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Lam Quang My
Sometimes my verse moves as light breeze
Like thin strips of wind after a sudden storm
That turned the landscape into ruin
Sometimes my verse is a young man
His carefree singing while walking on
Who sees some thing at the side of the road – but
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Lam Quang My
The grey asphalt road
Coated with white snow
Looks well
but people slip and fall
Smeared with sand
The road is safe
But sadly asks itself:
“Is this a change for the better?”...Read more of this...
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Lam Quang My
The last word is spoken by the sun
and the afterglow descends.
Sky blue settles on the river bed
Heavy from the longing lost to space
To come back screaming from the wood
Where one waits for an age...
The last ray lies upon the slopes
Late bird calls brothers in vain
The line of the horizon spills to blackness
Against the blackdrop storks turn for their nests
Under shelter...Read more of this...
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Lam Quang My
Evening descends on waves
Waves, upon the shore
My Soul descends to the sea bed
The sea, to the horizon
Something descends upon my heart
As sorrow, longing, pain
Love descends on space
& what descends on love?...Read more of this...
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Lam Quang My
Add stars to summer
add frost to winter
add earthiness to spring
add evening plaits of smoke to winter
add a grain of love to me
add a pinch of charm to you
add dramatic songs to life
add just a little time for withering of love!...Read more of this...
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Lam Quang My
Railway sleepers
live to join two rails
that live apart in pain
for daily trains
Two rails each day will bear
the weight
sharing direction
never one
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Lam Quang My
I tire of stopping wings of summer
You the slow run down of autumn
No boats at anchor in the sea of eyes
The shade of clouds floats melancholy
Does something wait for us
Upon the far horizon…
Winter sits upon the long-drawn barricade
The stones ache under circled wheels
Breeze borne images of mountain thorn and timeless place
Far off singing soothes nostalgic soul
Does someone wait for...Read more of this...
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Lam Quang My
We swear – take not forbidden fruit
But still want paradise!
We pass our wondering years on earth
But knowing naught of life!
We miss the clod beneath our feet
While thought is flying high.
We thought – the heart turned into stone
But still will cry through nights!
Our gain is but a gift to all
But still we count our loss.
We know - life is the branched...Read more of this...
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Lam Quang My
Apart we stay within in each other
Parting – as yesterday alive in the memory –
Boats on the river at sunset
The storm dispersed in a seven-colour rainbow
And since only the sand upon the shore
Awaits our footsteps...Read more of this...
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Lam Quang My
Morning rushes morning
days short love only long
spring summer autumn winter pass
evaporate as water from the shallow stream of time
its rapid flow eroding all but love...Read more of this...
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Lam Quang My
Don’t compare me with flowers
so many kinds of them
so many flowery colors
I simply wish to be the color of earth
from earth - they all will grow...Read more of this...
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Lam Quang My
I listen to the Chopin prelude
Drop by drop
Until they fill the space of my afternoon
With music?
Tears?
Joy or pain?...Read more of this...
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Lam Quang My
The man who tore a slice of heaven
Heard a silent sky
And thought again
And dropped his hand…...Read more of this...
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Lam Quang My
The lightening tears the night – thunder rolls
Bans all coldness from the room
The smell of incense calls to childhood
Pulsating fire recalls the word “Mammy!”...Read more of this...
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Lam Quang My
You sitting by the window
Copy poems with great care.
As I pass accidentally
Watch you dazed as in a dream.
So skilled your calligraphic hand
Floats pen on paper surface.
An unknown sense of poetry
Shines within your blinking eyes.
Window takes the colour green
Your shirt is a canary shade.
Little bird is flying by
And sings with sweetest voice.
Weather mourns autumnally.
Yellowed leaves of trees.
Regret of summer still...Read more of this...
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Lam Quang My
Animal’s intros
Don’t need peoples,
Bang a drum or a gong,
The crowd comes along!...Read more of this...
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Lam Quang My
The night is ill
The moon nurses
Drunken cloud
Wanders ahead
Wind pretends
Great busyness
Rain cries his eyes out
In a worried night
Crowd in your door
Doubt if to go: in or out.
Far road
Moon grants wings to me
I collect dry petals
of last year’s flowers
to bury under them
the distance of my longing...Read more of this...
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Lam Quang My
Each morning go so many ways
Evening all come home.
Will we ever ask ourselves
Where are we this night?...Read more of this...
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Lam Quang My
Once drunk –
I wished to fish the moon
from out a glass of vodka
The vodka spilled
the moon cracked
Once in love
I dared not speak
I left –
with love locked in my heart.
Will I see the moon full ever again?
Will I ever be able to tell the truth?!
It happened once,
But only once.
Long ago
It happened once,
But only once.
When?...Read more of this...
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Lam Quang My
Evening spots of sun spill on the grass
Spilt feelings rest on poems
Moon rests on the ivory clouds
Kite rests on wind
Love without rest like the lost mass in space… ...Read more of this...
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Lam Quang My
At midnight I was woken
By sounds of wind around
A calling comes to me
A voice from far home lands
Unclear voices question
Call from many years
As such voices will
Arising from my heart
Perhaps this trace forgotten
Torn childhoods
Exile voice of soul
Shadow crawl of days
No sun can shine those mornings
Nor can I hear one bird
But never silence falls
On the storm within...Read more of this...
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Lam Quang My
My space had three dimensions
too tight
And then I found the fourth
love without end...Read more of this...
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Lam Quang My
Sometimes I am a leaf of grass,
gently borne upon the water.
Sometimes I am a leaf of grass
struck by a wave and sunk.
Sometimes I am a leaf of grass,
drinking rain the long night through.
Sometimes I am a leaf of grass
dry from thirsting for one drop.
Sometimes I am a leaf of grass
rocking in the softest wind.
Sometimes I am a leaf of grass
trampled...Read more of this...
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Lam Quang My
You are a shrapnel shell
- that tears me in a thousand pieces
Some find their way to heaven
take wing and fly into the eye of the storm
Some fall in the sea
- becoming crystal salt to shine by night.
The rest fall on the paper
- to mark a poem on the page for you...Read more of this...