Best Vietnamese Poems
A Vietnamese Wedding Partya long parade of guests in pairs, longing for a chair or two,
a hundred or so, and their ice-creamed children,
pushing through the market sounds, the glistening fish and meat,
against the dying piggy- squeals, by the river’s flowing feet
wearing blacks and browns, some with...
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Categories:
vietnamese, love, lust, men, wedding,
Form:
Free verse
Mrs. Quincy's Twin Vietnamese Spotted Ponies"Der aint nothin wrong with dat,"
said Haile Brown.
Mrs. Quincy's twin Vietnamese spotted ponies
had been shot
both dead
for trespassing on L. Ron Clark's property.
"They scared my sheep.
Chased em all over the place.
Aint gonna put up with none of that,"
said L. Ron Clark.
"Reckon she shoulda penned em up.
Cant...
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Categories:
vietnamese, social
Form:
Narrative
Answer To the Vietnamese EnemyI knew you don't go in,
But I wasn't coming out.
When you're a fish in the fish bowl
Going belly up....
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Categories:
vietnamese, war,
Form:
Free verse
Vietnamese Tiger Bone PasteVietnamese Tiger Bone Paste
How can it be? That a magnificent tiger gets turned into bone paste? I never knew it was possible. The email I got confirmed it was. Sign the petition they asked.
I did.
It's in Vietnam. Here the tigers are killed and...
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Categories:
vietnamese, animal, conflict, death, horror,
Form:
Verse
Ode To a Vietnamese Doughnutshe says she is tired
she says
...things are not going so
well
she says
she can't hang her paintings
cause
the space isn't
right
she says
...things are not
going
not going so
well
i light a single stick
cheap
chinatown
incense
it worked in the 15 by 15 foot
buddhist temple
red
by the
freeway
for my
son
snuggling on my chest
my room is 15 by 15...
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Categories:
vietnamese, allegory
Form:
Blank verse
Ho Xuan Huong English Translations from the VietnameseHo Xuan Huong (1772-1882) was a risqué Vietnamese poetess. She has been called the BEST Vietnamese poet, a proto-feminist, and "the candid voice of a liberal female in a male-dominated society."
?c Nh?i ("The Snail")
by Ho Xuan Huong
translation by Michael R. Burch
My parents produced...
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Categories:
vietnamese, animal, body, heart, nature,
Form:
Free verse
Vietnamese RestaurantVIETNAMESE RESTAURANT
September afternoon in Saigon,
Delicately-embroidered decorative
Cloth-pieces on furniture,
From the French imperial era.
Scary African wood-carvings,
And my little girl frightened to even look
At some of the wooden masks.
Table in the near dark: ...
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Categories:
vietnamese, places
Form:
Free verse
Vietnamese and Cantonese
Nguyen was quite a linguist
She spoke
Chinese
Japanese
Taiwanese
Vietnamese &
...
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Categories:
vietnamese, giggle, language, word play,
Form:
Rhyme
A Vietnamese WomanI met a vietnamese woman in the C.B.D
She looked little, though, but truly dainty
We talked over fates and one's lot
I found her charitable and thoughty
The buddhism allotted her classy
Which brought the meeting a bit lucky
I imagined she might be an embodiment
Delivering me...
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Categories:
vietnamese, 1st grade, beauty, care,
Form:
Free verse
The Unfortunate Plight of Women by Ho Xuan Huong - English Translation by Michael R BurchHo Xuan Huong (1772-1882) was a risqué Vietnamese poetess. She has been called "the candid voice of a liberal female in a male-dominated society."
The Unfortunate Plight of Women
by Ho Xuan Huong
translation by Michael R. Burch
Hey sisters, do you know?
The baby bawls at your breast
While...
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Categories:
vietnamese, baby, children, husband, sister,
Form:
Free verse