The thirteenth, Friday, has passed

Today is Saturday, a day of rest

The family does not go out carousing

Avoiding gambling places, avoiding drinking places.

Avoiding streets full of cars

Avoiding showy singing shows and crowds

At home turning on the machine, turning on the lights

To watch the news, to look at Bát-Tràng glaze

Who has lived for glory

Rendering merit, saving the country, saving the village, becoming famous

Which flower has bloomed on the branch

Which person's merit has become famous in the village

Hoping that everyone is prosperous

Drink and eat fully, the whole village all happy

Always progressing, never retreating

Always joyful and forgiving of luck and fate

Praying for the whole nation, all the people

Settled and content in work, helping one another

For a long time, silent, no news at all

Not knowing where the child lives, enjoys life where

So dad waits and hopes

The email dad sent, waiting through the night

Dad waits for a reply, a dream

Unexpectedly staying awake as dad hoped

So the child still has a good heart

But because of distance, not yet hoping to return

Be at ease, no need to shift about

Each task to its place, settled is better

Far away, don't let your heart wear thin

Keep healthy, joyful morning and evening

So both mother and father

Together in joyful living, are also delighted.

Heaven gave us a pair of feet

The feet in turn need us to pay attention

All life enduring the elements

Bearing the heavy body, complaining more too

Quickly bring oxygen day by day

The long road, no matter inside or out, whether spare

Naturally shortcomings pile up crowded

Sunlight, air, watched by day, awaited by night

So we should not ignore

Wholeheartedly care for them at rest time

Soak the feet in warm water, that's the advice

Remember to add a little salt, oh, to disinfect

Tendons, sole and toes all clean together

Then dry them, and rub on medicine

Compress the feet a while continuously

So blood keeps moving evenly for a time

Standing sitting, don't hesitate to massage

Then walk, in the house, barefoot

So the pair will look rosy

No more compressing and binding, watched by day awaited by night

So the dream is resolved

So, at peace, one sleeps a sound sleep

Looking at autumn, the heart feels tattered

Yellow leaves, falling everywhere, under the sky near and far

Birds go feeding far from home

All silent, wordless, my heart feels sad

The stove shows no smoke pouring out

Eateries still open are a source of comfort

Chatting for fun, no sound of music

Temples too are empty of precious sound.

Remembering loudly, talking of Paris

Enemy troops, bombs exploding, people dying by the hundreds

Wounded beyond counting, must lie down

Hospitals to treat them, months and years of waiting

So many at times awake, at times dreaming

Not yet knowing kin, who'd expect an unjust death

How to mend the broken seam

Those who survive, the homeland waits

Please don't turn away and ignore

Take care to help them reach the shore, reach the place

We all live together in this life

Write and share together, tattered and sad together

Forgiveness, remember it always

So that all are happy, that is the source of solace

Thanksgiving is nearly here

Thanh Phung reminds everyone, remember together

Thanks to heaven and earth in general

Thanks to ancestors who together built

Thanks to parents, abundantly

Thanks to the five precepts, relied on here and there

Thanks to the fallen soldiers, to the last hair

Thanks to friends who live and help each other

Thanks to those who were chosen

Helping the people, helping the country to prosperity

Grateful thanks to the spirits of the yin and yang realms

Helping in life, helping in death, all ways smooth

How rarely we get to meet each other

How rarely, friendly, poor and rich, we chat

Life's stories in every tone and mark

Then here, separated, the graceful ones part

When will we meet again, oh heaven

Brothers remember always the sweet gentle words

Wishing each other a peaceful life

Praying for one another, forgiveness and added words

Then together the ending is not yet wrong

Helping family, helping clan, the long days not forgotten

To mother and father, repaying the debt of gratitude

Brothers protecting each other, high and low in harmony

Happy as a tree when it blooms

Forgiveness above all, that is eternity.

Old age makes one think of mother and father

Father has passed away, mother is still here

But, at eighty-eight now

Strength is not good, arms and legs are weak

Everyone just wants to help

But all are busy, cannot sit or stand at ease

Thư Lễ arranges it right away

Living together, helping mother, the first needed thing

Precious is loyalty, precious is benevolence

How rarely, while alive, mortals help one another

If mother gains more longevity, more radiance

The whole family delighted, all before and after happy

Hooray for warm love, oh how precious

The bond of mother and child, standing sitting, brings honor

Missing home, ceaselessly, oh Bát Tràng!

