“My Soul Turns into a Love Reserve” (2015, by the late Poet Ho Anh Tuan)




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“Back to Cat Ba with you

Where the ancients of Cat Co beach held a bathing festival on the full moon night

I stepped on the footsteps of the ancient Vietnamese

I am pure in the midst of pure National Park

We are also a “biosphere conservation area”.

Thousand-year spring conservation area

My soul turns into a love reserve »

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Back to Cat Ba with you

There is a cloud over the primeval times

Turn the golden sand into the mountain chest

There is “coral field” Van Boi

We anchor the boat in the middle of the bay with the sun

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Back to Cat Ba with you

Meet Sapa Spring

Wandering the misty valley of Tran Chau, Khe Sau, Gia Luan

The sound of the horn and the sound of the waves echoing

Reminiscent of the sound of a H’mong boy’s trumpet

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Back to Cat Ba with you

Meet the summer of Dalat

Hien Hao valley is full of pine trees

Release love verse to the plateau

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Back to Cat Ba with you

Meet autumn in Nha Trang

I hear my heart wake up in the wasteland

The gulgula drops its golden voice

Releasing in the sunset afternoon the singing swiftlets

Coming to High Heel Islet missing Husband Islet dearly

Your fallen clog fossilises my heart

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Back to Cat Ba with you

Where the ancients of Cat Co beach held a bathing festival on the full moon night

I stepped on the footsteps of the ancient Vietnamese

I am pure in the midst of pure National Park

We are also a “biosphere conservation area”.

Thousand-year spring conservation area

Our souls turn into a love reserve”.




Cat Ba National Park, 2015