by Do Mai Hoa

I dream of flying in a balloon,
flying over the volcano sediment of 5000 years of legend
the sky of freedom in a day full of morning sunlight!
a day without you, I am alone in the Cappadocia plateau
but feeling like I can lift the fire sediment…

Cappadocia, Turkey, 2019

by Kieu Bich Hau

I make friends with loneliness
I see its value
From it I create
A higher purpose, an emptiness with meaning
The ever – poetic pilgrim
The perfect love for my princess
The universe has room for all
As the sea in me has room for other salt
It’s joyful meditation
Loneliness – my best friend.

by Kieu Bich Hau

They used to be soldiers
They are poets, too
They sang in the forest
Their tears fell on sacrificed comrades after battles
Beyond the death,
Beyond the life
Beyond the war
They have lived that poetry trend of Vietnam
Forever Vietnam.
And today by the Red River
We sing all together the eternal love song for them

by Kieu Bich Hau

Grows from the mud of samsara
The lotus blooms into endless love verses
Each petal contains a verse
continues to open
open
open more…

When all other people read those verses
The happiness will be released
The light will shine over
The love grows inside all hearts
from a golden seed,
Leave the emptiness in me
A purification
Just being here right now