From the most generous scholar-poet in the world, with nearly 2,000 pages of freely distributable e-works—covering soulistic transports of masterpieces of Vietnamese literature into English, including The Tale of Kiều, Chinh Phụ Ngâm, and Hịch Tướng Sĩ, alongside translations of hundreds of Vietnamese poems and songs. Open-access literary sites include thetaleofkieu.lachong.net, featuring about 3,000 poems/songs and hundreds of soulistic transports, and hanthituyendich.lachong.net, housing 250+ curated Chinese classics with several soulistic transports into Vietnamese.
🌙 WM–SINGULAR–01: George Washington – Crown of Honor
History's Greatest Single-Song Tribute to George Washington & the Spirit of Liberty of America.
🌙 WM–SINGULAR–02: 怀兴道大王 | Hoài Hưng Đạo Đại Vương
The World's Greatest Musical Tribute to Prince General Trần Hưng Đạo & the Lạc Hồng Spirit of Unity and Liberty. Sung in Mandarin and Vietnamese.
🌙 WM–SINGULAR–03: Epic Ode to my Homeland
The world's grandest and most extensive epic ode in English to one's homeland.
🌙 WM–SINGULAR–04: Vọng Tiền Nhân | Reminiscence of Historical Figures
The World's Grandest Lục Bát Epic Song of Vietnamese History & Literary Heritage. An immortal verse-song weaving together ancestral legends, literary immortals, and national triumphs through traditional lục bát melodies, accompanied by English subtitles.
🌙 WM–SINGULAR–05: Queen Trưng | Trưng Nữ Vương
The world's most touching and operatic musical adaptation from Water-Moon World of the poem masterpiece 'Trưng Nữ Vương' by Poetess Ngân Giang.
🌙 WM–SINGULAR–06: Nostalgic Regrets | 感懷 | Cảm Hoài
A monumental, surging Water–Moon English presentation of the celebrated lushi poem 感懷 (Cảm Hoài) by early 15th-century Vietnamese patriot-scholar Đặng Dung, featuring Chinese, Hán-Việt, and Vietnamese subtitles.
🌙 WM–SINGULAR–07: Wine Flagon Song | Hồ Trường
The world's most cinematic duet English adaptation of the celebrated poem–song Hồ Trường.
🌙 WM–SINGULAR–08: Parting Farewell | Tống Biệt Hành
The world's most cinematic musical adaptation of Thâm Tâm's celebrated poem.
🌙 WM–SINGULAR–09: The Exiled Fayland Citizen
The Exiled Fayland Citizen's bio-song.
🌙 WM–SINGULAR–10: Confiding in the Moon
Lyrical thought–stream that blurs the lines between prose, poetry, and song.
🌙 WM–SINGULAR–11: The Flight Journey of Lyrical Free Verse
A Musical Manifesto of Lyrical Free Verse.
🌙 WM–SINGULAR–12: Beautiful Like a Dream
The Prince of Muse Poetry's dream-song of Fayland and time-travel to the ancient past.
🌙 WM–SINGULAR–13: Heart Friend | Tri Tâm
A jug of wine amid the far end of the world
A heart friend, whence to seek, since eons ago...
In the heart of this vast, misty universe,
whence was my previous self, that was like a dream...
🌙 WM–SINGULAR–14: Song of Unrestraint
In this world, who’s truly sober, who’s truly drunk.
To know one’s own heart, to follow its unfaltering flame.
Calling on the souls of kindred spirits,
Come, have a wild drinking night with me,
abandon all restraints and be free.
Abandon all restraints—come, be free!
🌙 WM–SINGULAR–15: Mơ Với Chim Bằng | Dream Flying With Bằng
A soaring bilingual cinematic adaptation of the Exiled Fayland Citizen's grand Vietnamese lushi poem. Song excerpt:
Dream flying with Bằng, a giant mythical bird,
Just within a day’s flight, soar across the world.
At sunset’s glow on grasslands soft and wide,
Picking fading strands of golden light.
🌙 WM–SINGULAR–16: Thiên Nhai Đối Tuyết | Snow at the Edge of the World
A cinematic ballad of a wandering scholar’s mystic dialogue with the snow spirit, capturing a frozen moment of celestial wine, wandering fate, and transcendent release. Sung in Vietnamese with English subs.
🌙 WM–SINGULAR–17: Seeking Fragrance in the Wind
Seeking for whom in this life.
Seeking for whom in the exhalation
of a deep long sigh…
Seeking for whom amid the far sea…
Seeking for whom
since the earth was still primitive.
🌙 WM–SINGULAR–18: Is It You?
Is it you, is it truly you?
That light I see when the world is through?
I call your name, but the wind replies—
Only the echo beneath the skies.
🌙 WM–SINGULAR–19: O 芳菲, Mythical Maiden
The most beautiful myth-making verse portrait of a flute maiden, woven with moonlight threads.
🌙 WM–SINGULAR–20: Jane Austen – The Narrator–Smile
History's most beautiful musical tribute to Jane Austen, the Queen of World Literature.
🌙 WM–SINGULAR–21: She Plays the Guzheng (A Song Tribute to Peng Jingxuan)
The most beautiful musical tribute to the guzheng maiden of France.
🌙 WM–SINGULAR–22: Cloud-woven lullaby of the heart
The wandering clouds halt their aimless drifting,
The forest birds hush their merry tweets.
The river's currents pause for many a heartbeat...
All listen to the melody floating in the air.
Is it truly coming from the lips of a maiden,
Or is this music a gift from the Heavens?
🌙 WM–SINGULAR–23: Flame and Mist: A Portrait of Zhang Xinyu (张馨予) in Verse
The most faithful and cinematic song portrait of Zhang Xinyu – a maiden of wintry grace, a siren of dazzling flame, and a master artist of the painting art.
🌙 WM–SINGULAR–24: For Karen – The Most Soulistic and Soul–Embracing Voice in the World
History's most empathic and touching song dedicated to Karen.
🌙 WM–SINGULAR–25: 朱枚 (Zhu Mei): The Forsaken Soul
For Zhu Mei, the beautiful and virtuous co-founder of the Ming Bao empire (明報), who lived in poor obscurity after being betrayed for a young bride, and died of sickness in a hospital unknown to anyone.
🌙 WM–SINGULAR–26: The Twelfth Night of June | Mười Hai Tháng Sáu
An intense, operatic masterpiece breathing new life into Poet Vũ Hoàng Chương's signature poem.
🌙 WM–SINGULAR–27: Swear Not By The Moon
An intimate and soaring verse–story opera adaptation of Shakespeare's iconic Balcony Scene.
🌙 WM–SINGULAR–28: Đừng Lấy Ánh Trăng Thề | Swear Not By The Moon
Water–Moon verse–story opera adaptation in Vietnamese of Shakespeare's iconic Balcony Scene.
🌙 WM–SINGULAR–29: Endless Longing | 長相思
Tenth-century Chinese femme poet Lương Ý Nương’s (梁意娘) endless longing, adapted into an intensely poignant English operatic masterpiece.
🌙 WM–SINGULAR–30: On the Top of Misty Cloud Mountain | Trên Đỉnh Phù Vân
An intensely grief-haunting verse-story opera adaptation of Phó Đức Phương’s legendary ca trù masterpiece.
🌙 WM–SINGULAR–31: Spring Orchid Pavillion Melody | 春庭蘭調 | Lan Đình Xuân Điệu
Water-Moon's operatic love ballad adaptation of Poetess Hồ Xuân Hương's poetry masterpiece.
WM–SINGULAR–32: An Unsent Love Letter to Nguyễn Du | Cảm Cựu Kiêm Trình...
From the Poetess Hồ Xuân Hương, a heart-touching unsent love letter of longing and sorrow, masterfully adapted from the lushi poem into a Water-Moon verse-story opera.
