In life, three matters must be attended to

They are body, mind, intellect, measured over the months and years

The body must be kept healthy and strong

When walking steadily, needing nothing more

The intellect must study carefully

To avoid error, to avoid deviation, then worry lessens

The heart always thinking good things properly

Then it is warm clothes, full meals, all is well

When the three matters flow along

Business prospers, the tree of heaven blooms

Always take the initiative, do not blur

Then no one can get past you

Remember that being passive loses glory

Once glory is lost, the situation changes

Therefore, if you want to hold your head high

You must always take the initiative, be zealous in work

Now Danh, uncle's grandchild!

Remember how to live, strive to help the world

To please your father's heart, blooming fully

And your dear mother's soul, less adrift

Marriage is the main affair, always weighty

Only then peace and joy throughout life

The fate given by heaven, so accept it

When old with grey hair, think it over at leisure!

Mother and father now are a hundred

Day and night, luckily still eat and rest in peace

Suddenly, Thuý showed a gentle heart

Gave father, gave mother, five thousand, too much

Thuý said: money is for spending

House money, property money, so many things to pay

Electricity money, water money, [?]

Phone money, garbage money, TV too, plenty

The family all aims at spending

When parents need it, many things are ready at once

For Phùng Lê to have this,

Grace of the fairies, grace of ancestors, always protecting

Precious indeed is a loyal heart

Though busy with the little family, never forgetting the four risings

Filial piety, loyalty, propriety must arrive

As long as still alive is fortunate enough

Mother and father, that money is just to spend

Then eat, then rest, lying and sitting enjoying peace

The child's grace, filial heart overflowing

Later when apart, filled to the brim — remembered forever!

Remember who helped father

That precious Lê-Phung, helped the household so long

Now, Châu Dung takes the lead

By themselves, wholeheartedly, through the night helping the house

Girls and boys, absorbed in study

Succeeding brilliantly, the pride of Vietnam

Pray that someday the work

Of Châu, of Dung, benefits the land of the South

Hope that the dream is achieved

Achievement complete, fame fulfilled, Dung gives what the grandchild hopes

Reading news about our Vietnam

During the three days of Tết, so many stories!

Wounded, entering hospital day and night

Afterward the thousands are clear, today too many!

Six hundred, from alcohol, indicator

Drinking far too much, then immediately fighting!

That's not counting the ugly stories

Killing each other like frogs, so truly sad!

They say the husband even kills the wife!

They say the child too out of sorrow kills the father.

In some places, the grandchild kills even the grandmother!

In some places wild jealousy, the wife kills the husband!

Some places have it, some do not

Causing anger, tensing up and beating each other!

Reading the news, only feeling a headache

Pity for the fate, the country, of ours!

Hope that someone's soul is sacred

Come back and protect our country to be at peace!

There's news of a strange story today

A certain couple, today gave birth to twins

This time is the third time already

Each time one pair, two, fully complete

So they already have 6 children

And even stranger still, they even coincide

The hour of birth

A happy story instead of the country's pain

The future newly blooms good stories

A long story.

O lady, my old companion

Five years two months, the story of living together

So much hardship, misery, endured together

Eating together, drinking together, sharing blanket, mat and bed

Sometimes combing hair, looking in the mirror

Sometimes taking medicine, often loving and pondering

The heart's joy or sorrow depends

Depending on joyful unity, or on division

Remember when we passed that season's table,

The husband [?], the wife there refused to lie

Sometimes the wife cooks, that is care

Care at the kitchen, care in warming food

Sometimes the husband present there. instructing

Instructing to vent frustration, then eating the whole share

Sometimes life

hesitant

The future not yet clear, fate of life changes

Therefore life day and night

Both worrying and thinking, more heart-torn

So then don't think, just be done

Whenever we move then the heart stops worrying

After a long time, only now received a letter/poem

Reading it then understood, who'd have thought, grandfather's grandchild!

Let grandfather know your husband's name

Business, wishing well, life hoping day by day!

Girls and boys, how many children in hand?

Studying which grade, sooner or later, what do you think?

Your mother and father, how are they?

Business making money, are the wishes fulfilled?

Household affairs, [?] village, reputation

Keep them so the branches stay full and fresh!

Grandfather's house, eleven heads of people

Four boys, seven girls, fresh and harmonious

The family, all have established

Everyone has work that keeps them warm!

Boys and girls all help attentively

Also caring, filial gratitude clearly

Hope the grandchild becomes prosperous

The future bright, advancing farther each day!

Friend Công, my friend!

Tết past, did you enjoy life with wife and children?

At home, celebrating Tết completely

Or traveling, wife and children going along?

Peace, good health, living together

Is the most precious thing, living thriving, living happy

The little family, once settled

Parents must always come and go visiting

Smiling mouths, cheerful now and then

Gentle words, soft manner, is the lesson to follow

Even if must wade and cross the pass

Help father, help mother, follow along, filial too

Manner of speech, way of living, in general

Making the parents joyful together, more delighted

Hope for a peaceful life

Pray that Heaven and Buddha bless with lasting happiness

Dear grandchild, you study medicine

How can you cure the illness the family bears

For years grandmother's eyes have a film

Father too is troubled, half-done, hard to see

And aunt has crossed eyes, ears [?]

Or is it not knowing how to keep hygiene

Studying medicine, may you understand thoroughly

Hope that you can cure it to bring glory to the family