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Category: Poems

In Memory of My Second Uncle HNB

Death is closer to meafter every funeral I’ve attended. He died and was cremated todayleaving behind a legacy,a series of … More

artist, birth, death, life, Memory, poem, reflection

Valentine’s Day 2019

We are like two sides
of a coin
knowing without knowing.

love, poem, poetry, relationship, SG, Valentine's Day

Bukowski

Once upon a
time, there was a
girl who was crazy
about Charles Bukowski.

bukowski, desire, feelings, heart, poem, poetry, stress, thoughts

A Poem for My Mother 2018

Another Mother’s day
And I thought I would run out
of things to say to you

feelings, love, mom, mother's day, poem, poetry

Are You Still the Same?

Are you still the same?
Despite an ocean and over a decade away
Despite the dreams lost or materialized

Coworkers, Friendship, homeland, LL, Memory, poem, poetry, Vietnamese music

Tết 2018 / Vietnamese Lunar New Year 2018

I stared at the pink cherry blossoms
And the amazing blue sky
Reflected in the creek

ao dai, Buddhism, lunar new year, reflection, tết, temple, thoughts

Nancy G.

But you’re gone
Like the grains of light I reach out
To grasp but I catch nothing.

death, grief, in-law, poem, poetry

Dream On

To what use could I put words I’ve been hunting for
when life’s erosion of feelings and inspiration
seems like just a matter of time
like the faded fall foliage in the forest

Autumn, fall foilage, feelings, life, nature lover, poem, poetry, reflection

Anniversary 2017

If time in this world is infinite
I will ceaselessly swim in your cadences

anniversary, fantasy, imagination, love, marriage, poem, poetry, relationship, SG, time

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Took stock of my modest Korean lit collection to get ready for #koreanmarch
I'm slowly making my way thru the list of novels recommended on the blog Contemporary Japanese Literature, and I'm so glad I picked this one to read.
Started this book to get more insights into Japanese literature.
In case you haven't noticed, Globetrotting in The NY Times is a helpful resource for your upcoming books in translation in 2021.
I'm glad I finished off the year with a great romantic love story.
My most anticipated translated fiction in the first half of 2021.
I'm glad Tokyo Ueno Station won the National Book Award for Translated Literature this year. I read it when it first came out in Mar 2019 and really loved it.
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is the "creme de la creme", to use her own words :-). It so deserves to be on the many lists of The best 100 books of all time!
Kinshu is an epistolary novel which consists solely of letters exchanged between the estranged and divorced couple who ran into each other ten years after their divorce caused by a double suicide in which the husband was caught.

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