Xuân Vũ TRẦN ĐìNH NGỌC
Sàigòn là của tôi, của bạn
Sàigòn là ngàn vạn yêu thương
Sàigòn nhớ mọi con đường
Sàigòn những lúc đêm sương, đèn vàng!
Sàigòn vui
du hí về đêm
Sàigòn tên gọi
êm đềm
Cho tôi những
phút giây thêm yêu đời!
Sàigòn nhiều
tiệm tùng tấp nập
Sàigòn là rầm
rập đông vui
Sàigòn trong trái tim tôi
Trong anh, trong chị ngàn đời không phai!
Sàigòn đây thủ đô Văn hóa
Sàigòn đầy hàng hóa chất kho
Sàigòn bận lúc tinh mơ
Sàigòn nhộn nhịp tờ mờ sáng trăng!
Chợ Bến Thành Sàigòn sầm uất
Bến Bạch Đằng tầu khuất trong sương
Văn Khoa, trường Luật, Kinh Thương
Trưng Vương, Hưng Đạo cùng trường Gia Long...
Chiều thư viện ngồi nhìn liễu rủ
Mùa thi về ngắm phượng đỏ rơi
Những đêm trăng sáng dạo chơi
Nhà Bè nước chảy chia đôi hai bờ.
Sàigòn yêu ơi! Ngàn nỗi nhớ!
Tôi nằm mơ vẫn thấy Sàigòn
Sàigòn dấu ái, bao dong
Ngàn năm tôi vẫn Sàigòn gọi tên!
Litte Saigon, CA 1-1-2006
Xuân Vũ TRẦN ĐÌNH NGỌC
Nguồn: Trung Tâm Văn Hóa Nguyễn Trường Tộ, Paris
CALLING SAIGON
Saigon is mine and yours,
Saigon is multiple love we reserved for her.
I am sitting here remembering all Saigon’s
lovely streets
And the foggy nights pierced by occasional yellow
lights.
I lived in Saigon no less than twenty-one
years. Sometimes I went to Saigon zoo enjoying looking at wild
animals,
However, Saigon theaters, tea shops and dancing
clubs all opened late at night,
Saigon - How nice and delicate name that gave me
more reasons to increase my love toward life.
Saigon with multiple stores welcoming thousands
and thousands of traders and customers,
Her large and small streets were full of people
and vehicles of all kinds, from cars, bikes to scooters.
There is no doubt Saigon
is always in my heart and so is in yours.
Saigon is the cultural capital of the South of
Vietnam,
Her stores were full of merchandise, both local
and imported,
Saigon was so busy from the early morning till
dusk with the weak light of the crescent moon.
The Ben Thanh market was always so crowded, noisy
and animated,
The commercial and Navy boats at Port Bach Dang
were sometimes hidden in a foggy milky veil,
Here are the Faculty of Letters, the Law School
and the Economical and Commercial School,
There are Trung Vuong, Hung Dao and Gia Long
High School.
Sometimes, I spent some beautiful afternoons at
Saigon Municipal Library watching the green willow leaves rustling
softly in the breeze,
And when it was the examination season, I
focused my eyes on the falling red jaracanda flowers.
When the moon was full I often walked around the
Port Nha Be where the Saigon River water flow was divided into two
parts.
Saigon! My darling! I miss you very much,
In my dream, I always saw you with your beautiful
monuments, streets and parks.
You are so generously and lovely,
I’ll call your nice name for thousands and
thousands years and never forget you, honey!
Xuân Vũ TRẦN ĐÌNH
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