WONDER DREAMS
( NEO-LIAO-CHAI CHIH-YI )
I
Upon reaching the parting of Tran
Huy Lieu st. and Hoang Van Thu st., the "Ben Thanh" taxi was stopped
by a funeral.
- Who's the
guy that has so big a funeral? T. asked the driver.
- Yes, it's
a real big funeral Sir, we'll have to wait until it
goes by to continue our trip.
T. lowered the glass pane to look out, he really couldn't do anything more than watching the
funeral, like people on the roadsides.
The bawling tittle-tattle reached
his ears: "Dammit! This guy has too many wives,
there are more than twenty mourning ladies!"
- Oh no!
These are the deceased's sisters and little sisters.
- It's not
true, there are only three little sisters, I'm a
friend of the youngest one.
- Good
Heavens! Then this guy has up to twenty mourning wives, and each one of them is
snivelling.
T. suddenly felt he was becoming
more attracted to the funeral - as this is also a way to kill time;
fortunately, he isn't very busy this morning.
The tricycles that carried a few
tens of glass beads wreaths had come into the Phu Nhuan Church precinct and were spreading on
two sides. A little boy, probably the eldest son of the deceased's eldest son,
that carried the deceased's photo was approaching the glass pane. Curious, T.
cast a glance at the photo: he saw a middle aged man, wearing a black suit and
glasses, and sitting before a bookcase filled with precious and beautiful
books.
T. suddenly turned giddy: how come
the man in the photo resembles him so much? About thirty years ago, T. also had
himself photographed before his own bookcase, in a very similar way. T. still
remembers he had that photo taken when he was 56 or 57. And the most strange thing is that the books, as well as the
bookcase, look quite similar to the ones of himself.
T. is now a 86 years old man - all
other people at this age used to consider themselves as "cổ lai
hy" (never seen so far) old men, but, as T. belongs in a type of drifting
prodigal, he has decided to acknowledge himself only as a
20-years-old-man-for-the-fourth-time; and thus, he has also determinedly denied
all forms of old age. Whenever his friends and offsprings happened to call him
"cụ" (venerable old-man), he immediately scolded them loudly:
"what business is it of yours to call and "calumniate" me as an
old man. Since when am I old? The term old age doesn't figure in my dictionary
at all".
Thanks to his optimistic and life
loving spirit, as well as thanks to his freedom-loving way of life, T. has
actually come into old age in a quite strong and supple manner, even young men
themselves can hardly catch up on him. Many people asked him about his secret
to constantly remain young, but they didn't get explanation from him, as he
only answered them vaguely: "what can I do when it's God's will or Destiny
that forces me to remain young!" But he once disclosed to a very intimate
friend that when he was well over 60 years old, he had elaborately trained a
vitality preserving martial art call "NGA CÔNG". When asked what is
meant by the term "NGA CÔNG", T. only cast up his eyes to heaven and
said: "the celestial secret cannot be revealed!".
However, all his friend clearly know
that, besides the "NGA CÔNG" vitality preserving martial art which
they vaguely know, they all realize that T. has a quite popular, but also
extremely effective conception of life, which is: "In life, when meeting
with something that simply cannot be healed, changed or ameliorated, one should
immediately forget about it, and should never pay attention to it to get one's
stomach gaping and pussy". T. often added: "Old man Heaven gives us a
lot, at times, He wants to retrieve a little from us, there's no reason for us
to feel sad!".
He told the taxi driver: "We're
anyway blocked here, let me alight to see who is the
deceased, who gets so big a funeral with so many mourning ladies that are
snivelling. I'll come back immediately".
T. alighted from the taxi right at
the moment the hearse passed by, and he saw the ladies in mourning dress,
marching into two lines right behind the deceased's coffin.
T. suddenly felt dizzy! How strange
it is, when all these faces and silhouettes are so familiar to him, even though
the mourning turbans and shawls didn't allow him to see each one of the faces
of the ladies.
T. counted under his breath, it's
actually so many, exactly two dozens, 24 ladies...
Greatly excited by his curiosity, T.
crossed the road and entered the Church precinct, joining the seething mass of
people awaiting at the Church gate.
The death notification board
unexpectedly hit his eyes. T. told himself: "Let's see who is this lucky
guy and how old is he?".
The age, as well as the last and
first names of the deceased caused him to be dazed. Well! It's so strange:
V.A.T., 86. For what reason the name coincides, while the age
also coincides? Moreover, the deceased's photo is also quite similar to
one of his photos taken 30 years ago?
T. stood silently, thinking
confusedly, and he startled up upon hearing the taxi horn, announcing to him
that the funeral has passed by.
While sitting in the taxi, numerous
questions whirled in T's mind. It's actually too strange, coincidence of last
and first names, coincidence of age, while the deceased's photo looks exactly
like an old photo, what all these damned things mean?
The taxi stopped in front of
Quỳnh's house, a girlfriend 20 years younger than T., i.e. a lady of 66
golden years... that haven't yet withered at all!
But T. suddenly felt someone's hand
striking hardly at his shoulder, and the blow was followed by a loud shouting:
"O dear, drifting prodigal, you're dead but you still want to drift at the
mercy of your will. Why don't you remain in place, awaiting
for us to come to get you, and still take a taxi to go to see your girlfriend,
don't you know that you're causing our wings to almost getting loose while
flying after you? We acknowledge ourselves beaten and would like to salute you,
drifting prodigal!
T. looked back, felt dizzy, seeming
like wanting to fall down! The two persons behind him, and they're now facing
him, are two demons, two envoys of the King of Hades; one has a blue face,
while the other one's face is red, and both of them have canine teeth as big as
bananas, and dishevelled hair. The blue-faced one held an axe, as for the
red-faced, he held a huge rope.
T. recovered his composure and
suddenly understood; he then fell down and splitted his side with laughter:
"Well, finally I've "về thần" (rejoined the
geniuses) and the funeral of that lucky ladies' darling is actually my own,
that's the reason why everything is coinciding, everything is similar! Well,
it's really too funny for words!
And so, under the mourning turbans
and dresses are Hồng, Nguyệt, Thanh, Lan,
Châu, Hạnh, Liên, Khanh, etc...
T. regained his composure and told
the two Demons: "You're welcome, dear brothers, you don't have to get or
arrest me at all, simply let me go along with you. The
King of Hades, your boss, is a good friend of mine, there's nothing fearful!
Well, let's go!"
Quỳnh had opened the door, and
she was looking around, wondering who has rung the bell.
T. turned back and said:
"Goodbye Quỳnh, I'll come back to see you later, I now have to go to
see the King of Hades for a while".
Different with the times he flew on
aircrafts with air hostesses as beautiful and as sweet-smelling as a pod of
jack-fruit, this time T. isn't allowed to sit on a soft chair, looking at the
beauties, but he has to fly down all by himself. He leisurely cut through the
ground to fly down fastly, but was also a little uneasy as on his two sides
weren't the beautiful hostesses, but instead were only two demons; so, he
deployed all 10 levels of strength of the "NGA CÔNG" to fly down as
fast as the wind, even breaking the sound barrier, disservicing the two demons
that constantly entreated him to slow down: Oh! Oh! Drifting prodigal, please
slow down, please slow down, we're very close to the Palace of Hades
alreadly". Seeing the two demons with their tattered clothes, their weary
wings that seemed like falling down, T. took pity of them and withdrew 4 levels
of strength to slow down his flight - besides, he just saw a milestone on which
is mentioned: "Palace of Hades" - 6 hundred kilometres".
Noticing that T. had reduced his
flying speed, the two demons were overjoyed, they continually thanked him:
"Thank you drifting prodigal, thank you for having thought of us". T.
secretly thought: "with supersonic speed of 1200 kilometres per hour,
it'll take me another half hour before I'll meet with my good friend".
He restroked his hair, took out a
mirror to look at himself, recombed his hair, rebuttoned up his shirt, putting
it inside his pants, and refastened his belt to be decently dressed.
He had to be so careful, because his
friend, the King of Hades used to be very hard to please with the question of
dressing. People that are careless with their attire would immediately get a
wigging from his part. Moreover, upon meeting with the King of Hades, T. still
has a very important problem, a matter he had kept in his mind over 30 years,
which really requires the assistance of the King.
About thirty minutes later, the
Palace of Hades had stood stock-still in front of T. at the centre of the
earth, the Palace of Hades is extremely majestic and splendid, but as
everything are painted in red and black, it also looks quite gloomy and
hair-raising.
Being an old friend, T. was allowed
to see the King of Hades immediately.
He stately stepped in and said
aloud: "Dear King of Hades, how are you? I'm very pleased to have a chance
to meet with you now".
- "Dear
drifting prodigal, I'm well and think of you quite often, now that you're here,
try to remain with me for a few days, then, in the name of our friendship, I'll
have formalities made for you to reincarnate very soon at some good places, and
I'll let you the freedom to choose the place you like, no problem, please don't
worry good friend".
- "Oh
King of Hades, you know well that throughout my life, I've practically ignore
all worries. Anyway, thank you all the same".
T. cast a glance along the walls of
the Palace of Hades, he caught sight of many oil paintings by Vietnamese
Masters such as Tô Ngọc Vân, Trần Văn Cẩn, Nguyễn
Tường Lân, Nguyễn Gia Trí, Lê Văn Đệ,
Nguyễn Sáng, and a wonderfully nice painting by Võ Doãn Giáp showing the
Ha Long Bay...
He congratulated: - "Well! Dear
King of Hades, you've many beautiful and valuable oil paintings by Masters,
graduating from the Indochina School of Fine Arts. Don't you like abstract
paintings?
- "You
mean the things call abstract? No, I really hate that school; abstract
paintings are simply dumps of colours which talentless painters produce and
give to them resounding names and this is in reality a bluff, bluff and bluff!
Yes, I don't like it, how about you?"
-
"You're perfectly right. Moreover, your choices are quite good, the Ha Long Bay painting by Võ Doãn Giáp is too
beautiful!
- "Let
me have a lunch prepared to treat you. Are there special dishes you really
like, please let me know.
- " I
just flew down from the World and I'm a little tired, please give me light
dishes - please give me some gruel, prepared with blood, bowel, heart and lung
of the newly rich, the fortune-tellers, the dishonest merchants selling fake
paintings, the boastful painters, the lazy people living at their wives and
parents' expenses... it would be delicious were I to be given such a dish!
-
"Well! You'll have what you like, where are you my great cooks?...
The King of Hades came near to the
place T. was standing. He touched T. lightly with his mandarinal silver blade
and said:
-
"Listen, your funeral was a really big one, with so many mourning ladies,
I've used a telescope to look up and saw everything, you're a real ladies'
darling, when comes my turn, I'm not sure I'll be "deeply regretted by so
many beauties"!
- "Dear
King of Hades, thank you for praising me too much, T. modestly answered. The
King of Hades suddenly looked at his back, then he
stepped aside to look at T.'s profile and said: "Very good! Your back
remains perfectly straight. Don't you know that, while still living in the
world, there are so many people that were so domineering, but once they're down
here, all their backs became bent down like if they were hunch-backed since
three generations; some that were lightly hunch-backed had strived to be more
and more hunch-backed, and they looked terrific! Particularly, the ones with
onion-like chignons, they were simply flat-backed as they lay at their full length
on the ground to crawl to the court, they're quite frightening!
-
"Where are they now?"
- "I've
allowed some with minor sins to reincarnate as familial furniture such as beds,
stools and chairs etc...as for the remaining ones,
I've dropped all of them into caldrons of boiled oil!"
-
"Well! Let's stop talking about all such people as it's quite
tiredsome.
-
"Actually, I really want to hear you talking to me. Don't you know that I
rarely have a chance to talk to simple and honest people, as most of the times
I have had to listen to bad people entreating and protesting their innocence,
so much that I almost turn deaf!
- "And
what if such protestors are really innocent people?
-
"Innocent? Thị Mầu's innocence! I've filmed and recorded
on CDrom disks all that they've done and said in their life, and with such
obvious evidence, how can they protest.
-
"Heaven! You also filmed and recorded what I've done and said on the
disks?
