THE BITTER TASTE OF POETRY FOR APRIL 30, 1975, THE FALL OF SOUTH VIETNAM HAI CA^U THO* HAY CHO 30 THA'NG TU*

When the war is over

Lights from the battlefield still flicker on

Memory still lives

Questions are still asked:

Liberation for whom?

Imprisonment for whom? 

Freedom for whom? 

Exile for whom?

LIFE not LIVED 

LIVE without LIFE

  

When the child born post-war gathers the pieces

of bones and breakage, she hears murmurs and echoes

that speak of genocide committed by children of the same mother

upon themselves...

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SALUTE TO THE FLAG THAT IS NO MORE AT THE U.N.

"Bạc lòng nhưng chẳng cam lòng

mang theo nhục nước vào trong mộ phần" HHC  

"Unluckly worn heart  does not mean contented heart

I shall take the humiliation of the country to my grave..."   DNN

"Though the heart's jaded,

The  soul won't cede.

 And the country's humiliation, 

Inseparable I shall be from it

Till my last heartbeats." CCN

THE MUSIC OF SACRED MOURNING
please turn off my background music to listen to the following 

Mozart - Misericordias Domini K.222:

Frederick Chopin - Marcha Funebre:

Mozart -- Laudate Dominum K339: