Poems by Kieu Bich Hau
Poems
1.Water versions
By Kieu Bich Hau
So soft to flow in the river
So strong to wave in the ocean
So hard to freeze
So high to fly in a cloud
So deep to stay in the heart of the earth…
Water – Wisdom
Live as water.
2.The anger
It's alright, just let it out
Shout at me
Release the blind rage
that has long built up
in your heart, your mind
your every cell
Just shout at me,
use your angry eyes,
Use the fire,
with the light that burns
my skin, my hair, my soul
The anger of this earth
the anger from pain and despair
from repressed feelings
from bearing the sins of being human…
And you are free
And I will hug you in my trembling arms
And all tears will flow
in a current into the Blue Danube,
into the Red River,
into all
And we melt into that river
Remaining forever
flowing into the universe
We are a giant tear
scattered
in the universe.
3.Call girl
(When heaven bends down to hell)
“Woman on top, woman under bottom” - HJB
From the Cinema hotel
I come to the downtown of Seoul
Suddenly I find
In a corner of a street
In the crowded region
Where I can’t walk through
The girl lying on road
I care not to step on you
I want to cry
Looking down and pick you up
24 hours a day
Any man can call you
Do they find joy on your body?
Do they reach the pain deep inside you?
Their lust destroys our world
The pain is lying in my heart
And I think of my daughters at home
They are now working in their office
Or smiling with their lovers
Or sleeping happily in the warm bed at home
What about you?
You are lying here on road
by bare body
by a hotline number for 24hour sex service
anyone can step on you
blurred by tears from my eyes
I bend my knees on the road
And pick you up
Blow the dust from you
Blow the burden and pain from this material world
That’ it!
Eyes wide open, eyes closely shut
In a corner of Seoul street
The girl lying on road
As a falling leaf of Autumn
The leaf waves to the wind in the sky
The call girl waves to me down on road
Looking up I see the red leaf waving to the wind
Looking down I see the call girl in red top waving to my mind, my heart…
I bend down
bend down,
heaven bends down to hell…
About the authors:
H. Dr KIEU BICH HAU
Member of Vietnam Writers’ Association. Born in Hung Yen Province, Vietnam
Editor of Writer & Life magazine of Vietnam
Editor of NEUMA magazine of Romania
Editor of Humanity magazine of Russia
Editor of Prodigy magazine of USA
Honorary Doctorate Degree granted by Prodigy Life Academy US for extraordinary achievements in literature as an Ambassador for Vietnam
Ambassador of Ukiyoto Publisher of Canada to Vietnam
Media Director of SaVipharm.
Founder and Head of Hanoi Female Translators
9 Awards in Literature:
Literary Award for the Youth in 1992 by Tien Phong Newspaper and Nguyen Du College for creative writing.
Second Award in The short story contest organized by Literature Newspaper in 2007.
Award in the short story contest organized by Military Arts & Literature Magazine in 2009.
Award for the best
short story by the Naval Command in 2015
Award for excellent short story by Military Arts & Literature Magazine in
2015.
The ART Danubius Prize in 2022 for her nurturing and deepening Vietnamese-Hungarian literary and cultural relations.
The International Poetry Festival - Europa in Versi Special Award in 2023 for her dissemination of Vietnamese poetry and prose on an international level.
The higher honorary degree for extraordinary achievements in Literature as Ambassador for Vietnam, granted by Prodigy Life Academy US.
The Great Award of Korea 2023 for her devotement in promotion Vietnamese poetry and prose on an international level.
Published 25 books of prose, poetry, essay in Vietnam, Italy, Canada, Hungary, USA, Romania.
Her poems and short stories have been translated into many foreign languages (17): English, Italian, Korean, Russian, Marathi, Hindi, Romanian, Hungarian, Spanish, Portuguese, Nepali, Uzbek, French, German, Turkish, Chinese, Montenegrin…
Events which she participated:
-1st Asian Writers’ Forum in Kazakhstan 2019
-Asean and Chinese Writers’ conference in China 2019
-Spring Poetry Festival in Zalau, Romania 2023
-Europa in Versi 2020, 2021, 2023 in Como, Italy
-The Americas Poetry Festival of New York 2023, USA
- Poetry Festival – RAIPO - in Malaysia 2023
-Poetry Marathon for World Poetry Day 21st March 2024 (held by George Mason University, USA)
-Taiwanese Poetry Day 14 March 2024