THE WRITERS POST (ISSN: 1527-5467) the magazine of Literature & Literature-in-translation. PREMIER ISSUE VOLUME 1 NUMBER 1 JUL 1999

SONG HO ___________________________ THE MOUNTAIN Translated by SONG HO When I see the mountain of Fan-Si-Fan                     Standing lofty in the sky                     In the evening                     With the beautiful sunshine                     It is the happiness of my mind                     It is the happiness of Human Being                     To pursue the ideal of life.                     I will go to the mountain over there                     In many ways                     Although it is separated by obstacles.                     The parting may be in my footsteps.                     The parting may be in my thoughts,                     Or a vital-forced idea.                     Time! Time! Time!                     Sweet or Bitter?                     Effective or devastating?                     The mountain, I haven't seen it, now!                     I haven't seen it now (repeat).                     I was covered with clouds                     With thunder and storm.                     As fire and smoke,                     As ammunition and bombs.                     But the Mountain                     I never forget it.                     I never forget it.                     I never forget it.                     In my childhood I stood                     Under the Kapot-tree.                     Flowers blossoms above me                     In the spring days                     In a deep red.                     A flock of starting twittering, flitting                     from tree to tree.                     And then                     Hurling in to the air.                     A group of white herons spreading wings                     On the golden rice field.                     And a river flowing peaceful.                     It is the happiness of this country                     Simple and real.                     It is also reality.                     As the mountain                     standing lofty in the sky. Translated by SONG HO (This English translation version has been published in Songvan magazine [ISSN 1089-8123, discontinued in 2000], issue 14, Sept 1999, which is under the same ownership and editorship of The Writers Post’s publisher and editor N. Saomai / Nguyen Sao Mai). · THE WRITERS POST (ISSN: 1527-5467), the magazine of Literature & Literature-in-translation. Copyright © 1999 The Writers Post. Nothing in this website may be downloaded, distributed, or reproduced without the permission of the author/ translator/ artist/ and The Writers Post. Creating links to place The Writers Post or any of its pages within other framesets or in other documents is copyright violation, and is not permitted. The Writers Post Jul. 1999 Return to Contents HOME