-
"Why not? However, the film and disks of yours belong in the good
category. I've never heard you using the term "EM" (younger brother
or sister) with any male person, while you used that term plentifully with the
fair sex. This is good! Anyway, you've thrown out too many abusive hints, but
in consideration of our long-date friendship, I've crossed out all such insults
and preserved only the funny things. Your film and disks are now very good
ones, the Emperor of Jade had listened to them, He was
very pleased and said: "This guy is quite funny...!"
-
"Well, thank you very much, how could I pay my debt of gratitude to you?
-
"Don't mention any form of gratitude as you must remember that we're good
friends... Well! Let's have lunch, then I'll proceed with formalities for you
to reincarnate very soon. What do you think? Where do you want to live this
time? Paris, California,
or Oakland...
well, why don't you go to Beijin, the sceneries there are wonderful, besides, Xuân Hạnh (1) lived there...
Upon hearing the King of Hades
dealing with the question of reincarnation, T. suddenly remembered the very
important thing, a matter of life and death, he had been nursing in his heart
during all these last few ten years, constantly hoping to obtain the King of
Hades' assistance... being absorbed by the heat of the happy conversation, he
had forgotten about it.
-
"Oh no! Actually do you want me to be in your company for a certain
length of time?"
- "Of
course, I want you to do so, but I'm afraid you might very soon feel sad;
there's nothing happy in Hades, and you might very well be fed up with it after
a few days. But, were you to agree to be in my company for a long time, then
it'll be something wonderful, and believe me, I'll be overjoyed."
T. felt so moved, that his eyes were
brimming with tears. He joyfully unbosomed himself;
- Alas! Your
words have filled my heart with happiness. This is because I've an extremely
important problem that requires your kind assistance. Now, in this very
favorable situation, I wish to lay before you all the facts of the case as
follows:
"In my recent existence I
happened to meet with and fall deeply in love with a beautiful, clever and
chaste young lady; unfortunately, when we've met, it was too late and due to
trying circumstances, we've had to acknowledge ourselves beaten by Fate. Now
that I've come down here before her, I would like to ask you to give me some
minor jobs such as translator of classical works, librarian, etc... so that I
can wait until the time she'll come down (probably in about 20 years); at that
time I would like to ask you to kindly allow us to reincarnate together at the
same second, a same month, a same year, at a same place - a place that has many
springs and mountains, many beautiful landscapes - while also allowing us to
live at the same place, to be neighbours, to be together in peace as well as in
emergency, so that, in the coming existence, it'll be impossible for me to lose
her. In the name of our intimate friendship, I would like to ask you to kindly
help me".
- "This
means that you want to remain to wait for that young lady - that-is-to-say you
agree to be in my company for a long period of time... Well! No problem! I
completely agree with you and everything is granted!
Seeing that his 30 years old wish
was easily crowned, T. advanced in the wake of his victory and hastily added:
-
"You've allowed us to be born at the same moment, please also allow us to
die at the same time, so that no one of us will have to cry over the
other".
-
"Well, it's also granted, provided that you'll be in my company for a long
time to take my mind off my sorrows, besides, I'm feeling quite moved, and I
really respect your deep affection vis-à-vis that lucky young lady.
T. was appointed to the post of
librarian of the Kingdom
of Hades by the King of
Hades, but he worked very little and spent most of his time wandering round the
kingdom and conversing with the King of Hades; they were so happy and used to
laugh all day long. His life-loving and funny way of life caused the atmosphere
of the Kingdom of
Hades to turn mirthful,
the Demons themselves became less frowning, some among them even started to
learn how to laugh...
o0o
The Hades' library contains many
precious and rare books. There are books that were brought down since the
time Chin Shih Huang burned the books and scholars more than two thousand
years ago. Being a bibliophile since his childhood, T. was quite in his
element, he noticeably put on weight, his complexion turned rosy, his floating
hair was as white as snow... following moments and days of travelling and
conversing with the King of Hades, T. used to sit and toy with the ancient and
rare books which he read uninterruptedly while awaiting for the great Happy
Day...
