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T\u1ef1 b\u1ea1ch: <\/strong><\/p>\n T\u1ef1a \u0111\u1ec1 n\u00e0y\u2026<\/em> “Ng\u00e0n N\u0103m M\u00e2y V\u1eabn Bay”<\/strong> d\u01b0\u1eddng nh\u01b0 t\u00f4i \u0111\u00e3 \u0111\u1ecdc th\u1ea5y \u0111\u00e2u \u0111\u00f3, m\u00e0 ch\u1eb3ng nh\u1edb r\u00f5 \u1edf \u0111\u00e2u. Th\u1ec9nh tho\u1ea3ng, n\u00f3 tr\u1edf l\u1ea1i trong tr\u00ed \u00f3c t\u00f4i nh\u01b0 m\u1ed9t v\u1ec7t m\u00e2y x\u01b0a c\u0169, v\u00e0 m\u1ed7i l\u1ea7n nh\u01b0 th\u1ebf, tim t\u00f4i l\u1ea1i kh\u1ebd rung l\u00ean \u2013 m\u1ed9t c\u1ea3m gi\u00e1c m\u01a1 h\u1ed3 nh\u01b0ng r\u1ea5t th\u1eadt. L\u1ea7n n\u00e0y, t\u00f4i nh\u1ea5t \u0111\u1ecbnh ph\u1ea3i vi\u1ebft \u0111i\u1ec1u g\u00ec \u0111\u00f3 \u0111\u1ec3 vu\u1ed1t ve c\u1ea3m x\u00fac d\u1ecbu d\u00e0ng \u1ea5y, c\u1ea3m x\u00fac c\u1ee7a m\u1ed9t ng\u01b0\u1eddi s\u1ed1ng xa qu\u00ea \u0111\u00e3 qu\u00e1 n\u1eeda \u0111\u1eddi ng\u01b0\u1eddi.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Ch\u00fang t\u00f4i quen nhau qua m\u1ed9t b\u00e0i th\u01a1.<\/p>\n M\u1ed9t b\u00e0i th\u01a1 bu\u1ed3n, vi\u1ebft v\u1ec1 th\u00e1ng T\u01b0, v\u1ec1 hoa xoan r\u1ee5ng tr\u1eafng b\u00ean d\u00f2ng Tr\u00e0 Kh\u00fac, n\u01a1i ch\u00f4n nhau c\u1eaft r\u1ed1n m\u00e0 t\u00f4i \u0111\u00e3 r\u1eddi xa t\u1eeb thu\u1edf \u1ea5u th\u01a1. T\u1eeb khi ra \u0111i \u0111\u1ebfn nay, \u0111\u00e3 m\u1ea5y m\u01b0\u01a1i n\u0103m tr\u1eddi, t\u00f4i v\u1eabn ch\u01b0a m\u1ed9t l\u1ea7n v\u1ec1 l\u1ea1i b\u1ebfn Tam Th\u01b0\u01a1ng. Qu\u00ea h\u01b0\u01a1ng trong t\u00f4i l\u00e0 m\u00f9i \u0111\u1ea5t \u1ea9m sau c\u01a1n m\u01b0a, l\u00e0 ti\u1ebfng g\u00e0 tr\u01b0a v\u1ecdng t\u1eeb nh\u1eefng con ng\u00f5 v\u1eafng, l\u00e0 b\u00f3ng d\u00e1ng m\u1eb9 hi\u1ec1n v\u1edbi n\u1ee5 c\u01b0\u1eddi v\u00e0 \u00e1nh m\u1eaft d\u1ecbu d\u00e0ng \u1edf m\u1ed7i s\u00e1ng tinh s\u01b0\u01a1ng ti\u1ec5n t\u00f4i t\u1edbi tr\u01b0\u1eddng n\u01a1i \u0111\u1ea7u ng\u00f5 c\u00f3 h\u00e0ng d\u00e2m b\u1ee5t n\u1edf hoa. <\/p>\n V\u00e0 n\u00e0ng \u2013 c\u0169ng l\u00e0 ng\u01b0\u1eddi Qu\u1ea3ng Ng\u00e3i \u2013 \u0111\u00e3 t\u00ecm th\u1ea5y t\u00f4i qua nh\u1eefng c\u00e2u th\u01a1 \u1ea5y. N\u00e0ng b\u1ea3o, \u0111\u1ecdc t\u00f4i, n\u00e0ng th\u1ea5y l\u1ea1i tu\u1ed5i tr\u1ebb c\u1ee7a ch\u00ednh m\u00ecnh. N\u00e0ng c\u0169ng y\u00eau hoa xoan, c\u0169ng t\u1eebng \u0111\u1ee9ng b\u00ean b\u1edd Tr\u00e0 Kh\u00fac nghe ti\u1ebfng n\u01b0\u1edbc ch\u1ea3y qua c\u1ea7u m\u00e0 t\u01b0\u1edfng ch\u1eebng nh\u01b0 nghe m\u1ed9t kh\u00fac h\u00e1t d\u00e2n ca. N\u00e0ng th\u00edch nh\u1ea1c Ng\u00f4 Thu\u1ef5 Mi\u00ean, th\u01a1 V\u0169 Ho\u00e0ng Ch\u01b0\u01a1ng, v\u00e0 m\u00ea c\u1ea3 c\u00e1i c\u00e1ch t\u00f4i g\u1ecdi m\u00e2y l\u00e0 \u201cb\u00f3ng c\u1ee7a linh h\u1ed3n lang thang\u201d.