddenly the grieved
Uc-Trai’s soul appearing. SONG
HO (Vietnamese version was published in
Khoi Hanh Vietnamese
Culture Magazine # 90, California in 2004) (*) Anh Vo is an
unique child alive from escaping with his mother. He is an infant of another concubine after Nguyen Trai had been punished by death. Three generations are the families of Father’s last name,
Mother’s last name and Wife’s
last name OR three persons’ life: Father and and their children
and relatives ,Mother and her relatives,, himself and his wife relatives.
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