One day, while holding in his hand
the Lu-Pou-Wei's Spring and Autumn Annals, the book
which that Machiavellist had boasted that he would give a reward of one
thousand gold taels to whoever that can correct any word in his book, T.
suddenly let it slip from his hands. Commiserating too much with the precious
book, he gave a scream that resounded throughout the Hades... and was suddenly
wide-awake to find out that everything is simply a wonder dream.
But, upon being completely
wide-awake, T. discovered that his hair had become a little bit more silvery...
II
Back to the brutal truth, T. found
out that his hair has turned a little more silvery, he
hastily dyed it to make it shiningly black again.
From the time the Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals slipped from his hands, and he
screamed and became wide-awake, to this very moment when T. is writing these
sentences, he continues to imagine and to ask himself whether he was and is
living in a dream or in real life? How can he prove that right now, in this
very moment when he's sitting to write these lines, and the moment he let the
Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals slip from his hands, are
actually REALITY and DREAM? Maybe the unique way is to pinch his hand himself
so that, if he feels painful, then it's reality. But THE QUESTION OF PINCHING
HIMSELF TO DISTINGUISH DREAM FROM REALITY CAN ALSO HAPPEN IN A DREAM AND ON
WHAT FACTOR CAN HE BASE HIMSELF TO PROVE THAT HE ISN'T LIVING IN A DREAM?
In brief, DREAM or REALITY is quite
difficult to distinguish and demonstrate. Moreover, either REALITY or DREAM,
DREAM or REALITY, human ephemeral life only lasts 70 or 80 years, atmost 100
years then... sand and dust will rebecome sand and dust. In this life, from
richest guys like THẠCH SÙNG, VƯƠNG KHẢI to the poorest
people, everybody must die. Besides, suppose that if eternal life can be bought
with money and wealth, then some day in the future, there will remain in this
world only the DIRTY RICH PEOPLE, then, T. wouldn't like to live along with
them!
Therefore, maybe because in daytime
T's wishes were too intense, in night-time, all such wishes and dreams continue
to shape wonder dreams for him to continue his travel into the DREAMLAND.
In his dream, T. found out that he
was quite lucid when planning the various stages that follow one another as
follows:
1/- T. came down to Hades to be in
the King of Hades' company since 2022 awaiting for HER
coming to join him.
2/- SHE came down in 2042
3/- They were reunited and their
joys were countless, they remained at the King of Hades' place for three days,
then made formalities to reincarnate together at the "VÔ DANH
ĐỘNG" (Nameless grotto in China), a beautiful village in China.
When they came there, both Triệu Niên and Xuân Hạnh had passed
away.
4/- They were born in the same
second, same minute, same hour, same day, same month and same year; they grew
up side by side and got married in 2062, of course they married each other, who
else could interfere with them?
5/- From 2062 to 2142, they lived in
happiness and were constantly together; they had two boys and two girls that
were all handsome and beautiful.
Materially speaking they didn't live
an extremely rich life, but their mental life was extremely plentiful, enjoying
almost everyday small spiritual feasts, together of course!
6/- At the end of 2142 both of them
reached 100 years old and were allowed to hand in hand depart from this life at
the same second in the same day. They came back to visit the King of Hades for
three days, during which all three of them talked, laughed, related funny
stories etc...
7/- They reincarnated again,
rebecame two babies born in the same second, on the same day, same month, same
year in 2142, but this time they reincarnated in Los
Angeles in the USA.
8/- They lived side by side as
before, grew up together and married each other in 2162, also in Los Angeles.
9/- From 2162 to 2242, they lived a
life filled with happiness, T. was a writer and
translator, while She managed a Trading Enterprise at a same place.
10/- Toward the end of 2242, both of
them departed from this life also at the same time, they both returned to see
the King of Hades, remained three days in his company before reincarnating
again; this time they chose Liechtenstein, a beautiful kingdom in the western
part of Central Europe, right on the shore of the Rhin. They lived at the
capital city Vaduz.