<\/p>\n T\u1eeb \u1ea5y, ch\u00fang t\u00f4i vi\u1ebft qua l\u1ea1i cho nhau. Kh\u00f4ng nhi\u1ec1u, nh\u01b0ng \u0111\u1ee7 \u0111\u1ec3 t\u00f4i c\u1ea3m th\u1ea5y \u1ea5m \u00e1p trong nh\u1eefng \u0111\u00eam d\u00e0i n\u01a1i \u0111\u1ea5t kh\u00e1ch, ho\u1eb7c ru h\u1ed3n t\u00f4i nh\u1eefng khi ch\u1ea1nh l\u00f2ng nh\u00ecn l\u00e1 thu bay. N\u00e0ng th\u00f4ng minh, \u0111\u1eb1m th\u1eafm, s\u1ed1ng m\u1ed9t m\u00ecnh \u1edf tu\u1ed5i n\u0103m m\u01b0\u01a1i, ch\u01b0a t\u1eebng l\u1eadp gia \u0111\u00ecnh. C\u00f3 l\u1ea7n t\u00f4i \u0111\u00e1nh b\u1ea1o h\u1ecfi, \u201cSao em kh\u00f4ng ch\u1ecbu l\u1ea5y ch\u1ed3ng,\u201d n\u00e0ng ch\u1ec9 c\u01b0\u1eddi, b\u1ea3o: N\u00e0ng th\u01b0\u1eddng ra v\u00f4 gi\u1eefa S\u00e0i G\u00f2n v\u00e0 Qu\u1ea3ng Ng\u00e3i \u0111\u1ec3 ch\u0103m s\u00f3c ng\u01b0\u1eddi th\u00e2n, ch\u01b0a bao gi\u1edd r\u1eddi b\u1ecf m\u1ea3nh \u0111\u1ea5t \u1ea5y. C\u00f2n t\u00f4i, m\u1ed9t g\u00e3 tha h\u01b0\u01a1ng v\u00e0 kh\u00f4ng th\u1ec3 quay v\u1ec1, v\u00ec m\u1ed9t l\u1eddi th\u1ec1. T\u00f4i \u0111\u00e3 n\u00f3i v\u1edbi n\u00e0ng:<\/p>\n \u201cAnh s\u1ebd ch\u1ec9 tr\u1edf l\u1ea1i khi qu\u00ea h\u01b0\u01a1ng m\u00ecnh kh\u00f4ng c\u00f2n b\u00f3ng d\u00e1ng c\u1ed9ng s\u1ea3n.\u201d<\/p>\n N\u00e0ng kh\u00f4ng ph\u1ea3n \u0111\u1ed1i, c\u0169ng ch\u1eb3ng khuy\u00ean ng\u0103n. Ch\u1ec9 b\u1ea3o:<\/p>\n \u201cN\u1ebfu c\u00f2n c\u00f3 ng\u00e0y \u0111\u00f3, em nh\u1ea5t \u0111\u1ecbnh s\u1ebd ra ga \u0111\u00f3n anh. C\u00f2n n\u1ebfu em kh\u00f4ng c\u00f2n, th\u00ec nh\u1eefng \u00e1ng m\u00e2y tr\u1eafng b\u1ec1nh b\u1ed3ng tr\u00ean b\u1ebfn Tam Th\u01b0\u01a1ng s\u1ebd \u0111\u00f3n thay em.\u201d<\/p>\n C\u00f3 m\u1ed9t l\u1ea7n n\u00e0ng d\u1ef1 \u0111\u1ecbnh M\u1ef9 du nh\u01b0ng r\u1ed1t cu\u1ed9c c\u0169ng ch\u1ec9 l\u00e0 l\u1eddi h\u1eb9n. \u00d4i v\u1ea1n d\u1eb7m tr\u00f9ng d\u01b0\u01a1ng kh\u00f4ng d\u1ec5 b\u01b0\u1edbc qua, ch\u01b0a n\u00f3i \u0111\u1ebfn nh\u1eefng th\u1eed th\u00e1ch v\u00f4 t\u00ecnh. T\u00f4i ch\u1ec9 c\u00f3 th\u1ec3 g\u1eedi cho n\u00e0ng nh\u1eefng b\u00e0i th\u01a1 v\u01b0\u1ee3t Th\u00e1i B\u00ecnh D\u01b0\u01a1ng, nh\u1eefng b\u1ea3n nh\u1ea1c t\u00f4i ph\u1ed5 t\u1eeb th\u01a1 c\u1ee7a n\u00e0ng, c\u1ee7a t\u00f4i, mong n\u00e0ng nghe th\u1ea5y t\u00f4i gi\u1eefa ti\u1ebfng m\u01b0a r\u01a1i b\u00ean m\u00e1i t\u00f4n x\u1ee9 Qu\u1ea3ng, hay nh\u1eefng chi\u1ec1u Saigon l\u1ed9ng gi\u00f3.<\/p>\n L\u00e2u l\u00e2u n\u00e0ng l\u1ea1i vi\u1ebft:<\/p>\n \u201cM\u00e2y tr\u00ean Thi\u00ean \u1ea4n v\u1eabn bay. Kh\u00f3i s\u00f3ng B\u1ebfn Tam Th\u01b0\u01a1ng v\u1eabn m\u1ecbt m\u1edd. C\u01b0\u1eddng quy\u1ec1n v\u1eabn c\u00f2n \u0111\u00f3 v\u00e0 Em c\u0169ng v\u1eabn c\u00f2n \u0111\u00e2y, v\u1eabn \u0111\u1ee3i v\u1eabn ch\u1edd nh\u01b0 ch\u1edd \u0111\u1ee3i m\u1ed9t gi\u1ea5c m\u01a1 hoa kh\u00f4ng bao gi\u1edd \u0111\u1ebfn\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n Th\u1eddi gian c\u1ee9 th\u1ebf tr\u00f4i \u0111i. T\u00f4i gi\u00e0 \u0111i, n\u00e0ng c\u0169ng v\u1eady. Nh\u01b0ng trong t\u00f4i, \u00e2n t\u00ecnh \u1ea5y d\u00f9 ch\u01b0a m\u1ed9t l\u1ea7n n\u1eafm tay nhau nh\u01b0ng v\u1eabn lu\u00f4n th\u1ea5y d\u1ecbu d\u00e0ng nh\u01b0 c\u01a1n gi\u00f3 \u0111\u1ea7u thu v\u1eeba qua m\u00f9a h\u1ea1 ch\u00e1y b\u1ecfng. M\u1ed9t t\u00ecnh c\u1ea3m kh\u00f4ng c\u1ea7n x\u00e1c l\u1eadp b\u1eb1ng ng\u00e0y th\u00e1ng, kh\u00f4ng \u0111\u00f2i h\u1ecfi hi\u1ec7n di\u1ec7n b\u1eb1ng h\u00ecnh h\u00e0i. Ch\u1ec9 c\u1ea7n m\u1ed7i khi nh\u00ecn th\u1ea5y m\u00e2y bay th\u00ec l\u00f2ng t\u00f4i nh\u1eb9 t\u00eanh c\u00f9ng c\u1ea3m x\u00fac v\u00ec bi\u1ebft c\u00f3 ng\u01b0\u1eddi v\u1eabn nh\u1edb ngh\u0129 \u0111\u1ebfn t\u00f4i, nh\u01b0 t\u00f4i ch\u01b0a t\u1eebng qu\u00ean ng\u01b0\u1eddi \u1ea5y.<\/p>\n N\u1ebfu m\u1ed9t ng\u00e0y n\u00e0o \u0111\u00f3 t\u00f4i \u0111\u01b0\u1ee3c tr\u1edf v\u1ec1, t\u00f4i s\u1ebd \u0111\u1ebfn b\u1ebfn Tam Th\u01b0\u01a1ng. S\u1ebd \u0111\u1ee9ng th\u1eadt l\u00e2u d\u01b0\u1edbi ch\u00e2n Thi\u00ean \u1ea4n nh\u00ecn b\u00f3ng chi\u1ec1u l\u1eb7ng l\u1ebd r\u01a1i tr\u00ean d\u00f2ng Tr\u00e0 giang. V\u00e0 n\u1ebfu kh\u00f4ng th\u1ea5y n\u00e0ng \u0111\u00e2u, t\u00f4i s\u1ebd ng\u1ea9ng nh\u00ecn tr\u1eddi, mong th\u1ea5y m\u1ed9t v\u1ea7ng m\u00e2y tr\u1eafng \u0111ang l\u1eb7ng l\u1ebd tr\u00f4i qua, m\u1ed9t b\u00f3ng nh\u1ea1n in tr\u00ean m\u1eb7t n\u01b0\u1edbc l\u1eb7ng l\u1edd\u2026<\/p>\n \u201cN\u1ebfu m\u1ed9t mai anh v\u1ec1 \/ M\u00e0 kh\u00f4ng c\u00f2n ai \u0111\u1ee9ng \u0111\u1ee3i \/ Th\u00ec gi\u00f3 \u01a1i h\u00e3y ng\u1eebng th\u1ed5i\/ \u0111\u1ec3 nh\u1eefng v\u1ea7ng m\u00e2y tr\u1eafng kia \/ t\u1ef1 t\u1ea1i l\u1eb7ng l\u1edd\u2026 Anh s\u1ebd \u0111\u1ee9ng tr\u00ean b\u1edd s\u00f4ng Tr\u00e0 \/ Anh s\u1ebd v\u1ec1 B\u1ebfn Tam Th\u01b0\u01a1ng \/ N\u01a1i c\u00f3 m\u1ed9t ng\u01b0\u1eddi con g\u00e1i \/ ch\u01b0a t\u1eebng kh\u00f3c v\u00ec ai \/ Nh\u01b0ng \u0111\u00e3 l\u1eb7ng l\u1ebd ch\u1edd su\u1ed1t m\u1ed9t \u0111\u1eddi \/ d\u00f9 l\u1eddi h\u1ee9a ch\u1ec9 l\u00e0 nh\u1eefng \u00e1ng m\u00e2y \/ tr\u00f4i \u0111i tr\u00f4i \u0111i…\u201d<\/p>\n V\u00e0 m\u00e2y v\u1eabn bay\u2026 nh\u01b0 m\u1ed9t l\u1eddi y\u00eau kh\u00f4ng bao gi\u1edd c\u1eadp b\u1ebfn.<\/p>\n <\/br><\/p>\n Self-Reflection (T\u1ef1 B\u1ea1ch)<\/strong><\/p>\n The title… \u201cA Thousand Years and the Clouds Still Drift\u201d \u2014 I feel like I\u2019ve read it somewhere before, though I can\u2019t quite recall where. Occasionally, it resurfaces in my mind like an old wisp of cloud, and each time, my heart stirs \u2014 a vague but deeply real feeling. This time, I had to write something to soothe that gentle emotion, the feeling of someone who has lived far from their homeland for more than half a lifetime.<\/p>\n We met through a poem.