🌙 WM–SINGULAR–33: Biệt Thế Gian — Khúc Song Ca Tiểu Long Nữ & Dương Quá
A musical retelling of the tragic love story between Yang Guo and Xiaolongnü—from the 16-year promise to the heart-wrenching cry at the cliff’s edge, and the fateful reunion beyond the mortal world. A duet between love and destiny, between this world… and the next.
🌙 WM–SINGULAR–34: Jealous Love | Ghen
Dramatic opera adaptation of Nguyễn Bính's light-humour love verse of exaggerated jealousy.
🌙 WM–SINGULAR–35: The Enchantress | Kỳ Nữ
A cinematic adaptation of Đinh Hùng's masterpiece of hauntingly devotional obsession.
🌙 WM–SINGULAR–36: A Tiger’s Longing For The Forest | Nhớ Rừng
A Water–Moon operatic adaptation of Poet Thế Lữ's masterpiece.
🌙 WM–SINGULAR–37: Village Well | Giếng Làng
A cinematic romantic ballad that breathes new life into a quaint 1940's poem by Poet Bàng Bá Lân about a love story with the village well backdrop of rural Vietnam.
🌙 WM–SINGULAR–38: Conversation With a Mosquito | Nói Chuyện Với Muỗi
A Water–Moon bilingual theatrical adaptation of Patriot Phan Bội Châu’s satirical verse, featuring interleaved Vietnamese singing and English voice acting.
🌙 WM–SINGULAR–39: A Stroll by the Silver River | Dạo Bước Ngân Hà
A cinematic duet ballad adaptation of a dynamic jueju verse dialogue between the Prince of Muse Poetry and Miss Dream of Fayland.
🌙 WM–SINGULAR–40: O Little Girl, Beware of the Wind
A cinematic fantasy Water–Moon verse–story opera about a little girl who dreams of becoming a bird.
🌙 WM–SINGULAR–41: 懷謫仙李白 | Reminiscence of the Exiled Immortal Li Bai
A tribute jueju poem, sung in four languages, to the Exiled Immortal Li Bai from the Eastern–Avalonian poet Vuong Thanh.
筆氣縱橫動四方
半壺美酒出仙章
乘風直到嫦娥殿
詩醉神遊入夢堂
🌙 WM–SINGULAR–42: Bring in the Wine | 將進酒 | Tương Tiến Tửu
The most cinematic, faithful and lyrical English adaptation of Li Bai's masterpiece.
🌙 WM–SINGULAR–43: Frontier Moon | 關山月 | Quan San Nguyệt
The most faithful and lyrical yet duet–romantic adaptation of Li Bai's masterpiece into English.
🌙 WM–SINGULAR–44: Mẫu Đơn Hàm Lộ Trân Châu Khỏa | 牡丹含露珍珠 (Peony Holding Dewdrops of Pearls)
The most beautiful Vietnamese adaptation of Trương Tiên's (張先) masterpiece. Sung in Hán Việt and Vietnamese lục bát – a sovereign melodious poetry form.
🌙 WM–SINGULAR–45: Giai Nhân | 佳人
A Water–Moon cinematic adaptation of Du Fu's masterpiece in Vietnamese.
🌙 WM–TRIBUNAL–46: After Five Centuries, O Joan...
A Water–Moon hymn-lament for Joan of Arc, the Savior of France, the Anointed Messenger of God.
🌙 WM–TRIBUNAL–47: Cry of the Ashes – Joan of Arc’s Mother’s Laments
🌙 WM–TRIBUNAL–48: Napoleon’s Island Vacation Packages
A satirical song exposing Napoleon as he truly is — a power-avaricous, ungrateful fool who trades paradise for a self-glorifying crown. A heartless villain indifferent to the deaths of millions in his climb to power — yet a despicable coward quick to desert his soldiers to save his skin, and quick to surrender over the corpses of tens of thousands of loyal men he shamelessly led to their deaths for his own greed.
🌙 WM–TRIBUNAL–49: The Scarlet Letter Fraud
Hawthorne wrote a manipulative narrative to wring reader sympathy for an unworthy, pathetic coward, while the true victim is shoved into the sideline periphery. The Scarlet Letter is a monument of moral and hypocritical rot, crowned by a deathbed confession that sneaks a deceitful priest away from the deserving punishment of true justice.
🌙 WM–TRIBUNAL–50: On Tolkien's Masterpiece Treated as Children's Fiction
Oh, blind fools that they are,
So blind with conformity and tradition,
They failed to recognize the building of a civilization
Right in front of their eyes.
🌙 WM–TRIBUNAL–51: The Fraudulent Definitions of Visual and Perfect Rhyme
The textbook definition of perfect rhyme
is plainly a lie.
Take "love and move" or "leak" and "break,"
they do not at all rhyme!
Rhyming by definition is a property
of sound, of hearing;
it has nothing to do with a word's spelling.
🌙 WM–TRIBUNAL–52: When Prose Becomes Queen of Poetry
Song Excerpt:
Now everyone can be a poet,
since prose has become the ruling queen.
Write anything off the top of your head,
break it into lines —
no need to refine a word.
Refinement is now
an artificial adornment,
replaced by raw, fleeting thoughts
that leap from washing the car
to gazing at shimmering stars
in a single breath.
🌙 WM–TRIBUNAL–53: The Folly of Blind Echoes and Untruths
An illuminating exposure on the hollowness of herd mentality's echoes, using Sonnet 18 to demonstrate unclouded reason.
🌙 WM–TRIBUNAL–54: The Byronic Poison
The compound "Byronic hero," ho ho ho,
A deceptive mask to romanticize
A self-inflating, peer-trampling, daughter-forsaking decadent.
Ho ho ho…
🌙 WM–TRIBUNAL–55: The Emperor's New Clothes of Unlyrical Prose Poetry
A theatrical cabaret song exposing the hollow hypocrisies of contemporary poetry trends.
🌙 WM–TRIBUNAL–56: Some Thoughts on a Friend's Confessional Poem
Asking—no, requiring—human empathy,
using raw pain as a perfect shield
for the absence of craft and finesse.
🌙 WM–TRIBUNAL–57: When the World... (From Tribunal of Clarity)
Exposing the systemic decay where the world glorifies war-mongers, romanticizes decadence, mistakes moral rot for literature, and reduces poetry to unlyrical, crude prose lacking refinement and grace.
🌙 WM–SINGULAR–58: Who Will Gather for Me | Ngày Tháng Phiêu Bồng
Who’ll gather for me, who’ll gather for me?
Pieces of a heart lost drifting in the sea.
Who’ll gather for me, who’ll gather for me?
The dust of life, the hopes that set me free.
Original Verse: Bùi Kim Thảo | A Water-Moon Presentation
🌙 WM–SINGULAR–59: The Rebirthing Kiss | Nụ Hôn Tái Sinh
Her eyes — clear streams with jade’s soft glow,
That cleanse my soul in gentle flow.
Her heart — the source of love’s deep sea,
That heals all wounds and sets hearts free.
Original Verse: Đào Mai Hương | A Water-Moon Presentation
🌙 WM–SINGULAR–60: I Wish To Be | Cho Ta Xin
A cloud-lullaby, duet-sweet, tender love ballad adaptation of femme poet Quỳnh Hương's poem.
🌙 WM–SINGULAR–61: Autumn Strings of Sorrow | Huyền Ca
You sow sorrow into the strings,
I feel the pain of distant longings.
Your voice floats with enchanting music notes
Wrapping my heart in the song of Love.
Original Verse: Trần Hồ Dũng | A Water-Moon Presentation
🌙 WM–SINGULAR–62: Lullaby of the Six-Eight Verse | Em từ lục bát bước ra
From the six-eight folk verse, she steps into the world
Her lullaby carries nostalgia of sweet days of long ago
Night by night, she gazes at the sky
The stars dim, the fishes dive, spider webs whisper home...
