"Fairy Sleep" by Nguyen Thi Thuy Linh, from the Mother's Day Gifted Word Anthology

 

Fairy Sleep

(For my twinbaby Bơ & Bi)

…My dear! Look!

The twin moons are slowly rising from the sea

The sky is dark-blue as a thin chiffon

The moon's belly ripples...

I am so touched to remember the days

Hugging the giant belly and moving

It was the warm room of twin fetus

The music filled with love and joy

We blended with nature

In where had a garden of premonition

Welcomed us, all trees cheered happily

Oh, countless giant amaranths were as tall

as my body

Reached out the red dewy hands

I bent down to kiss the tree

Three hearts tremble with indescribable love

for life

Why were the fruits in the garden that day

so big

The wind rang bells through the coconut

leaves

The clover on the lush ground

We turned into nature at that time

Into sunlight

Into cool water vapor

The footprints of sleep were erased by the

wind

Sleep well, my dear baby

The moonlight has heard my feelings

Passing through the window a soft strip of

light

I gently pull the blanket higher

The moon seeds around here have just broken

Even a bit of dust from the night wake up

falling faling

Your both of sleeping faces are rosy like

two pomegranates

Snuggling into my armpits, connecting dreams

Let me hold your hands forever

Walking through the moonlit night and across

the ocean

How is so loving

I can't sleep

The sounds of cricket

The sound of your both talking in dream and

giggling.

 

 

 

Nguyễn Thị Thùy Linh, born in 1991, is a poetess and literary translator who now live in Hai Phong City, Vietnam. She received her Bachelor's Degree in Economics from Hanoi National Economic University. She was awarded “The Gold Moon of 6-8 poetry Prize,” the highest prize given by The Elder Newspaper and Website lucbat.com (co-organizer), under the auspices of Vietnamese Fatherland Front Central Committee and Buddhist Sangha of Vietnam. She won the Second Prize in a poetry contest awarded by “Văn nghệ quân đội” literary magazine for the years of 2015-2016.  She has translated and published two books, a children's book titled “The twin dolls to the earth” (Publishing House of The Vietnam Writer’s Association, 2016) written by Milutin Đuričković (Serbia) and a poetry collection called “Wings of the darkness” (Publishing House of The Vietnam Writer’s Association, 2018) composed by Raed Aljishi (Saudi Arabia). Her poetry has been translated and published in many languages.