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<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/br><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">M\u1edbi \u0111\u00f3… m\u00e0 \u0111\u00e3 50 n\u0103m<br \/>\nK\u1ec3 t\u1eeb ng\u00e0y \u201cm\u1ed9t-ch\u00edn-b\u1ea3y-l\u0103m\u201d<br \/>\nTh\u1eddi gian l\u01b0\u1edbt \u0111i th\u1eadt nhanh<br \/>\nNh\u00ecn l\u1ea1i m\u1ed9t th\u1eddi xu\u00e2n xanh<br \/>\nM\u00e0 t\u01b0\u1edfng nh\u01b0 gi\u1ea5c m\u01a1 hoa \u0111\u00eam m\u00f9a h\u1ea1!<\/p>\n<p>Soi b\u00f3ng m\u00ecnh trong g\u01b0\u01a1ng th\u1ea5y l\u1ea1<br \/>\nT\u00f3c \u0111\u00e3 b\u1ea1c m\u00e0u, m\u00e1 h\u00f3p, da nh\u0103n<br \/>\nL\u00f2ng ch\u1ee3t d\u1ea5y l\u00ean nhi\u1ec1u n\u1ed7i b\u0103n kho\u0103n<br \/>\nKhi b\u00f3ng d\u00e1ng qu\u00ea h\u01b0\u01a1ng ch\u1eadp ch\u1eddn tr\u01b0\u1edbc m\u1eaft<br \/>\nRu\u1ed9t gan co th\u1eaft<br \/>\nN\u01b0\u1edbc m\u1eaft ch\u1ef1c tr\u00e0o<br \/>\nTh\u01b0\u01a1ng qu\u00e1 ch\u1eebng hai ti\u1ebfng \u201cm\u1ea7y tao\u201d<br \/>\nTh\u01b0\u01a1ng nghi\u1ec7p d\u0129 m\u1ed9t th\u1eddi l\u00e0m l\u00ednh chi\u1ebfn<br \/>\nNay t\u1ea5t c\u1ea3 \u0111\u00e3 tr\u1edf th\u00e0nh mi\u00ean vi\u1ec5n<br \/>\nRi\u00eang tao ph\u01b0\u01a1ng n\u00e0y v\u1eabn nh\u1edb \u0111\u1ebfn t\u1ee5i b\u00e2y<br \/>\nNh\u1ea5t l\u00e0 l\u1ea7n t\u01b0\u1edfng ni\u1ec7m n\u0103m nay<br \/>\nC\u00e1i m\u1ed1c th\u1eddi gian – 50 n\u0103m nghi\u1ec7t ng\u00e3<br \/>\nV\u1eabn nh\u1edb nh\u01b0 in, t\u1eebng c\u00e1nh chim v\u1ed9i v\u00e3<br \/>\nL\u00eca b\u1ecf qu\u00ea h\u01b0\u01a1ng, b\u1ecf c\u1ea3 gia \u0111\u00ecnh<br \/>\nTao th\u01b0\u01a1ng th\u00e2n tao<br \/>\nTh\u01b0\u01a1ng l\u0169 ch\u00fang m\u00ecnh<br \/>\nNh\u01b0ng kh\u00f4ng ti\u1ebfc \u0111\u00e3 sanh l\u1ea7m th\u1ebf k\u1ef7<br \/>\nTao b\u00e2y gi\u1edd s\u1ed1ng kh\u00f4ng b\u00ecnh y\u00ean tr\u00ean \u0111\u1ea5t M\u1ef9<br \/>\nNh\u00ecn b\u00f3ng chi\u1ec1u t\u00e0 ti\u1ebfc m\u1ed9t \u0111\u1eddi trai!<\/p>\n<p>B\u1eb1ng h\u1eefu \u01a1i!<br \/>\n\u0110\u00eam nay…<br \/>\nTao l\u1ea1i nh\u1edb \u0111\u1ebfn ch\u00fang m\u1ea7y<br \/>\nNh\u1eefng th\u1eb1ng b\u1ea1n, \u0111\u00e3 m\u1ed9t th\u1eddi, c\u00f9ng v\u00e0o sanh ra t\u1eed<br \/>\nTao c\u1ed1 b\u1eb7m gan s\u1ed1ng \u0111\u1eddi l\u1eef th\u1ee9<br \/>\nNh\u01b0ng kh\u00f4 c\u1ea1n d\u1ea7n m\u1ed7i \u0111\u1ed9 th\u00e1ng t\u01b0<br \/>\n\u0110\u00eam nay r\u01b0\u1ee3u b\u1ed7ng th\u1eeba d\u01b0<br \/>\nB\u00ean ngo\u00e0i tr\u1eddi t\u1ed1i \u0111en nh\u01b0 m\u1ef1c<br \/>\n\u0110\u00e3 khuya l\u1eafm tao v\u1eabn ng\u1ed3i canh th\u1ee9c<br \/>\nU\u1ed1ng r\u01b0\u1ee3u khan, ng\u00e2m b\u1ea3n H\u1ed3 Tr\u01b0\u1eddng<br \/>\nC\u1ea7m chai r\u01b0\u1ee3u trong tay \u0111\u01b0a b\u1ed1n h\u01b0\u1edbng t\u00e1m ph\u01b0\u01a1ng<br \/>\nV\u1eabn \u201ckh\u00f4ng bi\u1ebft r\u00f3t v\u1ec1 \u0111\u00e2u<br \/>\n\u0110\u00e2u ng\u01b0\u1eddi tri k\u1ef7\u201d (*)<br \/>\n50 n\u0103m!