Original Verse: Đặng Lệ Khánh | A Water-Moon Presentation
🌙 WM–SINGULAR–63: Small Hand in Papa's Hand | Bàn Tay Nhỏ
Whoever has ever slept on the desk
when waking up
found herself sleeping on the bed.
Whoever has ever slept on the sofa
when waking up
found an extra warm blanket.
Even if I cry a thousand times,
Papa always wipe away my tears.
Original Verse: Nguyên Thu | A Water-Moon Presentation
🌙 WM–SINGULAR–64: Paris, Paris
Paris, counting your footsteps, my Darling,
on the Latin street,
Paris, your long hair flies in the wind,
Paris, the coffee shop, Saint Germain,
where we have our first together drinks.
Original Verse: Văn Tấn Phước | A Water-Moon Presentation
🌙 WM–SINGULAR–65: Saigon, Season of Longing | Sài Gòn Mùa Nhớ
The Saigon that was in your heart and in my heart.
Still deliciously sweet like a dish of ice cream.
Still vibrantly alive with the bustling sounds of the past.
Each time I’m away, I dream of returning…
Original Verse: Minh Vân | A Water-Moon Presentation
🌙 WM–SINGULAR–66: One Thousand & One Nights | Một Ngàn Lẻ Một Đêm
One thousand and one nights,
resting in your warm embrace.
An enchanted moment, gone too quickly
Yet in my heart —it lasts eternity.
It lasts eternity... It lasts eternity...
Original Verse: Vương Anh Đào | A Water-Moon Presentation
🌙 WM–SINGULAR–67: Reminiscence About Mỵ Châu Upon Seeing Bow and Arrow
O Mỵ Châu, I’m thinking of you with compassion and regret.
Which well water can erase the pain in your heart?
The green jade, absorbing your blood, is filled with sorrow.
Lying silently in the soul of the pearl oysters.
Original Verse: "Nhìn Cung Tên Nhớ Mỵ Châu" by Đặng Lệ Khánh | A Water-Moon Presentation
🌙 WM–SINGULAR–68: Evening on the Longing River | Chiều Trên Sông Tương
Who stands so quietly
at the Longing River’s end,
listening to an exotic melody from afar?
Longing for whom is the music so full of sorrow?
Original Verse: Yên Sơn | A Water-Moon Presentation
🌙 WM–SINGULAR–69: To One Waiting Under the Moonlight | Gởi Người Dưới Trăng
Thou gather wind to make the flag fly!
Thou cross the Dịch Thủy River and wait under the moonlight…
Sitting here, I redraw the history of a hundred years
and clasp onto an ancient statue Waiting for Thee.
Original Verse: Song Nhị | A Water-Moon Presentation
🌙 WM–SINGULAR–70: Lullaby of the Sea | Tiếng Sóng Ru Con
Mother’s holding arms are like the sky’s hammock.
Soft footsteps, like birds flitting from branch to branch.
The sound of gentle waves on a calm sea,
blending with the ocean breeze of coastal winds.
Original Verse: Femme Artist-Poet Thanh Trí | A Water-Moon Presentation
🌙 WM–SINGULAR–71: Selling Coal | Bán Than
A bilingual, spirited Water-Moon verse-story opera adapted from the only surviving lushi poem of Trần Khánh Dư — a legendary Vietnamese wartime general who lived over a hundred years old (1240–1342).
🌙 WM–SINGULAR–72: The Nameless Heroes | Anh Hùng Vô Danh
A Fayland Duet Rendition of Nguyễn Ngọc Huy's celebrated poem, taught in Vietnamese high schools in the late 1950s.
🌙 WM–SINGULAR–73: TÔI ĐI | I LEAVE
Master artist Hùng Cường’s thunderingly dramatic performance of his own song, with English subs by Water–Moon.
🌙 WM–SINGULAR–74: O Lady of Peace | Hỡi Người Em Hòa Bình
A Water–Moon presentation of Vĩnh Điện's song, celebrating peace and a dream of unity of the Vietnamese people.
🌙 WM–SINGULAR–75: March Into Thăng Long | Tràn Vô Thăng Long
A Water–Moon English presentation of Trần Kim Bằng's thundering patriotic song.
🌙 WM–TUENGA–76: The Lullaby of Mother Vietnam | Lời Ru Mẹ Việt Nam
A Water–Moon presentation of Zen–Buddhist Poetess Tuệ Nga's nostalgic and contemplative homeland poem.
🌙 WM–SINGULAR–77: A Distressed Vietnam | Phận Da Vàng
A Water–Moon presentation of songwriter Nguyễn Minh Hải's cinematic patriotic song.
🌙 WM–SINGULAR–78: Patriotic Vietnamese Spirit | Anh Khí Nghìn Thu
A soaring cinematic bilingual musical rendering of Vuong Thanh's singular patriotic lushi poem that uses four historical references in the 2 pairs of parallel/contrast couplets.
🌙 WM–SINGULAR–79: Parting Farewell | Tống Biệt
A Water-Moon duet ballad of exquisite parting melancholy, masterfully adapted from Tản Đà's classic masterpiece into English verse.
🌙 WM–SINGULAR–80: Invitation to Friends | Mời Bằng Hữu
A reflective Water-Moon adaptation celebrating life, friendship, and poetic intoxication, masterfully rendered from the late scholar-poet Hà Thượng Nhân’s contemplative verse. Sung in an ethereal fairy maiden voice, bridging classical philosophical echoes with a timeless modern resonance.
🌙 WM–SINGULAR–81: Mother Heart | Lòng Mẹ
A most beautiful Water-Moon English adaptation of songwriter Y Vân's celebrated song.
🌙 WM–SINGULAR–82: To the Land of Cherry Blossoms | Ai Lên Xứ Hoa Đào
The most beautiful and romantic adaptation of Hoàng Nguyên's famous song into English.
🌙 WM–SINGULAR–83: The Harp With Thousands of Melodies | Cây Đàn Muôn Điệu
Thế Lữ’s classic masterpiece preserved as a Water-Moon cinematic contemplative duet ballad, bridging timeless lyrical heritage with global poetic resonance.
🌙 WM–SINGULAR–84: Drinking With My Mirror Image | Soi Gương Uống Rượu
Poetess Hoàng Hương Trang’s signature poem of love, heartbreak, and wine preserved as a Water-Moon cinematic verse-story opera, featuring the author’s realtime poetry recital within a literary circle.
🌙 WM–SINGULAR–85: Lustrous Stream of Hair | Suối Tóc
Song composer Văn Phụng's signature song preserved as a Water-Moon tender and romantic Fayland Duet Rendition.
🌙 WM–SINGULAR–86: An Evening on the Tam Giang Lagoon | Chiều Trên Phá Tam Giang
Trần Thiện Thanh's famous song preserved as a Water-Moon romantic Fayland Duet Rendition.
🌙 WM–SINGULAR–87: Đàn Thu Tay Ngọc | Autumn Music, Jade Fingers
Interplay of singing & poetry recital, performed by vocal artist HDN for Đinh Hùng & Thục Vũ's masterpiece poem-song.
🌙 WM–SINGULAR–88: Tìm Một Ánh Sao | Seeking a Star
Hoàng Trọng & Vĩnh Phúc's heart-touchingly romantic song preserved through a Water-Moon edition with English subtitles, featuring the beautiful, soul-touching voice of HDN.
🌙 WM–SINGULAR–89: Tête-à-tête Under Flowers | Tình Tự Dưới Hoa
Đinh Hùng's masterpiece romantic classic brought to the English world through a cinematic Water-Moon Fayland Duet Rendition.
🌙 WM–SINGULAR–90: Spring Longing, Poem 1 of 10 | Hoài Xuân Thập Vịnh Kỳ 1
Celebrated Poetess Đoàn Thị Điểm's spring lushi poem faithfully rendered in English.