Riverbank, mulberry fields, so brightly beautiful

Communal courtyard, stone embankment, such an estate

Grass fields, banyan tree, oh how I miss it!

Childhood, sober age, going to school

Womenfolk, carrying loads, truly an estate

Elders, teapots, together smoking pipes

Chanting composed verse, a few words.

For a long time no news of you, madam

Perhaps busy, so become silent

Or absorbed in matters old and new

Or the porcelain glaze rising and sinking, chased after

Or your husband haggling

Or the children whining all day

Or there's some bitter matter

Or old papers held in hand, remembering?

Or the white glaze not yet ready

Hoping you stay calm, the golden time will come

Thanks to you, madam, for taking the trouble to visit

Thanks to you for your greetings and words of inquiry

Your affection shows itself deep

Your heart has revealed years of constant remembering

Wishing you health always in the days to come

Wishing you happiness, long days free of worry

Praying you have favorable winds and a smooth crossing

Family happy and well-fed forever

Sports and exercise, oh madam

Practicing daily brings a hundredfold profit

The old body grows healthier, avoiding the years

No medicine to take, months and years appointed

Drive carefully to ease worry

Children and grandchildren, seeing this, warm the crossing, water flows

Wishing you joy standing and sitting

Joy in a healthy body, joy in a warm home

Practicing forgiveness, shared joy

Forgiveness through the years, put into practice

Life's many matters, why bother

A good heart within, nothing to fear

Living well, one is favored by heaven

Living kindly earns a good name, how precious!

Your age is the carefree age

Your age is the age when many maidens easily follow

Remember, if you want to row over the pass

Wrap your feet firmly lest you tumble into the marsh

Keep silent and quiet as if mute

Or else the wife will mince you up and eat you

Remembering each other, please a few words

Chatting, talking nonsense to ease the sorrow

Life's story is a story of upheavals

Family first, the foremost thing to worry about

Care properly for parents

Wife and children to provide for, warmth and plenty must be complete

Then go help the country and the land

Only then, mind at ease, less weary of waiting

Hoping your life is always rosy

Wishing you prosperity, that the nation may benefit

Seeing people travel, then follow along

Up mountains, down to the sea, over passes everywhere

Vietnam, Japan, under the sky

Some places too comfortable, some places suffering

The civilized are prosperous and rich

The ignorant are poor before and after

When will we learn to share

Study together, discuss together with each other

When will there be democracy to vote

When will the economy prosper front and back

When will minds know how to love

Love the people, love the country, place strength-love above

Forgiveness that brings lasting benefit

The name of a person worthy of being in this world

Live happily, live beautifully, oh everyone

The future, someday, heaven will help us.

Remembering who sponsored dad

Able to come to America, truly precious

War and disaster avoided at once

Family reunited, today so glad

Hawaii, having arrived, standing firm

Whoever bought ahead, resting right in Cali

Calculating this way and that, wise

Whoever has a house ready, avoids moving constantly

So the future is bright

Rest fully through the long days, decide later

Anniversaries and matters figured in the head

Helping parents avoid heartache

A place to eat and live, sorted out

Day and night caring, nothing better

Assured cheerfulness, singing and playing

Years of delight, remembering gratitude

So filial piety repays father's merit

So the debt to mother has been sacrifice

Thinking the child gives all their heart

Has helped fully those who bore and raised them

Now just rest in peace

For the child too is now old, no longer young

Old age gives mother white hair

Remembering gratitude to the child always, through the night

Loving the person, unable to help father

Unable to help mother, it's a private matter

Cận is in pain, kidneys sick and weary

Must lie down morning and night, private matters must halt

Two children are daughters truly born

Work too busy, not yet calm, not yet at peace

Hòa wants to plan and discuss

Lacking a trusted person, cannot yet share the sorrow

The sky is dark and dim, drizzling rain

There are many siblings, none lacking to help

Hoping for favorable wind and smooth crossing

So Hòa is less sad, less worried, less grieved

Praying heaven will always brighten

So Hòa and Cận become a source of comfort

Then the sky's cold season will end

Then heaven will pour away every sorrow

Someday Hòa will have no more worry

Security and prosperity as prayed and hoped

For a long time no news of you, madam

Surely too busy, so became silent.