<br \/>\nS\u1ed1ng tha h\u01b0\u01a1ng tao nghi\u1ec7m ra ch\u00e2n l\u00fd<br \/>\n\u201cM\u1ed7i m\u1ed9t con ng\u01b0\u1eddi ch\u1ec9 c\u00f3 m\u1ed9t qu\u00ea h\u01b0\u01a1ng\u201d<br \/>\nL\u0169 ch\u00fang m\u00ecnh:<br \/>\n\u0110\u1ee9a v\u00f9i s\u00e2u trong l\u00f2ng \u0111\u1ea5t l\u1ea1nh<br \/>\n\u0110\u1ee9a b\u1ecf x\u00e1c \u0111\u1ea1i d\u01b0\u01a1ng<br \/>\nD\u0103m ba \u0111\u1ee9a kh\u1eafp ch\u00e2n tr\u1eddi g\u00f3c b\u1ec3<br \/>\nD\u00f9 cu\u1ed9c s\u1ed1ng ra sao c\u0169ng kh\u00f4ng bao gi\u1edd v\u00e0 kh\u00f4ng th\u1ec3<br \/>\nQu\u00ean b\u1ecf \u0111\u01b0\u1ee3c ph\u1ea7n \u0111\u1ea5t t\u1ed5 qu\u00ea cha<\/p>\n<p>\u0110\u00f4i l\u00fac c\u00f3 ng\u01b0\u1eddi n\u00f3i \u201cch\u00fang m\u00ecnh \u0111\u00e3 gi\u00e0\u201d<br \/>\nN\u00ean tao c\u1ed1 g\u1ecdi ch\u00fang m\u1ea7y b\u1eb1ng ti\u1ebfng \u201canh\u201d trang tr\u1ecdng<br \/>\nNh\u01b0ng nghe ch\u00ednh ti\u1ebfng m\u00ecnh v\u1eabn t\u01b0\u1edfng \u0111\u00e2u th\u1eb1ng n\u00e0o n\u00f3i ng\u1ecdng<br \/>\nHa h\u1ea3 c\u01b0\u1eddi… g\u00e0o hai ti\u1ebfng \u201cm\u1ea7y tao\u201d<br \/>\nR\u01b0\u1ee3u H\u1ed3 Tr\u01b0\u1eddng, c\u00f3 c\u00f2n ngh\u0129 \u0111\u1ebfn nhau<br \/>\nXin n\u00e2ng ch\u00e9n d\u00f9 ch\u00fang m\u00ecnh \u1edf \u0110\u00f4ng T\u00e2y Nam B\u1eafc<br \/>\nCh\u00fang m\u00ecnh d\u00f9 nh\u01b0 ng\u1ecdn \u0111\u00e8n d\u1ea7u leo l\u00e9t<br \/>\nXin \u0111\u01b0\u1ee3c m\u1ed9t ph\u00fat huy ho\u00e0ng tr\u01b0\u1edbc l\u00fac xu\u00f4i tay (**)<\/p>\n<p>\u0110\u00eam nay r\u01b0\u1ee3u u\u1ed1ng qu\u00ean say<br \/>\nNh\u1edb \u0111\u1ebfn ch\u00fang m\u1ea7y\u2026 n\u01b0\u1edbc m\u1eaft \u0111\u1ea7y v\u01a1i<\/p>\n<p><\/br><br \/>\n<\/BR><\/p>\n<p align= \"right\"><strong>LET’S TOAST FOR A HO TRUONG’s WINE CUP (*)<\/p>\n<p align= \"right\"><em>Translated by Jenny Ai Trinh<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<\/BR><\/p>\n<p align= \"right\">Just then\u2026 50 years have passed by<br \/>\nSince “nineteen-seven-five”<br \/>\nTime is fleeting and quickly flies<br \/>\nLooking back to my youthful life<br \/>\nJust like a flower dream in a summer night!<\/p>\n<p align= \"right\">It’s strange to see yourself in the mirror light<br \/>\nWith grey hair, sunken cheeks, wrinkled skin, and bad eyes<br \/>\nA lot of anxiety suddenly rises up high<br \/>\nThe shade of homeland flickers before my eyes<br \/>\nMy heart is trembling and about to cry<br \/>\nTears well up deeply inside<br \/>\nThe lovely two words “you, me” sound so nice<br \/>\nwhen I once lived a soldier\u2019s life<br \/>\nNow all has become forever, right?