Touching poem about the General

(Baonghean) -In the poetry collection “The Immortal” (Writers Association Publishing House) with 103 poems, I was really impressed with the poem “He relied on the people’s hearts to return peacefully” by author Nong Nan Pho, 25 years old, from Thanh Chuong, currently working in Ho Chi Minh City.

"The Kien Giang River flows quietly

There was a girl sitting by the river screaming alone

If anyone asks why? Our homeland…”

Then silence

Hand on chest hear heart constriction

Is this the heartbeat of Quang Binh, sir?

I whispered a lot to his soul: The story of the people waiting for the hearse and crying for him, the story of the trees and birds filled with human pain, the story of the ripe rice fields submerged in the raging storm and flood. But the farmers of his hometown still kept their pure humanity, the story of the past and present, very much the culture of the Vietnamese countryside: the grandmother carried her grandchild to the village entrance to welcome her mother, lovingly coaxing her grandchild to count each banyan leaf of the village like when he was a child, his grandmother also carried his mother like that. When he returned to his hometown, I told his soul: together with the soil of his hometown "filled by the small river", he had stumbled on the blood of his parents, the villagers and the whole history page filled with tears in his heart. He returned to warm the hearts of each hometown, returned to the waiting of the trees and grass, of the boys and girls, of the "old ladies with two teeth still chewing red betel", of each kitchen corner, thatched roof, "fragrant bamboo wall... the bitter sweetness of human life".

Born from the people, until the moment he closed his eyes, "He held on to the people's hearts to return peacefully." Nong Nan Pho not only spoke for millions of Vietnamese hearts at home and abroad about the pain of loss before "The misfortune that will not be seen again for a hundred years", but also helped us realize and understand more clearly the miraculous secret of the character of the honest man Vo Nguyen Giap. He did not become a Saint, a Fairy, or a Buddha, but was born right in this "sweet and bitter life" of Vietnam!

"He relied on the people's hearts to return peacefully", the poem touched people's hearts!

Meritorious Artist Le Thai Phong

Vinh City