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

PHAM MANH VIEN _______________ FAREWELL, MUSIC Translated by the author  Alone, I listened to the wind blowing On the desert and familiar path Now high, now low, the song was rising The sad river offered its farewell music PURIFICATION Thrown into the sun, my Muse is sleeping She is sleeping in a diamond sleep Which purifies her ancient body The fire has carbonized the narrow frame of poetry It is vast. it is vast, the sky of the dream! The subconscious becomes bright as white silk, My feeling are blue, so are my thoughts. In the spring forest, phoenixes dance joyously, Jumping over the rainbow, I welcome again my Muse.  PHAM MANH VIEN (This English translation version has been published in Songvan magazine (ISSN 1089-8123), issue 12 & 13, 1998, 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