<br \/>\nI still remember you from another side<br \/>\nEspecially in this year’s memorial<br \/>\nThe milestone – 50 grim years, is just sorrow<br \/>\nStill remember well, in a hurry, the bird flied<br \/>\nLeaving the homeland and the whole family behind<br \/>\nI love myself<br \/>\nAnd all of you as well<br \/>\nBut no regret to be born in the century of hell<br \/>\nI am living in the unrest America day and night<br \/>\nLooking at the sunset regretting my youthful life!<\/p>\n<p align= \"right\">My friends!<br \/>\nTonight\u2026<br \/>\nI remember all of you again for some time<br \/>\nFriends, once upon a time, together we risked our lives<br \/>\nI try hard to live my nomad\u2019s life<br \/>\nThat dries up when each April arrives<br \/>\nTonight drinks get me up high<br \/>\nIt was pitch dark outside<br \/>\nIt’s too late I still sit thru the night<br \/>\nReciting Ho Truong, drinking bitter wine<br \/>\nHolding a bottle of wine in hand, my head held high<br \/>\nIn four directions and eight regions<br \/>\nStill “don’t know where to pour the wine<br \/>\nWhere is my soulmate “(*)<\/p>\n<p>50 years!<br \/>\nI figure out the truth when living in exile<br \/>\n“Each one has only one homeland”<br \/>\nThis is us:<br \/>\nWho were buried deep in the cold ground<br \/>\nWho died in the ocean, who drowned<br \/>\nWho have drifted away all over the world now<br \/>\nWhatever life is, impossible and never<br \/>\nTo Forget about the homeland of our father<\/p>\n<p align= \"right\"> Sometimes I heard people say “we are old”<br \/>\nSo I try to call you respectfully “brother”<br \/>\nBut listening to my own voice\u2018s like listening to a lisper<br \/>\nHaha, laughing… then screaming “you, me” ever<br \/>\nDrinking Ho Truong wine, still thinking about each other<br \/>\nPlease have a toast<br \/>\nThough we are in the north,<br \/>\nwest, east, or south whoever thought<br \/>\nWe are like a flickering oil lamp<br \/>\nMay we have a moment of glory before we are damned (**)<\/p>\n<p align= \"right\"> Tonight I drink, yet can not feel the wine<br \/>\nThought of you guys\u2026 my tears entwine. <\/p>\n<p><\/br><\/p>\n<p align= \"right\">\n<p>———————–<br \/>\n(*) B\u00e0i th\u01a1 H\u1ed3 Tr\u01b0\u1eddng c\u1ee7a Nguy\u1ec5n B\u00e1 Tr\u00e1c<br \/>\n(**) Trong b\u00e0i th\u01a1 “Gi\u1ee5c Gi\u00e3” c\u1ee7a Xu\u00e2n Di\u1ec7u:<br \/>\n\u201cTh\u00e0 m\u1ed9t ch\u00fat huy ho\u00e0ng r\u1ed3i ch\u1ee3t t\u1ed1i<br \/>\nC\u00f2n h\u01a1n bu\u1ed3n le l\u00f3i su\u1ed1t tr\u0103m n\u0103m\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/br><br \/>\n<strong>INVITING FRIEND A GLASS OF HO TRUONG WINE (*)<br \/>\nby Vuong Thanh<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Seemed not long ago, yet it\u2019s been 50 years, .<br \/>\nSince that day in \u201cone-nine-seven-five\u201d.