🌙 WM–SINGULAR–91: Send the Wind to Let the Clouds Fly | Gửi Gió Cho Mây Ngàn Bay
Đoàn Chuẩn - Từ Linh's masterpiece romantic classic soulistically transported to the English world.
🌙 WM–SINGULAR–92: Hòn Vọng Phu | Husband-Waiting Rock
Lê Thương's masterpiece epic ode, over 10 minutes, presented by the gifted vocalist HDN. Sung in Vietnamese, with English subs.
🌙 WM–SINGULAR–93: Moonlight Bridge | Thu Tứ
Scholar-poet Phương Hồ's contemplative autumn lushi poem of reverie, preserved in Water-Moon bilingual Fayland maiden rendition.
WM–SINGULAR–94: Early Plum Blossoms II | Tảo Mai II
A contemplative lushi masterpiece by the Buddha King Trần Nhân Tông on friendship and reverie, rendered through a Water-Moon Fayland Maiden adaptation, sung in Hán-Việt and English.
WM–SINGULAR–95: Tranquil Scene | Cảnh Nhàn
Celebrated lushi poem of Scholar-Poet Nguyễn Bỉnh Khiêm of 16th century Vietnam, brought to the Western world in this Water-Moon English Fayland baritone rendition.
WM–SINGULAR–96: A Man's Aspiration | Chí Làm Trai
Celebrated poem of Scholar-Poet Nguyễn Công Trứ of 19th century Vietnam, brought to the Western world in this Water-Moon cinematic English Fayland duet rendition.
WM–SINGULAR–97: Self-Reflection on Taking the Civil Exam | Đi Thi Tự Vịnh
Celebrated lushi poem of Scholar-Poet Nguyễn Công Trứ of 19th century Vietnam, brought to the Western world in this Water-Moon cinematic English Fayland baritone rendition.
WM–SINGULAR–98: Độc Tiểu Thanh Ký | On Reading Tiểu Thanh's Story
A Fayland maiden rendition of Nguyễn Du's compassionate lushi poem for Tiểu Thanh, written in Chinese. Sung in Hán Việt and Water-Moon soulistic transport to Vietnamese.
WM–SINGULAR–99: Crossing Ngang Pass | Qua Đèo Ngang
A Water-Moon soulistic transport of Bà Huyện Thanh Quan's celebrated lushi poem into English. Sung in Vietnamese and English.
WM–SINGULAR–100: Pilgrim Evening | Buổi Chiều Lữ Thứ
A Water-Moon soulistic transport of Bà Huyện Thanh Quan's (19th-century Vietnam) celebrated masterpiece of twilight longing, existential reverie, and timeless sorrow. Sung in Vietnamese and English, bridging classical East Asian heritage with global poetic resonance.
WM–SINGULAR–101: Overview Poem About Kiều | Tổng Vịnh Kiều
Scholar-Poet Nguyễn Khuyến's 19th-century Vietnamese lushi poem about Kiều, brought to new life through a Fayland Maiden Rendition in English.
WM–SINGULAR–102: Three Lives of Wandering | Ba Kiếp Lang Thang
Vũ Hoàng Chương's classic masterpiece gains new life in a poignant Water-Moon Fayland Maiden Rendition in English.
WM–SINGULAR–103: Silent Love | U Tình
Vũ Hoàng Chương's classic masterpiece of silent love gains new life in a mournful Water-Moon Fayland Maiden Rendition in English.
WM–SINGULAR–104: To My Beloved In Her Grave | Gửi Người Dưới Mộ
Đinh Hùng's haunting classic masterpiece in the 1950s brought to the West in a cinematic Water-Moon verse-story opera.
WM–SINGULAR–105: The Girl Next Door | Cô Hàng Xóm
Nguyễn Bính's romantic classic masterpiece of love for the girl next door in the 1940s brought to the West in a cinematic Water-Moon verse-story opera.
WM–SINGULAR–106: Being Young Again | Như Đời Trẻ Lại
Poetess Tuệ Mai's celebration-poem of being young again, written in the 1970s, now brought to the West and soulistically captured in this lyrical Water-Moon English adaptation.
WM–SINGULAR–107: The Dreamy–Melancholy Maiden | Một Mùa Đông
Who made you such a lovely maiden
To fill my life with sorrow?
Who placed you by the window’s edge
To entangle a poet’s wandering heart?
Original Verse: Lưu Trọng Lư | A Water-Moon Presentation
WM–SINGULAR–108: Do Not Come, My Love | Ngập Ngừng
Hồ Dzếnh's signature poem, written in the 1940s, brought to the West in a cinematic Water-Moon English adaptation, brought to life through a gifted Fayland maiden voice.
WM–SINGULAR–109: Literary Gentleman | Ông Đồ
Vũ Đình Liên's classical masterpiece of nostalgia, written in the 1930s, brought to the West in this cinematic Water-Moon Fayland Maiden Rendition.
WM–SINGULAR–110: Vỹ Dạ Village | Đây Thôn Vỹ Dạ
Hàn Mặc Tử's classical masterpiece, written in the 1930s, brought to the West in this cinematic Water-Moon bilingual interleaved rendition, performed by a gifted Fayland maiden.
WM–SINGULAR–111: Buy Me A Dress, Darling | Mua Áo
Đông Hồ's romantic classical masterpiece, written in the 1930s, brought to the West in this cinematic, tenderly romantic Water-Moon duet ballad.
WM–SINGULAR–112: Sweet Maiden's Revenge | Em Trả Thù
Poetess Mộng Tuyết's poem, written in early 20th century, – sweet maiden's revenge against her poet husband for gazing at the moon in reverie when she wants his attention.
WM–SINGULAR–113: Two Divided Shores | Đôi Bờ
Quang Dũng's classical masterpiece of longing for separated love due to wartime, composed in the late 1940s, brought to the West in this cinematic Water-Moon verse-story opera.
WM–SINGULAR–114: I Khow You're Leaving and Won't Return | Anh Biết Em Đi...
Thái Can's classical masterpiece, composed in the 1930s, brought to the West in a cinematic Water-Moon bilingual interleaved adaptation, performed as a duet.
WM–SINGULAR–115: Old-time Love | Tình Già
Phan Khôi's classical masterpiece, composed in 1932, considered to be the poem that propagates the "Thơ Mới" (New Poetry) movement. Brought to the West, in this Water-Moon bilingual interleaved presentation.
WM–SINGULAR–116: Tears of Stone | Lệ Đá – Trần Trịnh & Hà Huyền Chi
Ask the stone covered with moss... how long it's been
Ask the wandering wind... how many skies it has seen
Ask the long nights... the pale yellow street lights
Love! Love now is just tears... in my heart
And flashes of longings for the times that were past.
WM–SINGULAR–117: Without Me | Cần Thiết
Nguyên Sa's celebrated poem of confessional love brought to the West in this tenderly romantic Water-Moon duet ballad.
WM–SINGULAR–118: Heart-warming Evening in Cali | Men Chiều
I draw lines of verse
with meticulous brush strokes.
Your ten fingers
like flowers
dancing over the notes
of a music melody…
We emptied
glasses of friendship-scented wine.
Although we met just once,
it seems like
it has been a hundred years
knowing you.
Original Verse: Vũ Hối | A Water-Moon Presentation
WM–SINGULAR–119: Con Thuyền Không Bến | The Boat Without a Destination
Đặng Thế Phong's signature song of nostalgia, performed by celebrated singer Lệ Thu. Sung in Vietnamese with English subs.
WM–SINGULAR–120: Faint Moonlight by the Brook | Trăng Mờ Bên Suối
Brought to the West in a cinematic Water-Moon Bilingual Interleaved Edition, Lê Mộng Nguyên’s celebrated signature song of lovers’ tryst finds a timeless echo across shores.
WM–SINGULAR–121: O Music of the Fairies | Thiên Thai
Văn Cao's celebrated signature song, composed in 1941, soulistic transported to English in this cinematic Water-Moon verse-story opera, finds a new home in the West.
WM–SINGULAR–122: Nhớ Nhung | Longing for Whom
Thẩm Oánh's romantic song of longing and nostalgia, in the genre of pre-war music of Vietnam, beautifully presented by HDN, with subs in English provided by Water-Moon.
WM–SINGULAR–123: Nostalgia | Hoài Cảm
Cung Tiến's immensely popular song of nostalgia, in the genre of pre-war music of Vietnam, beautifully presented to the West in this Water-Moon nostalgic ballad of reverie and longing.
WM–SINGULAR–124: Scent of Yesteryear | Hương Xưa
Cung Tiến's famous classical song of reverie for the scent of a Vietnam of yesteryear, brought to the West through this Water-Moon nostalgic folk ballad.
WM–SINGULAR–125: The Music of the Piano | Tiếng Dương Cầm
Composer Văn Phụng's celebrated song about the music of the piano, brought to the West in this nostalgically sweet Fayland Maiden Rendition.
WM–SINGULAR–126: The Love Letters | Lá Thư – Đoàn Chuẩn & Từ Linh
I reminisce about an autumn years ago
when I wandered alone in the forests and rivers.
The autumn leaves fell and withered.
I reminisce about that day
when we walked together to the bridge.
You let down your long silky hair.
Where’s the Love now that was in our hearts then…
WM–SINGULAR–127: Áng Mây Chiều | Evening Clouds
Composer Dương Thiệu Tước's famous song of nostalgic reverie performed by HDN with Water-Moon English subs.
WM–SINGULAR–128: Evening Path | Đường Chiều
Songwriter Hồng Duyệt's signature song of nostalgic reverie, brought to the West in this Water-Moon presentation.
WM–SINGULAR–129: A World Apart | Hai Phương Trời Cách Biệt – Hoàng Trọng
Afternoon sunlight is fading
Sunset stirs my heart with wistful, faraway longing.
I will never, ever forget
The afternoon I heard you weeping … in my soul.
WM–SINGULAR–130: The Lover Without a Face | Người Tình Không Chân Dung
O you, the soldier who left the steel helmet on this mossy shore,
Where are you? Where are you now?
Are you still conquering high and deep mountain passes,
Or have you gone to the other side, to a world of endless dream.
On your head, the steel helmet once cradled the dreams of a man.
Original Song: Hoàng Trọng | Fayland Maiden Rendition
WM–SINGULAR–131: Spring Harbor | Bến Xuân – Văn Cao, Phạm Duy
My house rests by a bridge on the water.
You come visit me one day.
Flocks of forest birds gather,
all across the spring harbor.
Pairs of wings fluttering white,
singing in quiet delight:
U ú ù u ú
WM–SINGULAR–132: Don't Look At Me Anymore, My Love | Kiếp Nào Có Yêu Nhau
Don't look at me anymore, my love.
The youthful flower has faded,
The virginal fragrance is already gone.
Don't look at me, don't look at me anymore, my love.
The eyelids have closed, the lips have forgotten their smile.
You must have already forgotten me.
The autumn moon broke into two halves,
The birds flying in a distant, misty world...
Original Song: Phạm Duy & Minh Đức Hoài Trinh | A Water-Moon Presentation
WM–SINGULAR–133: Still Something to Remember | Còn Chút Gì Để Nhớ
Oh, Pleiku girl, with red lips and rosy cheeks
The evenings here feel like winter all-year-round
Your hair’s damp, your eyes glisten
So you are soft like the evening clouds…
The mountain town's high with low-hanging sky
The streets aren’t far, and hearts are close
A few minutes' walk and we're back to the old place
Oh – how I wish to lose myself for a long while.
Original Song: Phạm Duy & Vũ Hữu Định| A Water-Moon Presentation
WM–SINGULAR–134: Boat and Sea | Thuyền và Biển
Only the boat can truly know
how vast the sea can be.
Only the sea can truly tell
where the boat goes,
and where it returns.
On days they do not meet,
the sea turns silver with longing.
On days they do not meet,
the boat’s heart feels torn apart.
Original Song: Xuân Quỳnh | Fayland Maiden Rendition
WM–SINGULAR–135: The Thụy Du Song | Khúc Thụy Du
Let's talk about life
When I'm no longer among the living
What will I bring with me
To the world on the other side
Except for the void in my heart
O Thụy, O Love!
Original Song: Du Tử Lê | Fayland Baritone Rendition
WM–SINGULAR–136: The Rain in June | Tháng Sáu Trời Mưa
Your skin milky white, I don't need moonlight.
Your hair silky soft, I don't care for spring sunshine.
In this life, there's no longer any beauty.
Since I call your name "Loveliness"!
Original Song: Nguyên Sa & Hoàng Thanh Tâm | Fayland Maiden Rendition
WM–SINGULAR–137: Ivory Teardrops | Giọt Nước Mắt Ngà
Gazing at the drifting clouds,
Teardrops roll down… my cheeks in grief.
Pain tearing my lips
but my heart
still full of dreams and wishes…
Alas! The ivory teardrops… for my first love!...
…my first love…
…first love…
Original Song: Ngô Thụy Miên | Fayland Maiden Rendition
WM–SINGULAR–138: The Last Song of Remembrance | Niệm Khúc Cuối
Even if it rains daily,
I want to walk with you
till the end of life.
Even if dark clouds
or storms are gathering,
I long to be at your side.
Even if it's windy and biting cold,
or the roads muddied with snow,
even if the leaves are falling,
sad and desolate,
even if whatever...
whatever happens...,
I will still love you.
Original Song: Ngô Thụy Miên | Fayland Maiden Rendition
WM–SINGULAR–139: The Purple Horizon | Chân Trời Tím
You promise to take me
to the purple horizon.
To hear the wind
passing gently
through the heart
each sunset…
You just want this love of ours
to be like the stars
high up high… in the sky,
away from this… earthly world.
Original Song: Trần Thiện Thanh | Fayland Maiden Rendition
WM–SINGULAR–140: Student Flower | Hoa Học Trò
Do you still remember, my love?
I took the flower petal and pressed it on your cheek.
To make you beautiful like an angel.
But you didn't want to.
You're afraid of having to go to heaven.
You're afraid, afraid of having to go to heaven.
In heaven, we would be separated in different places.
Hence, you only wanted to live in this mortal world.
Original Song: Nhất Tuấn, Anh Bằng | Fayland Maiden Rendition
WM–SINGULAR–141: Keep Singing, Hương | Bài Hương Ca Vô Tận
Sing some more, Hương,
sing a sad song, sing a homeland melody.
Sing some more, Hương,
do sing again a farewell song for my journey.
Don't know how long the war will be,
this parting, if we're fortunate, will be soon over.
Sing some more, Hương,
sing while waiting for our return.
Original Song: Trầm Tử Thiêng | Fayland Baritone Rendition
WM–SINGULAR–142: Calling My Beloved | Gọi Người Yêu Dấu
A timeless song classic of romantic love, composed by songwriter Vũ Đức Nghiêm, brought to the West in this nostalgically sweet Fayland Maiden Rendition.
WM–SINGULAR–143: The Last Leaf | Chiếc Lá Cuối Cùng
Has night gone yet, that the sky’s already bright?-*
A flock of little birds
carries the coming season
on tiny wings in flight…
That autumn evening, I went to see her off...
Returning home, cold and lost in thought...
Leaves on the branches falling,
each one drifting far, far away...