In this tiny beautiful country with its 27,000 inhabitants, they became quite
renowned and were considered as a most happy couple... Then from 2342 and
later, every 100 years, they regularly came back to see the King of Hades,
lived with him for three days, then were reborn together, lived happily
together, then die again together; in that same way, they came back, departed
again, then came back again and so on... and forever; they went everywhere and
finally there remained no place in this world where they hadn't lived at,so
they returned and reincarnated in their original homeland, the Vietnam ,and
strived their best to relocate the two places they had lived in 1998, one at
Phu Nhuan and another one in Saigon.
This time, after 100 years living in
their homeland, they again departed this life together, came back to visit the
King of Hades as usual, but they were told by him that there was no other new
place for them to reincarnate, so the King of Hades advised them to fly up
directly to Heaven to live side by side forever, to love each other forever,
through an everlasting love...
T. seemed to regret that were they
to come to live in Heaven, it would be difficult for them to come back to visit
their good friend once every 100 years. Upon hearing what T. said, the King of
Hades laughed until his face turned red and said: "You're really
hare-brained, Heaven and Hades are actually like the groundfloor and the first
floor of a house, were you to miss me, you can come down to see me
anytime".
Hearing so, this time T. and She
flew up directly to the top of Heaven... From that time on, they never lived
far away from each other, never ceased loving each other, and so, they remained
everlastingly young... Whenever being asked about their age, they happily
answered: "WE'RE ONLY TWENTY YEARS OLD FOR ALMOST 100 MILLION TIMES..."
VŨ ANH TUẤN
Dec. 16, 1998
ON THE SIGNIFICATION OF THE
"NGA CÔNG" -
WHAT DOES IT ACTUALLY MEAN?
It would be acceptable to qualify
the "NGA CÔNG" as a type of vitality preserving martial art, but, to
be more accurate, we must say that "NGA CÔNG" is actually a Mind
Preserving Martial Art.
This is because "NGA CÔNG"
isn't a kind of martial art trained with hands, used for holding chopsticks, or
feet for playing football, that are ordinary parts of a human body. In reality
"NGA CÔNG" is a martial art that must be trained with Man's mind and heart, that are Man's quintessence.
"NGA CÔNG" is aimed at
sanctifying Man, causing him and his heart to become brave and strong, that
cannot weep or sob his heart out, that cannot entreat
in a cowardly manner. With someone that is good at "NGA CÔNG", were
he to feel angry, he would be sulky only for a few days, during which, he will
discover that while being sulky he was thinking about his counterpart or lover
more than in ordinary time so HE WOULD IMMEDIATELY STOP BEING SULKY AND WOULD
RECOVER HIS SUPPLENESS AND HAPPY MANNERS, EVEN BETTER THAN BEFORE. And that's
the effectiveness of the "NGA CÔNG" and hereafter is another more
important example: "A certain brave and remarkable man, before acquiring
the "NGA CÔNG", used to work little and play much, to gamble and have
a large number of girlfriends, not all of them are serious ones. Each day, he
used to be absent from 6:00PM to 10:00pm or even till midnight. But now that he
has been well trained with "NGA CÔNG" he has practically changed his
way of living, and is now writing and translating so as to leave behind works
that mark his journey through this life.
In brief, "NGA CÔNG" has
the occult force to beautify life, to make life honest, and so it can help the
trainee to become lucid, life loving and thus remaining everlastingly young.
The "NGA CÔNG" also helps its adept to raise himself his own spirits,
to create for himself A GOLDEN AGE IN WHICH MONEY ISN'T EVERYTHING, as there
simply cannot exist a Golden Age in which Money is All - as if abundance of
money can break the law, then such an Age can be called only a Blackened Age,
not a Golden one.
To
sum up we can say that: "NGA CÔNG" IS IN REALITY A DECLARATION OF
LOVE MANKIND IS ADDRESSING TO GOD...
TÌNH THƠ
HẢO MỘNG
III
Năm hai ngàn sáu hai
Hai người hai
mươi tuổi
Và họ đã kết hôn,
Sau một kiếp
đeo đuổi.
Cuộc sống thật hạnh
phúc
Tiền bạc không quá nhiều,
Nhưng sách vở, nhạc,
tranh,
Thật ê hề sung túc.