The whole world is in a Golden Age

Everyone must find their way

Hoping you stand firm in your craft

In porcelain glaze technique you are the best

Household and business matters flow along

Husband and children help around, high and low

Whenever you think of the hero

Take out the paper to gaze, and joy comes at once

For you, to be so is to be a fairy

Praying you always live kindly with people

Our strength has gradually weakened

My wife constantly bemoans her lot and blames heaven

I have aches and pains, oh heaven

Day and night compressing, only then it eases

Death is already seen at the threshold

Not sure to enjoy more years of old age

Ninety-eight is nearly here, ah

Grandchild Minh, next-to-youngest, is about to visit

Hoping that walking, standing, eating, lying

Stays at peace and healthy, gentle through the years

Last week I was weak, I was in pain

Because of the skull on my head being injured

Day and night must bind, must compress

Must always take medicine to lean on old age

Always avoid walking, standing, going in and out

Just lie in one place to rest

Sometimes I thought I was already gone

Luckily children help ease everything

My wife, at times lucid, at times delirious

Making the household full of many worries

The sacred Buddha has helped remarkably

Eating and drinking returned, no more fretting

Children and grandchildren showed their loyal hearts

Coming to visit, filial piety complete, how few

We continue diligently

Keeping body, heart and mind, sons and daughters glad

Just hoping to fulfill our duty

Then the heart feels happy, the mind feels glad

Birthday flowers given, fragrant

From Công, sent to me, I'm so happy

Wishing you keep your capital, long-backed

Praying your good name resounds here and there

Wishing your family joyful together

Ancestors protect you to build the golden dream.

Leaving home, going to visit father

And visiting mother too, both equally old

Carrying ninety-eight years on the head

How many more years, the brass will be spent

Being near, recalling youthful years

Mother and father have helped it be complete until now

Meeting, only for a few days

Then must part and bid farewell

So many memories, remembering, yes

Then far apart, mind lingering, guts aching

Wishing the mind be of one hue

Always doing good, before and after keeping the heart

Live so as to be truly pure

Compassion and charity, nothing more to hope

Meeting misfortune, don't be resentful

Meeting luck, remember gratitude fully

Remember the five precepts that help us

Remember the debt to parents, also kin

Help the suffering, far and near

Help society, then the merit is complete.

Hearing you opened a shop

Selling cốm, selling porridge, put on the board, relied on

Guests praise it clean, not dirty

Food and drink, who'd expect all dishes

Boiled, stir-fried, fried, poached, all styles

Aroma wafting, the neighborhood knows at once

Want to eat grilled vermicelli or firm

Just wait a bit, don't be bothered

Bún riêu delicious beyond compare

Beef phở fragrant, doesn't leave you sitting

...beef long, why not swim

Grilled sausage, seeing it makes you crave, oh

Broth clear and sweet, eat then order more

The staff greet with soft words

Faces bright and adding a smile

Bà Lâm the owner, beautiful and fresh

Attentively serving guests, everyone praises

Showing that it's brighter than a lamp

Making effort to cultivate, a lotus pond fragrant

Today did the Buddha descend, or what

Phong Lê healthy, rosy, looking happy

Hygiene, injections all, wiped clean

No glasses, no cane, wisely nothing unusual

To the table, learning letters, laughing

Then exercise, who'd measure, not forgotten

Arms and legs really exercised on both sides

Cycling more too, the Buddha above blesses

Yet feeling no tiredness at all

Then eat, then drink, every dish goes down

Having eaten, find a place to sit

Watch films to content, to pass the time

A joyful day like a dream

Blessings from above, night awaits, day hopes

This blessing, remembered always in the heart

Perhaps the Buddha descended, hope fulfilled complete.

Looking at Minh, remembering the in-laws

Always joyful in life when a pair

Who'd expect he hastily passed on

Gazing at the moon, enjoying the breeze, living alone

In-law, sir, you have a sacred spirit

Please, sir, protect the household, wife and children

Day and night, remembering wearily

Your elder brother is still there, the slender one is gone

Whose body, widowed, oh how sad

Only devotedly, standing sitting, helping the children

Helping so it may be complete

Conscience delighted, the country is glad

Hoping you, sir, in the far realm

All year the soul healthy, standing sitting, the soul joyful.