Original Song: Tuấn Khanh | Fayland Baritone Rendition
WM–SINGULAR–144: A Soul in Love's Torment | Nửa Hồn Thương Đau
Phạm Đình Chương's famous song of heartbreak and lost love, written in the early 1970s, brought to the West in this intense operatic Water-Moon Baritone Edition.
WM–SINGULAR–145: Which Month Is It Now, My Love? | Bây Giờ Tháng Mấy
Which month is it now, my love?
The clouds drift serenely in the sky.
This evening, if you were not sulking,
or speaking words of blame,
we would not feel so lonely.
Original Song: Từ Công Phụng | Fayland Maiden Rendition
WM–SINGULAR–146: Love's Pain of Being Late for Each Other | Nỗi Đau Muộn Màng
Raindrops are tears
for a love
that’s fading...
Clouds drifting...
are the lingering regrets
of a time gone by...
You told me that you were happy,
but your eyes say otherwise.
Alas, my heart still cannot forget
the heartaches of those days...
Original Song: Ngô Thụy Miên | Fayland Maiden Rendition
WM–SINGULAR–147: You Come from Millennia Ago | Em Đến Từ Nghìn Xưa
I still see you
in a crowd of strangers,
for in your eyes
burns a tender love of life.
I still see you
in a crowd of strangers,
for in those eyes
live friendship and homeland.
Original Song: Trịnh Công Sơn | Fayland Maiden Rendition
WM–SINGULAR–148: Xin Còn Gọi Tên Nhau | Let's Still Call Each Other's Name
Trường Sa's famous love song, performed by the celebrated singer Lệ Thu in Vietnamese with English subtitles provided by Water-Moon.
The singing drifts through the streets with wistful feelings.
Weary footsteps yearning for a warm hearth in the cold evening.
Suddenly, I feel autumn all over the sky.
Is there still someone amidst the vastness of our lives?
The pain veils over our childhood.
WM–SINGULAR–149: Trăng Cam Ly | Moon of Cam Ly
Composed and performed by the celebrated musican-singer-actor Hùng Cường. With English subs provided by Water-Moon Poetry School.
By the stream, the autumn moon returns,
Soaring high above the whispering pines.
Mist descends, who lingers in sorrow?
Waiting in hope and longing.
Oh, Cam Ly stream, stirring my poetic soul,
Yet someone now indifferent to love.
That autumn, you left; I await your return.
Promising a future beautiful like a dream.
WM–SINGULAR–150: No Sunrise | Một Mình
The old familiar road, with love’s usual deceits
The path of love with a hundred jumbled threads,
Trying to find love within Life’s mess
Not many years left when our hair will turn silver
And by chance, if we should meet each other,
Only to feel like awkward strangers
Original Song: Lam Phương | Fayland Maiden Rendition
WM–SINGULAR–151: Hà Đông Silk Dress | Áo Lụa Hà Đông
Taking a stroll under Saigon's harsh sun,
the heat suddenly feels amiable,
because you are wearing the Hà Đông silk dress.
I still love that raiment so, so much
My verses still retain the purity of its white silkiness.
Original Verse: Nguyên Sa | Fayland Maiden Rendition
WM–SINGULAR–152: Dạ Cổ Hoài Lang | Hearing Night Drum, Longing for my Husband
Cao Văn Lầu's masterpiece – the song that launched the cải lương (Southern Vietnamese opera) genre. Performance by legendary singer Hương Lan, withWater-Moon English subs.
WM–SINGULAR–153: Debt Owed A Beauty | Nợ Với Giai Nhân
Oh, I owe a debt, a debt to beauty,
To the one who taught my soul to sing.
In every season’s quiet duty,
You are my lost and found spring.
I owe a debt, I can't repay—
Not in words, not in time, not today.
Original Verse: Phan Khâm | Fayland Baritone Rendition
WM–SINGULAR–154: A Refugee's Fairy Tale | Giấc Mơ Thần Tiên
There was a fairy who asked a refugee,
“What do you wish near the end of your life?”
I wish on waking up one late morning:
To see the terrace filled with bright sunshine
A window opening to the clear blue sky
Hearing the familiar sounds of birds chirping in the front yard
Original Verse: Cao Tần | Fayland Baritone Rendition
WM–SINGULAR–155: A Sad Homeland | Một Quê Hương Buồn
I seek the self that I was of the old days.
Through the high mountains and the misty seas faraway.
I seek the self that was so battered,
the true self, lost in this earthly world.
Original Verse: Nguyễn Minh Hải | Fayland Baritone Rendition
WM–SINGULAR–156: A Treasure-Hiding Place | Chỗ Giấu Kho Tàng
Look at our treasures, My Love
Under the park bench, I hid the time of youth
On the church’s top I hid Faith in God
In our old garden, I hid a time of Happiness
In your smile, I hid my heart!
My heart!
Original Verse: Cao Tần | Fayland Baritone Rendition
WM–SINGULAR–157: Autumn Love Song | Tình Ca Mùa Thu
I came to you in a windy evening
Your hair’s soft scent enchanted our first meeting
No words were said, but love shone in my eyes
A vision of beauty beneath autumn skies.
Original Verse: Uyên Thúy Lâm | Fayland Maiden Rendition
WM–SINGULAR–158: But I Still Thought... | Mà Sao Ta Cứ Ngỡ
But I still thought you'd return,
Like April on the wind.
Held my hands out to the sky,
To catch the dust again.
Held my hands out just to feel
The drifting ash of dreams —
But only silence, only sky,
Only dust that dances free.
Original Verse: Lê Văn Trước | Fayland Maiden Rendition
WM–SINGULAR–159: Cherry Blossoms and my Sweetheart | Ai Đẹp Hơn Ai?
Let the soft verses and vivid imagery take you on a romantic stroll beneath blooming skies.
Original Verse: Nhất Hùng | Fayland Maiden Rendition
WM–SINGULAR–160: But I Still Thought... | Mà Sao Ta Cứ Ngỡ
But I still thought you'd return,
Like April on the wind.
Held my hands out to the sky,
To catch the dust again.
Held my hands out just to feel
The drifting ash of dreams —
But only silence, only sky,
Only dust that dances free.
Original Verse: Lê Văn Trước | Fayland Maiden Rendition
WM–SINGULAR–161: Dawn of Returning Day | Bình Minh Ngày Trở Lại
Please let love be so true
like a peaceful morning for us two.
Thousands of sunrays sparkling
on the day of your return.
Love the greenness of the leaves.
We are together, just you and me.
…just you and me
Original Verse: Giọt Thu | Fayland Maiden Rendition
WM–SINGULAR–162: Day Returning to the Sea | Ngày Về Với Biển
Is the sea tonight rising with tumultuous waves?
The birdmarks of yesteryears had long been blown away.
On returning, I quietly seek out yesteryear's memories.
No signs were found in this ending autumn's day.
Original Verse: Phan Mạnh Thu | Fayland Maiden Rendition
WM–SINGULAR–163: Don't Let Love Fade Away | Đừng Phai Ân Tình
Like the friendship between the clouds and the wind,
Like the romance between the sailboat and the sea waves.
Even rock and pebbles, for thousands of years, still need each other.
Let our love remains alway sweet and enduring.
Original Verse: Bùi Kim Thảo | Fayland Maiden Rendition
WM–SINGULAR–164: Dream of Reunion | Mơ Giấc Tương Phùng
I dream of the day of return,
Shaking off the dreams of lakes and rivers,
Returning to the old garden,
To reclaim the moon of yesteryear.
Reliving the dreams of old:
Sâm and Thương stars, no longer apart.
By your side, I shall softly whisper:
Through the wandering days,
The heart remembers the way home.
Original Verse: Trần Hồ Dũng | Fayland Maiden Rendition
WM–SINGULAR–165: Empty a Cup of Dream | Cạn Chén Mơ
There’s a sound of a bird fading into the far distance.
