Fw: [MC74 and Friends] my entries for FRUITS / VEGGIES HARVESTED IN FALL

 

EmCi,
Faint??  That was my favorite picture, off-topic though it was.  I liked it so much, I wrote some verses to go with it.

M-U

On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 12:44 AM, mai-chau nguyen <maichau.nguyen8@gmail.com> wrote:

 

Dear BiTwin, fellow PNEHs, painters, poets, Mai Quang and Forum friends,

here are my entries for the theme FRUITS/VEGGIES HARVESTED IN THE FALL, from my favorite shopping place every Wednesday from summer to fall.
Most entries were taken at 8am this morning, except the eggplants, and the pumpkins sitting on the steps (I recall the latter one was taken on my way back from lunch with Mai Quang, so I expect Quang to give it a good review :-)). I enjoyed taking pictures of the veggies so much that the lady who sold the veggies handed me a huge butterfly worm on a leaf, for me to take a picture. She was going to take it back to the farm to feed the chicken but I kept asking her if she wanted me to release it to the nearby park for her, that she finally said "ok, you do it", just to get rid of ...me :-). I held the leaf with the worm on it and walked across to the garden to release it, but I must admit I was a little worried that it would crawl on to my hand. I don't know what I would do if that happened.
The last one is the photo of the worm, just to share with you, not to be posted on the blog, hope the female members of the Forum will not faint. 

Goodnight and have a nice Thursday every onefrom Be^n Bo*\ So^ng
MC

Fw: [MC74 and Friends] entry for Icy Treats

Big sis,
OK, OK, here it is.  (I was muttering to myself, "she's going to tell me, no contribution no opinion" when mere minutes later, your tax collection note appeared!)  It's from my archives of a couple of years ago.  The title was lifted from "What are you doing for the rest of your life," which (remember?) A.Vinh sang at our 30th wedding-anniversary party 5 years ago around this time.

M-U

Fwd: [MC74 and Friends] entry for Chairs

BiTi,

Here's a really really late entry for Chairs, from EmCi and me.  It wouldn't have been as late, had EmCi not been as fussy about catching just the right afternoon sunlight.:-)

M-U

Fwd: [MC74 and Friends] shadows

BiTi, TNS,

If you're going to have a diapo for Shadows, may I request The shadow of your smile with Tony Bennett and Juanes?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83Sj4s49Wvg

Since EmCi once said to me không đóng góp thì không có lời bàn, here's a late entry with help from my daughter Clarissa.

M-U

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Fw: [MC74 and Friends] announcement of PNEHs - Theme for next week

EmCi, BiTi

Here's my entry for this week's theme; "Hints of spring" made me think of falling in love for the first time dancing a first dance...

A.Vinh and I spent 15 minutes taking what should have been a simple snapshot.:-)  I have renewed respect for the photographers on this forum who reportedly take 1200+ pictures in a day, take pictures with one hand, take pictures with their cell phone, iPhone... all with amazing results.  Anyway, I'll let you guess which part of the picture I ended up using for the background.

M-U

Fw: [MC74 and Friends] Theme for next week: GRAFFITI

BiTi, EmCi, PNEH friends,

To comply with the theme, I "borrowed" one of BiTi's pictures from the Heart series and scrawled all over it what graffiti means to me:  Random thoughts/words getting in the way of a good night's sleep - whether it's a rehashed argument or a to-do list...

M-U

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 12:08 PM, lauren trinh <ltrinh37@yahoo.com> wrote:

 

Dear PNEH Friends,  Inspired by Caro TD's beautiful graffiti photos, Em Ci and I would like to invite you to roam the streets and shoot the best graffiti you can find.. or .... if you can't find any to draw/paint/scratch your own ... or to write a poem about the graffiti of your life :-) The above is not mine by the way ... but it does illustrate how I feel this morning hi hi ... Have a good one dear friends, BT

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Fw: [MC74 and Friends] entry for Pointy theme

BiTi, EmCi,

Here's a slightly different take on the line "tay em lạnh để trong tình mình ấm", more fitting for the Pointy theme.:-)

Thank you, BiTi, for the collaboration.  A.Vinh thought the dash was an inspired touch; I told him I can't take credit for that or anything to do with the picture!

Mai-Uyen

Fw: [MC74 and Friends] super late entry for Heart theme

BiTi, EmCi,

Here it is.  Sorry for holding up progress.  To BiTi's rhetorical question about EmCi's pic, "Where is the key", the answer could very well be, "There isn't one." :-)

Thank you, big sis, for letting me use an utterly romantic pic to express not so romantic sentiments.

M-U

Fw: [MC74 and Friends] entry for the Heart theme

BiTi,

Here's the final version of our entry for "Heart" (I ran it by EmCi).  Thank you again for the collaboration.  A.Vinh LOVES the picture, and not just because he's relieved I didn't go through with my initial idea.;-)

M-U

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Fw: [MC74 and Friends] entry for Red and Gold theme

BiTi,

TNS thoughtfully left space on one of his beautiful hoa anh đào pics for me to ruin with a poem.:-)  Thank you, TNS.  Thanks also to my big sis EmCi for lending her artistic flair when I couldn't figure out how to make the entry fit the Red and Gold theme.