<br \/>\nTime has so swiftly flowed by<br \/>\nI look back at the youthful days,<br \/>\nFeel like it was a fleeting summer night\u2019s dream of flowers!<\/p>\n<p>Looking in the mirror, I see a stranger<br \/>\nHair gray, cheeks sunken, skin wrinkled<br \/>\nSuddenly within me, many worries arise,<br \/>\nWhen the image of my homeland appears before my eyes.<br \/>\nMy guts twist,<br \/>\nTears brim on the verge of falling.<br \/>\nI miss so much calling \u201cm\u1ea7y, tao\u201d, those comradely second and first person pronouns.<br \/>\nI feel nostalgic for a time of being a soldier at war.<br \/>\nNow, all of it has become a thing of the distant past.<br \/>\nYet, in this part of the world, I\u2019m still thinking of you all.<br \/>\nEspecially during this year\u2019s memorial.<br \/>\nThat harsh marker of time \u2014 50 years of hardship.<br \/>\nI still remember it vividly,<br \/>\nLike the hurried wings of birds,<br \/>\nLeaving behind our homeland, our families.<br \/>\nI pity myself,<br \/>\nAnd I pity us all.<br \/>\nBut I do not regret being born in the wrong century.<br \/>\nNow, I live uneasily on American soil,<br \/>\nWatching the twilight, regretting a life wasted!<\/p>\n<p>Oh, friends!<br \/>\nTonight\u2026<br \/>\nI think of you guys,<br \/>\nYou comrades who once shared life and death with me.<br \/>\nI tried to be brave and endure the life of a wanderer.<br \/>\nBut each passing April gradually drains me dry.<br \/>\nTonight, the wine overflows,<br \/>\nOutside, the sky is ink-black.<br \/>\nIt is very late, yet I stay awake,<br \/>\nDrinking and reciting the \u201cHo Truong\u201d poem.<br \/>\nHolding the wine bottle in my hands, I raise it to the four directions, eight regions<br \/>\nBut still \u201cdon\u2019t know where to pour it,<br \/>\nWhere is a kindred spirit?\u201d (*)<\/p>\n<p>50 years!<br \/>\nLiving in exile, I realize this truth:<br \/>\n\u201cEach person only has one homeland.\u201d<br \/>\nAs for us:<br \/>\nSome lie buried deep in cold earth,<br \/>\nSome rest at the bottom of the ocean,<br \/>\nA few scattered across the far corners of the world.<br \/>\nNo matter how life is, we can never, and will never,<br \/>\nForget the land of our ancestors and homeland.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, someone says, \u201cWe are old now,\u201d<br \/>\nSo I try calling you by the formal and polite second-person pronoun \u201canh,\u201d<br \/>\nBut hearing my own voice, it sounds like some fool slurring words.<br \/>\nHaha, laughing out loud\u2026 I shout the words \u201cm\u00e0y tao.\u201d<br \/>\nIf we still think of each other,<br \/>\nLet\u2019s raise a glass of Ho Truong wine,<br \/>\nthough we\u2019re scattered across East, West, South, and North.<br \/>\nEven if we are 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