There’s a season of red Jiracanda flowers suddenly forgotten.
There’s passions that no longer burn.
A few drops of sadness falling in the night.
Original Verse: Thiên Di | Fayland Maiden Rendition
WM–SINGULAR–166: Evening Melody | Cung Chiều
Our eyes have left each other for a while.
But a vision of you already in my soul.
I feel sad with longings...
No more is your sweet voice,
so gently soft and lighthearted.
No more are the moments
when we enjoy beautiful music together...
Original Song: Nguyễn Minh Châu | Fayland Duet Rendition
WM–SINGULAR–167: Fading Dreams | Nghe Giấc Mơ Phai
I always know that I build castles on sand:
Creating for my dreams a haven.
I keep wandering in search of shelter,
In a corner of your surprisingly desolate heart...
Original Song: Hoàng Uyển Văn | Fayland Maiden Rendition
WM–SINGULAR–168: For a Night of Poetry | Cho Một Đêm Thơ
After ten years, you return
Like a migrating bird seeking its roots
On seeing each other again,
tears in our eyes,
joy in our hearts,
talk flows with wine
into the night…
Original Song: Đặng Lệ Khánh | Fayland Maiden Rendition
WM–SINGULAR–169: Forty Years | Bốn Mươi Năm
Forty years, life has become exhausting.
Many dreams of youth but they all fade away.
Forty years of living in daily melancholy.
Feeling lost and rootless in a foreign city.
Even my shadow
on the evening street
seems out-of-place.
...out-of-place.
[extended sighing] ahhhh....
Original Song: Ngọc Long | Fayland Maiden Rendition
WM–SINGULAR–170: Gentle Sorrow | Dịu Buồn
Touching softly a corner of my heart,
Touching softly a corner of your heart,
Moments of stillness, simple and warm,
A fleeting breath outside of time.
Wish to be the tranquil night,
Embracing the path of moonlight.
Wish to be the silver-haired sea waves,
Chasing dreams for months and days.
Original Verse : Lưu Ly Thảo | A Water-Moon Presentation
WM–SINGULAR–171: Glass of Wine for my Heart Friend | Chung Rượu Tri Âm
Here’s a glass of wine for you, my heart friend, my love.
Let’s get intoxicated together, even if just for this one night.
Drink this glass, then another, with the moon's golden glow inside,
Emptying the bitterness and pain from our lives.
Original Verse : Thiên Di | A Water-Moon Presentation
WM–SINGULAR–172: If One Day... | Nếu Một Ngày
If you have feelings for another
Don’t bind yourself to me, darling,
with empty promises of forever.
Let us then say the parting words of “goodbye”,
although, the heart's silently weeping
tears won’t fall from my eyes.
I promise you: I won’t cry.
Original Verse : Phạm Thị Diệu Thu | A Water-Moon Presentation
WM–SINGULAR–173: Illusions | Ảo Ảnh
Is Life a verse or a flash of a dream?
A glorious morning or the night shadow falling?
A passing moment of picking on the guitar strings?
Is Life like the sea mist or the wandering clouds,
Or a touching moment of waiting in the evening?
Original Verse : Dương Vân Châu Trúc Ca | A Water-Moon Presentation
WM–SINGULAR–174: Ivory Keys and Silent Goodbyes | Giáo Đường Có Em
You left behind your girlhood grace
I walked away through memory’s haze
You wore nun’s robe of purest white
While I remained in worldly blight
The chapel bell began to cry
A prayer beneath the shattered sky
One whispered plea, one soul to bare
In that old church, you once knelt there
Original Verse : Hồng Hạnh | A Water-Moon Presentation
WM–SINGULAR–175: Love Fair | Chợ Tình
You went to the market this morning light,
Why not bring home a little love tonight?
Just a little cloud from the mountain skies,
To ease the ache of passing sighs.
Original Verse : Hoàng Uyển Văn | A Water-Moon Presentation
WM–SINGULAR–176: Love Story | Chuyện Tình
Chữ đã đi nghỉ sớm
Ý đang chạy vòng quanh
Đêm trải dài trước mắt
Nhớ, Buồn, nằm lặng thinh
Words have gone to rest.
Thoughts still run round and round.
A long night stretches ahead.
Sadness and longing lie in silence.
Original Verse : Đặng Lệ Khánh | A Water-Moon Bilingual Interleaved Presentation
WM–SINGULAR–177: My Exquisite Rose | Đóa Hồng Của Anh
You are the summer rain,
Washing over my pain,
Pouring life into my soul,
Making me newly whole.
You're a rose, so soft and shy,
Shining in the morning sky,
A bloom so rare I can't let go—
My heart just needs to let you know.
Original Verse : Nhung Trương | A Water-Moon Presentation
WM–SINGULAR–178: Night Waiting for Moonlight | Đợi Trăng
A wandering night with stars filling the sky,
Waiting and waiting for a voice, gentle like a lullaby.
Feeling sad, knowing that the wind had forgotten...
Through the night, sitting by the terrace, awaiting moonlight…
The autumn road not yet turned yellow,
The forest leaves still hang on the trees.
But my dream always so faraway
It's at the end of the Milky Way.
Original Verse : Mục Tú | A Water-Moon Presentation
WM–SINGULAR–179: One Evening Waiting for You to Come | Một Chiều Mong Em Đến
I hear, on the tree branches,
the leaves whispering to each other…
They sound like lovers
that have been separated for many seasons.
I hear on the gravel path
many footsteps coming and going.
I feel your soft footsteps
entering my forlorn soul.
Original Verse : Song Nhị | A Water-Moon Presentation
WM–SINGULAR–180: Perennial Leaves | Cánh Lá Thiên Thu
I stand alone in the vast unknown,
How to find the youth I once had known?
Amid the flood of sand and rain,
The sun returns, flowers bloom, then fade again.
Time flows on, an endless tide,
Life rushes past, we lose our guide.
We stray, we fall, we lose our way,
And sorrow lingers where dreams decay.
Original Verse : Nguyệt Lệ | A Water-Moon Presentation
WM–SINGULAR–181: Please Come Home, My Love | Về Đây Em
Please come home to find the old times
that gave us our wishes and dreams.
Please come home and find a world of poetry
to give us back a world of loving memories...
Our love still has a lot of affection
and life’s still full of growth and Hope.
Please come home, My Love...
Original Verse : Trịnh Nam Sơn | A Water-Moon Presentation
WM–SINGULAR–182: Return to Dream Harbor | Trở Về Bến Mơ
Feeling outcast in living an exile’s life,
your teardrops fall quietly at night.
You are like a lonely bird… far away from home.
I’m like a wandering cloud… floating to places unknown….
Original Verse : Phạm Thị Ngọc Lan | A Fayland Duet Rendition
WM–SINGULAR–183: Return Visit to Saigon | Về Thăm Lại Sài Gòn
O Saigon, days of gentle clouds,
Of áo dài floating through the crowds.
The laughter, songs, and schoolyard cheers,
Still echo softly through the years.
Now silence fills the alleys,
And those who were friends
Smile like strangers passing—
In a foreign land.
Original Verse : Yên Sơn | Fayland Maiden Rendition
WM–SINGULAR–184: Selfless | Vô Ngã
I feel sorrow for him, so alone in a distant sky.
The once soaring bird had broken its wings one night.
Dreams of adventure scattered in the chaotic wind.
Love for a hundred years, oh! Still a lingering fragrance!
Original Verse : Dung Hạ | Fayland Maiden Rendition
WM–SINGULAR–185: Sending You | Gởi Cho Em
I send you a bit of blue sky and white clouds,
the sound of birds singing in the early dawn,
the fragrance of sweet fruits and flowers,
through the messenger of dreams.