<\/p>\n A melancholic poem, written about April, about the lilac blossoms falling like snow beside the Tr\u00e0 Kh\u00fac River \u2014 the place where I was born but left behind in childhood. Since I departed, it\u2019s been decades, and I have yet to return to the Tam Th\u01b0\u01a1ng wharf. My memory of home is the scent of damp earth after a rain, the noonday crow of a rooster echoing from quiet alleyways, and the image of my gentle mother with her smile and tender gaze each morning as she saw me off to school under the flowering hibiscus hedge.<\/p>\n And she \u2014 also from Qu\u1ea3ng Ng\u00e3i \u2014 found me through those lines of poetry. She said that reading me was like reliving her own youth. She too loved lilac blossoms, had also stood by the Tr\u00e0 Kh\u00fac River listening to its flow beneath the bridge, feeling as if she were hearing a folk song. She loved the music of Ng\u00f4 Th\u1ee5y Mi\u00ean, the poetry of V\u0169 Ho\u00e0ng Ch\u01b0\u01a1ng, and adored the way I once called clouds \u201cthe shadows of wandering souls.\u201d<\/p>\n From then on, we began writing to each other. Not often, but enough to warm my heart during long nights in a foreign land, or to lull my spirit when autumn leaves stirred feelings of homesickness. She was intelligent, gracious, living alone at fifty, never married. Once I dared to ask her, \u201cWhy haven\u2019t you ever married?\u201d She only smiled and said:<\/p>\n \u201cMaybe I only fall in love with those I cannot reach.\u201d<\/p>\n She often traveled between Saigon and Qu\u1ea3ng Ng\u00e3i to care for family, never once leaving that patch of land behind. I, on the other hand, was an exile, unable to return \u2014 bound by a vow. I told her:<\/p>\n \u201cI will only come back when our homeland is free of communism.\u201d<\/p>\n She neither objected nor tried to persuade me otherwise. She simply said:<\/p>\n \u201cIf that day ever comes, I\u2019ll be at the station waiting for you. And if I am no longer here, then the white clouds drifting over Tam Th\u01b0\u01a1ng will greet you in my stead.\u201d<\/p>\n Once, she considered a trip to the U.S., but in the end, it remained just a promise. Oh, how hard it is to cross ten thousand miles of ocean, not to mention the unforeseen trials. All I could send her were poems that crossed the Pacific, songs I composed from her verses and mine, hoping she would hear me through the sound of rain falling on corrugated rooftops in Qu\u1ea3ng, or in the windy Saigon afternoons.<\/p>\n Now and then, she would write:<\/p>\n \u201cThe clouds still drift over Thi\u00ean \u1ea4n. The mists still blur Tam Th\u01b0\u01a1ng\u2019s waters. The regime remains, and I am still here \u2014 still waiting, still dreaming of a bloom that will never come\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n Time continued on. I grew older. So did she. But in my heart, that affection \u2014 even though we never once held hands \u2014 always felt tender, like the breeze of early autumn after a searing summer. A love that needed no dates to be validated, no physical form to be present. Just knowing that whenever I saw clouds drifting, my heart would feel lighter with the knowledge that someone out there still thought of me, as I had never stopped thinking of her.