M-U

Horizon

Skyline silhouettes of wondrous kind,
Dreamy landscapes in many a sight,
Charming visions of ultimate delight
Nature refined touch better left undefined

From fallen dusk to early dawn
Twilight to the early light
Ocean, mountain sites to urban confines
Horizons, dashing sights of lovely vibes

Quang

New Year Calendar

New days sprout under snow cover.

Winged love hides just round the corner.

When the wind howls in your teapot,

Think blues skies and forget-me-nots

And tap your feet to soft raindrops.

Now grab your straw hats, your flip-flops, 

Set out on the year’s longest day

Through city streets, on sun-soaked bays,

To look for that famed hotdog stand,

Till sundown finds you hand in hand

And once tender leaves burst gold-red.

Turn for home where lil’ sleepy heads

Wait for the sweetest, quietest night

Before another year takes flight.


 Mai Uyen

          

Clouds Poem

Oh but a wisp, a golden glow in the distance
Our love backlit in its twilight
A cumulus nimbus, a drenching threat
I part the cottony billows, and seize the hope beyond

Treiet

Re: [MC74 and Friends] Tr: HORIZONS

HL,

Your shot of the two "thuyền thúng" and the caption helped me come up with this under-the-wire entry for Chân trời".  This is the first time I've tried verses in Vietnamese.  It's so hard my head hurts.

M-U

Re: [MC74 and Friends] Last fall pictures

Dear Blog Bosses, fellow bloggers:

Bi. do`i no*. by MC, but having no photos to contribute for Fall theme, may I instead recite a little poem? I was reminded of this poem when MC recently posted a picture for Fall she named La' Thu-Phong. I forgot who the author of these verses was ( could be Tan-Da`). Here it goes:


Trận gió thu-phong rụng lá hồng
Lá bay tường Bắc lá sang Đông
Hồng bay mấy lá năm hồ hết
Thơ-thẩn kìa ai vẫn đứng không.

Trận gió thu-phong rụng lá vàng
Lá bay hàng xóm lá bay sang
Vàng bay mấy lá năm già nửa
Hờ-hững ai xui thiếp phụ chàng.


Hope you all like it.

T.

horizon

Well, here's something I wrote for A.Vinh a while back called Either way.  TNS's Horizon with sun rays reminded me of it.

If there really are other suns,

Find the one, then come round for me.

But if there is no elsewhere to here,

Then let me cup your face in my hands

And hold the drawn breath between us

Till it wisps into once upon.

 Mai Uyen

Re: [MC74 and Friends] My contribution for the theme FALL

Dear BT, MC, PNEHs and Friends,

 

"Gió heo may đã về
Chiều tím loang vỉa hè
Và gió hôn tóc thề"
Rồi mùa thu,

Mùa thu...

 

Thu đến cho lá vàng rơi, lá rơi cho đám cưới về...

 

Inspired by the LV love story and the Fall season, I would like to contribute some stanzas for the theme FALL:

  Mùa Thu và Em

 

 Trời vào Thu lá vàng bay man mác Ru hồn anh vào cõi mộng hư vô

Ở nơi đây anh được thấy người mơ

Dắt tay anh dạo mùa thu dạt nắng

Mắt Em trong như hồ gương thanh vắng

Đẩy thu ba cho gợn sóng lòng anh

Anh nhấp nhô trên thuyền nước chòng chành

Lòng ngây ngất giăng cánh buồm lượn sóng

Em xõa tóc cuốn Mây Thu ảo mộng

Đem sương mù ấp ủ khắp sơn khê

Anh thả hồn lặn lội khắp bến mê

Để tìm đến bờ nước Thu mộng ước.

Thúy Hoà

Automne 2011

 

Subject: [MC74 and Friends] RE Trees end streets scenes / Khong con mua Thu

Chưa có thời giờ để kiẽm hình chup cho Trees and streets scenes nên tạm mượn những hình ảnh trong vidéo :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwYCfEz-pzo&feature=related

Trưa ngồi nghỉ đôi phút, giữa ngày làm việc hối hả và vội vã ,vưà ăn nhanh, vưà nghe nhạc cho tâm tư thanh thản .Hôm nay trơì Paris hơi đượm mây, báo hiện muà Thu sắp đến,sau một chuỗi ngày Thang Chín nắng ấm như một muà Hè muộn màng .

Chợt nghe một bản nhạc mình rất thích và thường hay đánh piano  những lúc tâm tư căng thẳng :

Không còn Muà Thu cuả nhạc sĩ Việt Anh 

Gởi đèn các bạn qua giọng hát của Hồng Nhung, với những hình ảnh thơ mộng cuả Hà Nội băm sáu phố phường mà mình vẫn yêu, qua bao lần đến đi Ha Nội , nhất là vào muà Thu, khi lá bắt đầu rụng trên các Phố, và mùi  hoa Sữa thoang thoảng đâu đó nở trắng trên khắp nẽo đường...

