Kiếp Bèo Mây
Đèn chong, bút đợi, mực mong ngóng
Trăng giãi đầu hiên, vượng ý Thơ
Ta đối đêm khuya - Đèn đối bóng
Say say tỉnh tỉnh ngỡ cơn mơ!
Vui như gió thoảng - Buồn dằng dặc!
Cái kiếp phù sinh, kiếp bèo mây
Hạnh phúc tầm tay còn nghi hoặc
Món nợ đời trai vẫn bủa vây!
Thà như con sóng theo làn nước!
Vắt vẻo đầu ghềnh cuối bãi xa
Núi khuất vầng trăng - Dừng chân bước
Thoảng như là cái bóng mây qua!
Thôi tạm giải sầu bên chị Nguyệt!
Đời là vui gượng giấc cô miên
Đợi mãi một vần Thơ trác tuyệt
Mảnh trăng về sáng vẫn hư huyền!
Xuân Vũ TRẦN ĐÌNH NGỌC
LIFE IS SO EPHEMERAL
I lighted up the lamp from the dark,
Then my pen with its ink has waited for me to write.
Looking at the moon that appeared beyond the verandah making me having poetic inspirations.
I was with the late night as my silhouette with the lamp,
My feeling showed me that perhaps I was in a dream.
The joy and happiness of a man’s life was so short,
But the sadness and unhappiness was so long because
life was just so ephemeral.
Sometimes the happiness was in my hands but I was doubtful because I experienced the fragility of life.
Moreover, I still had the debt toward my country and family!
Sometimes I wished I would be a wave in the ocean,
That climbed over the rocks or the distant shores.
I was walking on the path but I had to stop because the moon was hidden by the high mountain.
Everything appeared then disappeared like flying
clouds in the sky.
I told myself to put my sadness to the moon,
Life was just half of joy - It will never be complete!
I was waiting for some fantastic poems.
Looking at the moon, it was still so legendary!
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