Ngày ngày sau công việc
Hai người về dự
tiệc,
Những bữa tiệc tinh
thần,
Thật vô cùng trác tuyệt!
Chiều chiều ngồi
bên nhau
Kề hai mái đầu xanh
Cùng đọc truyện xem
tranh
Cùng trau dồi
tinh luyện.
Ôn lại hàng ngàn truyện
Hai người đã cùng xem
Trong kiếp sống mới
rồi
Sách do T. cung cấp…
Nào Victor Hugo,
Nào Cronin, Malot (1)
Nào Edmond Dantès
Nào Javert Cosette…
Toàn danh tác tuyệt vời,
Khiến tâm hồn chơi
vơi
Toàn những chuyện gợi
lên
Muôn ngàn điều
thanh nhã.
Hai người mở trại
hoa
Làm đẹp thêm cho đời
Vào những giờ nhàn rỗi
Họ vẽ đẹp quá
trời!
Tranh T. vẽ quá được
Tranh Nga màu sắc
tươi
Tranh họ không cần bán
Chỉ để hai người
chơi
Họ bơi trong Hạnh
Phúc
Đời thoải mái lên
hương
Tranh của họ không đẹp
Cũng hơn
phát-lác-Phương! (2)
Sau nhiều năm xa cách
Họ thấy nhớ quê
hương
Hai người liền trở
lại
Thăm Sài Gòn, Việt Nam
Tìm lại nơi chốn
cũ
Nhớ lại thuở xa
xưa
Khi hai người chung vốn
Làm nghề
ác-đi-lơ!*
Đời họ đẹp
như mơ
Nơi làng Vô Danh Động
Núi ẩn hiện lửng lờ
Như trong cơn Hảo Mộng.
Cuộc đời cứ
như vậy
Hạnh phúc tăng chẳng
mòn
Bức tranh Võ Đoàn Giáp
Thế mà họ vẫn còn!
T. vẫn ham viết lách
Chàng viết sách, làm thơ
Dành cho người duy nhất
Xưa mơ
nay vẫn mơ.
Tháng ngày rồi qua mau
Nhân lão tâm bất lão
Họ vẫn trẻ bên nhau
Vẫn yêu nhau da diết…
Họ sống ngàn muôn kiếp
Một bước chẳng
rời nhau
Kiếp này chứ kiếp sau
Còn yêu nhau hơn nữa…
Đêm Noel 98
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(1) Hector Malot, tác giả cuốn
tiểu thuyết Không gia đình (Sans Famille)
(2) Một hoạ sĩ tính
huênh hoang nhất bộ đáo thiên
(3) Ác-đi-lơ (Art dealer)
nhà buôn tranh nghệ thuật.
EM LÀ
Trong mắt anh các khách má
đào,
Đều như những
tinh cầu nho nhỏ
Anh
đâu dám ví em với họ
Vì
em là….. cả một trời sao!
KHÔNG
ĐỀ
Yêu
NGA anh muốn cõi đời
Hoang
vu, mây nước, đất trời bao la
Ở
giữa chỉ có hai ta!
TÌNH
ẢNH
Giao
Thừa chín chín
Mặc
ai ước mong
Tiền
tài, danh vọng
Hình
Em anh nhìn!
Đêm
Xuân thanh vắng
Bốn
mắt giao thoa
Hai
hồn thăng hoa
Tình
yêu chiến thắng
Anh
sẽ thức trắng
Đêm
đầu năm nay
Nhìn
Em đắm say
Niềm
vui tràn đầy
Trong
năm tới đây
Rồi
cơn HẢO MỘNG
Sẽ
được anh xây
Thành
cơn THỰC MỘNG!
Đôi
ta sẽ sống
Chẳng
cần sang giàu
Chỉ
cầu cho được
Suốt
ngày bên nhau!
Tình
ta cho nhau
So trên trần thế
Nghìn trước nghìn sau
Chưa ai nhiều bằng
Hai đứa trẻ
măng
Mãi chẳng biết già
Tình của hai ta,
“Tình yêu VĨNH
HẰNG!