Original Verse : Quỳnh Hương | Fayland Maiden Rendition
WM–SINGULAR–186: Separated in a Dream | Anh và Tôi
You are like a gust of unfeeling wind,
passing by my heart leaving a deep sorrow.
You took the sunshine away when you left,
leaving clouds of rain in my soul.
Original Verse : Ngô Ái Loan | Fayland Maiden Rendition
WM–SINGULAR–187: Springtime Since Loving You | Mùa Xuân Yêu Em
Life’s been Spring since I found you, dear
Even Quảng’s rugged earth turned soft and clear
New buds whispered a gentle song
Of heaven’s love, where we belong
Original Verse : Thái Tú Hạp | A Water-Moon Presentation
WM–SINGULAR–188: Ten Years Apart, Ten Years of Longing | Mười Năm Tình Cũ
Ten years without seeing you,
I thought the love in my heart had faded—
Like drifting clouds,
I thought my love had been forgotten.
Like raindrops flying in the wind,
carrying away a sky of memories…
Original Verse : Trần Quảng Nam | Fayland Maiden Rendition
WM–SINGULAR–189: Thanh Tịnh Khúc | Serene Solitude
We’ll take a stroll amid the Milky Way's stars.
Leaving the earth behind with its fading sunset light.
If some day, love’s broken in the Empty Void,
can one still hear a forest bird,
that was I… in some previous life,
celebrating a song of love
and Nature’s delight?
Original Verse : Thái Tú Hạp | Fayland Maiden Rendition
WM–SINGULAR–190: The Four Seasons in Your Eyes | Bốn Mùa Trong Mắt Em
O darling girlfriend of mine,
In your eyes, I see springtime
with butterflies dancing amid flowers.
In your eyes, I also see the colors of summer,
golden sunrays shining on the treetops...
Lying on the grass,
I listen to the wind singing…
Original Song: Nguyễn Hoàng Phương | Fayland Maiden Rendition
WM–SINGULAR–191: The Immortal Flower | Hoa Bất Tử
Young like those old days with romantic love
‘Cause my dear friend, do you not know?
We had in ourselves: An Immortal Flower!
In Our Hearts… the Springs of Youth are Forever…
Original Verse : Phạm Thị Minh Hưng | Fayland Maiden Rendition
WM–SINGULAR–192: The Love Tree | Cây Tình Yêu
Nếu có về phố đá chiều nay
Trên dốc cũ, cây tình yêu vẫn đợi
If you return to the Stone Village this evening,
On the hillside, the Love Tree’s still waiting.
Original Verse : Hạnh Nguyễn | Water-Moon Bilingual Rendition
WM–SINGULAR–193: The New Millennium’s Hope | Hy Vọng 2000
The ball drops slowly with the counting.
Two million people enthusiatically shout “one… zero!”.
Thousands of fireworks explode in the sky.
Raining colorful messages wishing everyone “Happy New Year”.
Original Verse : Nguyễn Thị Ngọc Dung | A Water-Moon Presentation
WM–SINGULAR–194: The Road Home's Far & It's Wet Outside
Tonight, Time seems to stand still
To let the lovers be lost in a dream
The rain makes it difficult to say goodbye
Since the road home’s far and it’s wet outside
Original Verse : Đức Huy | A Water-Moon Presentation
WM–SINGULAR–195: There Is a Place... | Có Một Miền...
There is a place... with gentle and sparkling sunshine.
Where flora and dew drink the freshness of dawn’s early light.
There is a place... where people are open-hearted and honest
With simple wishes and dreams to strive for in their lives.
Original Verse : Lâm Băng Phương | A Water-Moon Presentation
WM–SINGULAR–196: Tình Như Ca Dao | Love Like a Folk Song
I offer you a spring blossom.
Dividing the petals between us just this once.
Climbing up the pomelo tree, I gaze at the sky.
Galloping horse shadow blending into the dusk light.
Original Verse : Huệ Thu | A Water-Moon Presentation
WM–TUENGA–197: Following the Clouds... | Mùa Xuân Thơ Dạo Non Bồng
Theo Mây, Thơ dạo non bồng
Một vùng ảo huyễn mênh mông cảnh trời
Theo Mây, ngàn Suối, ngàn Khơi
Tiếng Chim Lạ hót, đẹp thời Kinh Hoa.
Following the clouds,
Poetry strolls the celestial mountain.
An enchanting and vast sky
unfolds before one’s eyes.
WM–TUENGA–198: The River of Moonlight Streams | Từ Dòng Sông Trăng
In a river of moonlight streams
Thousand Flowers dwell in beautiful sleep…
Forget all sorrows of their fragile life, so brief.
WM–TUENGA–199: Whence I Ever Find | Tìm
Phút nào tôi chợt tìm tôi
Cái tôi ngơ ngẩn, cái tôi dại khờ
Cái tôi lạc lõng trong Thơ
Cái tôi câm lặng bơ vơ sầu dài…
Whence I ever find
My true I?
The self, ignorance,
The self, innocence,
The muted I, amiss everlasting sorrows,
The desolated I, wandering in the poetic dreamland.
WM–TUENGA–200: The Ancient Moon and Eternity | Dòng Cổ Nguyệt
Here, the Ancient Moon, since Eternity, ever shines,
Aspiring all – Be dreamers – with a dream to strive,
Where, in the mystic aeon – to find
The origin, pure Self of all Mankind?
WM–TUENGA–201: Chuyện Tình Chinh Phụ | Tale of a Soldier's Wife
WM–TUENGA–202: Ảo Phố | Illusion Town
WM–TUENGA–203: Zen Moon | Trăng Thiền
A Water-Moon bilingual interleaved soulistic transport from Tuệ Nga's Zen lushi poem.
WM–TUENGA–204: Heaven's Gate Shrouded in Smoke and Mist | Cửa Trời, Sương Khói, Khói Sương
WM–TUENGA–205: Bringing Mother’s Tender Affection Into Life
Mother's lullabies, sweet and tender,
like beautiful folk songs,
like the voices of rivers
flowing to the sea.
Blessed with mother’s love,
my soul drifts on the spring breeze.
WM–TUENGA–206: Moonlight Halo of Guanyin | Vầng Trăng Quán Thế Âm
O compassionate Mother, Great Compassion Mother,
Thou bring wondrous spiritual light into the world.
Saving all beings, rescuing all forms of life.
Thy robe, a white hue like the serene sky.
WM–TUENGA–207: Một Thoáng Tìm Mình
Lặng thầm, tôi lại tìm tôi
Tìm về cái thuở xa xôi... lặng tìm
Tên tôi ư, chưa có tên
Ba ngàn thế giới, mấy miền hoang sơ
WM–TUENGA–208: Homeland Longing on a Snowing Night | Quê Cũ Gọi Thầm Đêm Tuyết Rơi
She thought that Time would make the memories fade,
yet tonight the wind is singing an old, nostalgic song.
“O where to return? Where can this heart go?”
She gazes at the moon on the mountaintop—
her thoughts drift far away…
WM–TUENGA–209: Folding Hands, Reciting Buddha's Name | Chắp Tay Niệm Phật
WM–TUENGA–210: White Lotus | Bạch Liên
A Water-Moon adaptation of Tuệ Nga's lushi poem. Sung in Vietnamese and English.
WM–TUENGA–211: White Clouds of Exile | Tháng Tư Khúc Vạn Cổ Sầu
WM–TUENGA–212: Silent Rain | Âm Thầm Mưa
WM–TUENGA–213: Serene Realm of Fragrance | Miền Trầm Hương
WM–FAYLAND-214: Jade Pavillion Silklight | Kỳ Hoa
WM–FAYLAND-215: Lan Đình Thi Tự Ngạt Ngào Hương
WM–FAYLAND-216: The Moonbeam Smile & the Guzheng-Calligraphy Artist
WM–FAYLAND-217: Nụ Cười Tơ Trăng | The Moonbeam Smile