Bises a toutes et à tous !

Hy Hoà

Et un petit  poeme pour le blog

L Automne n' est plus / Không con muà Thu/ Viêt Anh

L Automne n' est plus  , la Lune se meurt sur le perron

Envolés les ballades qui nous ont bercés , et le rêve de tes lèvres si douces

Tu es comme un poème , comme le premier Printemps, prolongeant la nuit sans fin

Je serais cet  Automne ou` tu pourras venir te retrouver en rêves

Je serais cette ballade toujours et toujours à tes côtés

Tu es partie, à quoi bon les regrets de l Automne mordoré, du Printemps qui pointe

Si tu te souviens de nous, reviens allumer les étoiles dans le ciel

Si tu te souviens de nous, ces nuits de tempête

Quand ta longue chevelure au clair de lune

Et ces mots d' amour qui par pudeur n 'ont pas franchi les lèvres 

Ce chemin que j' ai traversé , jusqu' au bout de l horizon

Ce chemin ou j 'irai , nul ne  le connait 

Le soir tombe de lassitude, le chant des berçeuses n' est plus qu 'un rêve

Qui berce  ma mélancolie et devient poème 

Traduction Hy Hoà

Không Còn Mùa Thu

Tác giả: Việt Anh

Không còn mùa thu, trăng rơi bên thềm 

Không còn lời ru, mơ trên môi mềm 

Em thơ, như mùa xuân đầu, nối dài đêm thâu 

Anh làm mùa thu, cho em mơ màng 

Anh làm lời ru, quấn quýt bên nàng 

Em đi, tiếc gì thu vàng, tiếc gì xuân sang 

Còn thương nhớ nhau, về thắp sao trời 

Còn thương nhớ nhau, từng đêm bão tố 

Tóc ướt trăng thề, lời yêu chưa nói trên môi vụng về 

Đường ta đã qua, chìm khuất chân trời 

Đường ta sẽ qua, nào ai biết tới 

Chiều buông rã rời, ru lòng thôi mơ, ru buồn lên thơ

Hy Hoa

Dear MCi,

I went to take some pictures of my first tulips, just open shy but then after a few shots, I realize that there were no card in my camera. Since I couldn't find an SD card, I can't take pics right? I'm so sorry. Let me offer a love poem instead... until I find my SD cards.

A toi

Tu viens dans mes pensées à mon insu

Je sens sur mon corps tes caresses d'hier

Les as-tu déjà oubliées aujourd'hui?

Ou m'attends-tu en disant, elle viendra!

Tu viens dans mes nuits à mon insu,

Et je te caresse dans le noir de mes rêves,

Les as-tu senties mes mains d'amante?

Ou pense-tu que c'est le vent qui te supplie!

Tu viens dans mes frayeurs à mon insu

Et je peins la mer et le vent en gris,

Les as-tu vus qui grondent et se déchirent?

Ou n'as-tu vu que le reflet de tes yeux!

Tu viens dans mes croyances à mon insu,

Et je vois la terre qui bascule au bout,

Les as-tu dits tes mots de tendresse?

Ou n'est-ce que mon nom que tu murmures...

Et tu viens en moi à mon insu,

Et sur la roche dure, le vent hurle,

L'avons-nous fait souffrir et gémir?

Ou n'est-ce que le désir qu'il emporte...

tc

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Thuy' Cha^u's poem

Thanks dear MC for the beautiful flowers.
I only have 2 or 3 crocuses in my garden. Spring is so late this year.


J'ai vu la corneille quittant son arbre,
Descendre en un vol plané
Elle s'est posée sur la souche coupée
Sévère et silencieuse comme une ombre

Ah il lui manque un coup raté
Des complices, ou quelque grosse astuce
Et aucun animal n'est à ses trousses
Ni aigle, ni geai bleu, ni perroquet

J'ai vu l'herbe qui s'est transformée
De sombre et méchant tapis
En humides monticules verdoyants
Où se glisseront les jaunes pissenlits

Et j'attends encore demain
Où fleuriront printemps et beaux lilas
Où le temps ne fera pas grise mine
Quand le ciel bleu sera radieux de joie

Toute la bande de corneilles d'hier
N'est pas revenue aujourd'hui,
Et les arbres gazouillent de bruits
D'oiseaux qui commencent leur nid

J'ai vu l'eau verte miroiter
Entre les roseaux des berges inondées
La loutre noire toute luisante
Glisser bien vite entre deux courants

Mes pauvres tulipes sont plus qu'en retard
Elles font pitié avec leurs bulbes verts
Et le mois de mai qui déboule en trombe
N'attendra pas les belles traînardes

J'ai vu la noire corneille monter
Sur son arbre, pour bien croasser
Eh bien? Qu'est-ce qu'elle peut bien demander?
Ah j'ai l'impression que c'est un bon juron!


tc