NHIEN NGUYEN MD Poems

After five more days, full moon will be here.
Swimming on my back, I watch evergreen pine trees.
Their branches sway gently with passing breeze.
Under light blue sky, flies a flock of geese.
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It has been a long time and now you come to visit.
My young children are not at home and market place is too far.
Fish pond is wide and deep so it's difficult to net a fish.
Garden is large and poorly enclosed so it's hard to catch a chicken.
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Under high sky with silver clouds and full moon
A dike sighs its solitude while bamboo trees rhyme sad tunes.
Kite flute calls for more melodious winds
Tree branches sway gently with soft moonlight.
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The Hospital is on the hill
It's on the slope of the Butler road.
Along this winding country road
Flowering corn fields and amber wheat fields are inviting.
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You look elegant in your attire

As you walk in your new dress, the gift from our daughter-in-law.
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It's already afternoon, sunshine covers only one half of the beach.
In wild garden, mimosa leaflets fold in their sorrows,
A spider is busy in spinning its silk of sadness.
My dear! please close your eyes to sleep...
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My five-room straw hut is just a low dwelling

Along a dark alley, fire-worms twinkle late into the night
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Loving me, you let your long hair grow.
All these long and short hair strands are full of love.
Every strand of your hair shines your ties of affection.
Which strand holds morning love, which one evening love?
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Why don't you return here, to visit Vĩ hamlet?
To watch rising sun shining over rows of betel palm trees.
Someone's garden is lush with jade green color
Bamboo leaves shade across a square face.
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To my wife Kim Mai

Today is our January ninth
We celebrate our anniversary of the day we married.
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