<\/p>\n If one day I ever return, I will go to Tam Th\u01b0\u01a1ng Wharf. I will stand for a long time at the foot of Thi\u00ean \u1ea4n Mountain, watching the dusk fall quietly over the Tr\u00e0 River. And if I don\u2019t see her anywhere, I will lift my eyes to the sky, hoping to see a white cloud floating by, a swallow\u2019s shadow reflecting on the still water\u2026<\/p>\n \u201cIf one day I come back \/ and no one waits at the station \/ Then wind, please still your breath \/ and let the white clouds drift freely… \/ I will stand by the Tr\u00e0 River \/ I will return to Tam Th\u01b0\u01a1ng Wharf \/ where once there lived a woman \/ who never wept for anyone \/ but waited quietly her whole life \/ for a promise that was nothing more \/ than a drifting cloud… drifting away\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n And the clouds still drift\u2026 like a love that never found its harbor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" T\u1ef1 b\u1ea1ch: T\u1ef1a \u0111\u1ec1 n\u00e0y\u2026 “Ng\u00e0n N\u0103m M\u00e2y V\u1eabn Bay” d\u01b0\u1eddng nh\u01b0 t\u00f4i \u0111\u00e3 \u0111\u1ecdc th\u1ea5y \u0111\u00e2u \u0111\u00f3, m\u00e0 ch\u1eb3ng nh\u1edb r\u00f5 \u1edf \u0111\u00e2u. Th\u1ec9nh tho\u1ea3ng, n\u00f3 tr\u1edf l\u1ea1i trong tr\u00ed \u00f3c t\u00f4i nh\u01b0 m\u1ed9t v\u1ec7t m\u00e2y x\u01b0a c\u0169, v\u00e0 m\u1ed7i l\u1ea7n nh\u01b0 th\u1ebf, tim t\u00f4i l\u1ea1i kh\u1ebd rung l\u00ean \u2013 m\u1ed9t c\u1ea3m gi\u00e1c m\u01a1 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,23,4,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thovanyenson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17688"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thovanyenson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thovanyenson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thovanyenson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thovanyenson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17688"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/thovanyenson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17694,"href":"https:\/\/thovanyenson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17688\/revisions\/17694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thovanyenson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thovanyenson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thovanyenson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u201cC\u00f3 l\u1ebd Em ch\u1ec9 y\u00eau \u0111\u01b0\u1ee3c nh\u1eefng ng\u01b0\u1eddi kh\u00f4ng th\u1ec3 ch\u1ea1m t\u1edbi.\u201d<\/p>\n