Mồng 1 tháng giêng, 1999
3 giờ sáng
LOVE PORTRAIT
On New Year’s Eve of 99
Ignoring other people’s wishes
For wealth and for glories
I keep looking at YOUR lovely
portrait…
Throughout this serene and notes
springnight
Our four eyes blissfully look at one
another
Our two enlightened souls sublimate
And LOVE comes out a great winner!
On the first day of this New Year
I shall happily stay up all night
Passionnately looking at your beloved
portrait
And my elated heart is filled with
delight
In this coming God Blessed Year
Our long-time cherished Good Dream
Shall indubitably be transformed
Into a lovely materialized idyll
We both shall not lean
Towards a super-rich life
All that we require,
Is being constantly side by side!
The everlasting LOVE we are sharing
When compared with all the loves in
this world
In thousands of year past, and in
thousands of
coming years,
Shall never be equalled in WORTH!
Forever young we shall remain
Never knowing Old Age’s meaning
And the LOVE we’re sharing
Is simply eternal,
eternal.
MƠ VÀ THƠ
Tặng người trong thơ TTNGA
Mỗi đêm những
mơ ước
Trỗi dậy biến thành
thơ
Thơ chẳng hay chi lắm
Nhung đượm thắm
tình yêu
Khi đã đủ dữ liệu
Để được sống
bên nhau
Hai ta cùng vứt bỏ
Mọi địa vị, chức
quyền
Sống an
nhiên tự tại
Như những bậc thần
tiên
Khinh bạc tiền chuyện
nhỏ
Trọng giá trị tinh thần
Hai ta cùng dịch sách
Cùng làm ác-đi-lơ
Sống cuộc sống
thanh bạch
Đẹp như ngàn giấc
mơ!
Nếu ở trong bài thơ
Anh không ham giàu có
Thì ở trong đời
thường
Em, Giám đốc bỏ xó!
Tình ta như mật ngọt
Tình ta như hương hoa
Hai ta cùng tận hưởng
Đời này cùng đi qua…
Đời
sau ta dắt nhau về
Bên
nhau, thề sống triệu đời bên nhau
Người
đời chỉ có ngàn đời
Hai
ta có VẠN, TRIỆU đời NGA ơi!
Mùng 1 tháng giêng 1999
3 giờ sáng
NHAN SẮC
ƠI.
Thơ tuy không hay nhưng
nó xuất phát thẳng từ
một con tim đang yêu đắm
đuối - một con tim ở
tuổi
20 lần thứ ba – nên thơ như viên kim cương
chưa
gọt giũa. Trên đời, thứ kim
cương đã gọt
giũa
phù phiếm chắc gì đã hơn “un diamant brut
venant
directement de mon pauvre coeur d’amoureux
éperdu?”.
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“un diamant
brut venant directement de mon pauvre coeur
d’amoureux éperdu” có nghĩa là “một
viên kim cương chưa
gọt giũa xuất phát từ
trái tim tội nghiệp đang yêu đắm đuối
của tôi”.
NẾU…
Nếu một ngày nào đó
Anh trở thành nhà thơ
Có ai tò mò hỏi:
“Cớ sao lại làm thơ?”.
Anh sẽ nói là anh không biết
Anh làm thơ vì NGA bảo anh làm!
Thế thôi! Đơn giản chỉ thế thôi!
NGA ơi, NGA ơi, ô NGA ơi!
Mùng 1
tháng giêng 1999
3 giờ sáng
À
LA TRÈS BELLE…
À la très che2re, à la très-belle
J’ offre ces petits poèmes
Germant directement de mon coeur
D’amoureux éperdu
Et souffrant d’un amour sans issue*
Mais, tant pis!
Ce qui doit arriver, arrivera…
Et ce jour là, nous serons réunis
Pour la vie, ô NGA!
Et aussi pour toutes les autres vies…
1er
Janvier 1999
3 heures du matin
*Comme Orphée, le Prince Thrace ,Tuấn descendra aux Enfers
pour
attendre la venue de NGA. Son amour exclusif charme
les
Dieux des Enfers qui lui donneront une place de biblio-
thécaire
…
Thuyền ai soi bóng trăng mơ,
