Poetryzine magazine presents the selected poems by the Vietnamese poet Nguyen Chinh
I like to tell you
I’d like to tell you, your queen I may be
Your heart throne you save for me only
Reviving love is full of the poetic taste of youthful prime
The true, good, and beautiful I’ve sought for a long time
I’d like to tell you: millions of stars in the galaxy
The brightest star must be me, oh, my honey!
Though I’m so diminutive in the vast space
In the dark night, you never mistake my place
I’d like to tell you: my love is naïve and innocent
With a lot of dreams so passionate and ardent
I long for my ambition under the immense sky
A great love might melt my loneliness like ice
Which Eden garden? I still want to seek for the start
The thousand-mile life road I keep my loyal heart
I’d like to tell you: my true love is given obviously
Though life is in the vicissitudes I keep my loyalty
The call of peace from love
Peace is like the bright sunshine
As the source of peaceful beings in life
Like virtue, everybody is desiring
To perform the truth of believing
Using grace to bury hatred emotions
To turn wickedness into compassion
First and foremost peace is sympathy indeed
Then giving up a grudge, eradicating greed
Due to poverty, mercy is a righteous way of Lord
We should have fair behavior to end the war
All nations have the same responsibility
To help all people have a good living, you see
For that result, they must understand to handle
The true, the good and the beautiful as examples
They must admire, adore God, and love human
If they were selfish they’d make chaos homeland
We should agree that the world is a big family
Though we are not the same race and country
But have the same mentality of asking happiness
We should be united to create peace – endless
Mother's words spoken to her daughter
Listen to my teaching, my dear girl!
Half of your life you’ll live with another
You’re still not young, being nurtured
And protected by my arms forever
There will be a day you have a romance
First of all, you think of a young man
Not to think of your mother embracing you
Caressing you to share sadness and joy clues
It will not be simple, my dear girl
Your heart will begin to wander
To be worried about another secrecy
I understand, my girl! The necessaries
I cannot bind you – cannot forbid you
To love your boyfriend who loves you
I cannot even stop you to obtain
Your vow with rivers and mountains
I only consider your chosen lover
For contributing my sincere ideas
About things small in normal life
Loving a young man is a good surprise
You have to contemplate a lot in mind
People usually, analyze noodle and rice
Alas! How is food to compare with girls?
Why do you think yourself to be noodles or rice?
You must be yourself – a woman
Or a kind girl in the eyes of a man
Simply, he divided girls into two kinds
A kind for being loved… another for bye
If not being loved, don't keep anyone
You should not have many loving ones
Don’t worry to lack a man for your choice
You’re so beautiful I don’t like to require
You mustn’t be widely talent, good at all jobs
But you can make money as I always hope
Never depend on anyone on money – never!
Try to make money - a before-eye matter
Although having much money, please decide
Not to rely on it, let be stable your mind
Although you earn more money than he’ll do
Don’t let your lover feels ashamed. It’s true
Don’t be proud of your money earning
When putting on the scale it means nothing
It’s an obligatory relationship you must keep
A woman needs to respect a life partnership
For a sincere man, he’s occasionally pitied
Only because he doesn't know necessaries
If you are in anger, let be calm, in the end
Don’t try to show your heavy discontent
He isn’t patient as you think, I remind
He sometimes looks like a naïve child
Of course, he has a big body but he’s still silly
Be soft, everything has its broken point truly
If two of you are childish, love will be broken
Be an adult, you are at the mature age golden
Dear girl! What he needs you to do, please show!
You must be a serious person, do you know?
You are familiar with him but not boring
You may share but it’s not your burdening
Before marriage, he is not your own sake
Don't be subjective, you’ll make mistakes
If you try to be a good talented woman
I think you should not be in such romance
No one is perfect everyone naturally knows
Don’t be a beautiful doll in the glass window
If you’re high talent no one dares to love you
You should humble to see your position true
For you to know yourself, It will be wiser
You try to show off, the bad fame appears
If you show off, it means you wear a mask
You cannot hide your personal clue at last
The housework you are envious not to do
Surely there will be a break up of you two
Among people, they all know the equality
Loving you he knows how to harmony
Do not be draconian or extremely fair
So you can keep him be at home there
Obey me, do your cooking frequently
During the stormy days in your family
Loyalty is the thing you have to keep
Hand in hand, you don’t rush to leave
There has ever been someone to regret already
She blamed God due to ungraceful, unlucky destiny
You should be smart to get along more or less
I really think you will be in your happiness…
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