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Lê Vĩnh Tài | AN EPIC ODE OF UKRAINE – 2/43 – History in time will forever be a memento

Lê Vĩnh Tài, the Vietnamese poet and translator born 1966 in Buon Ma Thuot, Daklak, Vietnam. The retired doctor is still a resident of the Western Highlands, a businessman in Buon Ma Thuot.

Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm, the blogger, poet and translator, born 1971 in Phu Nhuan, Saigon, Vietnam. The pharmacist currently lives and works in Western Sydney, Australia.

Photo by Katie Godowski on Pexels.com

By Lê Vĩnh Tài, translation by Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm

February 27th, 2022

…

History 

in time

will forever be a memento

.

you can not use

a past full of dead bodies

to change history

.

facing the future

___

Lịch sử

sẽ mãi mặc niệm 

với thời gian 

.

bạn đừng dùng quá khứ

toàn xác người

để thay đổi lịch sử 

.

chúng ta hướng về tương lai 

By Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm

There's magic in translating a body of work from one language to another.

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