Yesterday pressing acupoints on hands and feet,

Today the tea drunk is heavenly

how delightful.

What matters will come tomorrow?

How to know the give and take of life

Bà Nhi, beautiful fairy oh!

Let me know beforehand under this sky of Grass and Flowers

I now am already too old

How to gain more longevity

to enjoy heaven?

Heart pain requires much abstinence oh!

Drink little tea, sitting and standing too long

Coffee, quitting it is miraculous

Sports, exercise, sorrow and worry vanish at once

Reserve only a few minutes to check news

Or a few minutes to look at email

Remember that health is a talent

Must preserve must keep, don't err and suffer

Take medicine regularly, don't fear don't panic

Luckily measure blood pressure, situation is fine right away

Parents gave birth, resembling whom

Same ears, same eyes, same physical form

Born with a cry, first before all

Then guess whether it is right or wrong

become the father here, and the mother too

Phong Lê worn out, endured long years

Household folk, someone, pulled out

Tam Kỳ done, wrapped tight

Hoping stone would turn to diamond

Who knew stone turned to sand for building roads

So much labor of hoeing and harrowing

Why in a moment east and west fall to discord

Discord, losing both mother and father

Husband's love and wife's bond also cast away

Friends, what meaning is left

The heart of charity, whatever, let life be

Silent breath, hushed voice, adrift

Let others praise, let words of scorn be

Life's affairs are a whole problem

Steady heart firm will, should prop the bed

Hearing news of the earthquake in Indonesia

conveying the body

How many families still turning in turmoil

Living as if dead, needing to rely on all

collapsed, roofs fallen, houses gone

hot weather, still wind, flags fly

Wishing the international community come at once

Bring heart to rescue and aid those they rely on

Whoever meets the turn of fortune's time

Should also save, don't let it be too long

Hoping to give more aid

Praying Buddha saves through the night for those in need.

Uncle Hồ, sitting statue of himself

Solid gold, if needed, guess and see

The market, prices surely somewhat

How many hundred-millions shining light on the issue

Who buys, who gives, shifts about

the intention to help the trade of melting gold

Statue passed, land sold, silent

Now getting into trouble, cracks found

Wanting peace, leave the place change position

Let whoever is skilled take the place

Life, 100 years on earth

Why not stay to gradually benefit

Is it Đ.T. herself

Younger than Trang by four years like age

Wishing a fine life

Ngọc Hương became amid life with all still

then still fine

Mother and child now how well rounded

Wishing gentle and virtuous coming and going

life to another life as seen

Rest, why strain any more

Straining beyond strength surely makes the bottom hurt

Bottom hurt, tell Karma to take the head

Rub back and forth, hold the bridge, fish flap

Husband and wife don't think aimlessly

Only when agreed then supply

Praying to get a girl as wished

There is borrowing and repaying, deep gratitude Phạm Phụng

Thinking of heaven and earth turning

Human life too short, grudges and favors face off

Sorrow and joy at times full and empty

Pleasure and complaint often full of slander

Think straight of matters within the home

Father's love mother's love, vast and impermanent

love of siblings, the three bonds

So many conflicts, can one yield or not

At night, under the moon's light

Here the disadvantaged, speaking is superfluous

Daytime sometimes sun, sometimes rain

skin sometimes burning, sometimes cold and shivering

Meeting foolish times, don't flinch

Meeting leisure, still tend and cultivate

Work fills morning and noon

Working diligently meeting machines, not yet done

Cultivate the heart, know contentment within

Is joy is bliss, leisurely enjoying ease

Born bearing the buffalo zodiac

Working truly, eating falsely, enough to serve the world

Foreign wives married abundantly

One already lost, one broken and reunited

Three sons all dropped out of school

Grown up seeking work, then living apart

Regarding each other less than neighbors

No visits, no asking, no restraint

Not knowing if life has fresh laughter

Or is sickly, or a person despised

Father and child yet without affection

When grown old, glory and shame are gone

Helping husband, helping all the children

Truly thorough, no more to blame

Housework, office work on all sides

Everything in order, husband and wife harmonious

in harmony

On husband's side, mother's children, father's children

Still often visits and asks, truly capable

Praise the mother, clever Đoàn now

A mirror for those today

heartless

Regret that friends came to visit me

I was dreaming, in a deep sleep

When I have slept my full sleep

On the table I see grapes nicely wrapped

Asking, I learn it was you here

Came to visit and left grapes here

That day the price at the start

Praying I recover, Buddha at once